Manufacture, Manufacture, Manufacture - The Way to Ensure British Jobs

Design, build and test aerpolanes, computers, mobile phones, anything electronic, hospital equipment, cameras, telephone exchanges, our own internet, cars, hosiery machinery, textile manufacturing machinery, domestic equipment - you name it, the British people can make it and sell it.  WE ONCE DID and we can do it again. But successive governments have let us down by allowing our industries to be sold off.  So what are you going to do about manufacturing CORBYN  and JOHNSON? 

Sixty years ago I was a graduate apprentice working in a research lab owned by Associated Electrical Industries in Rugby. I was operating a high frequency induction machine drawing rods of silicon crystals from molten metal. The crystals were then cut into slices, doped with n-type or p-type chemicals for manufacture of power rectifiers to be used on electric trains, producing d.c. for the drive motors.

Shortly after, I worked for GEC on the logic design of telephone exhanges.  Chips with a few transistors were beginning to used.  This was the start of a technological revolution, leading to the manufacture in the UK of large scale integrated circuits used in computers and microprocessors.  This work was done by UK companies such as Ferranti in Manchester.  

So where has all our manufacturing  gone to Mr Corbyn and Mr Johnson?