FAO andy222 - Letter in the Belfast Newsletter re Comrade Milliband & Co

[andy222]

Reality...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-Thatcher.html

Its a simple answer really if you think about it. Thatcher did that much damage to manufacturing and like as been said selling off our resources there is no way back and there never will be.It would cost too much money to get those things back. By the way we all know Blair was useless. If you dont make it you cant export it. Its not rocket science.

[Dedworth]

Its a simple answer really if you think about it. Thatcher did that much damage to manufacturing and like as been said selling off our resources there is no way back and there never will be.It would cost too much money to get those things back. By the way we all know Blair was useless. If you dont make it you cant export it. Its not rocket science.

From the article

Manufacturing accounted for more than 20 per cent of the economy in 1997, the year Labour came to power. But by 2007, that share had declined to 12.4 per cent.

That is far steeper than the fall under Lady Thatcher, when its share of the economy fell from 25.8 per cent to 22.5 per cent.