> When the current government came into power I imagined they would do whatever they could to rescue that situation. What on earth led you to believe that? No

> When the current government came into power I imagined they would do whatever they could to rescue that situation. What on earth led you to believe that? Nothing that any British government of recent vintage has actually done supports it. They seem to be utterly uninterested in UK based manufacturing and what little is left is mostly owned by foreign entities. The same goes for service industries such as rail where ideology prevents long term state ownership but only if the state in question is the UK. See for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB_Cargo_UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB_Cargo_UK which describes a British rail freight company wholly owned by Deutsche Bahn which is wholly owned by the German Federal government. I don't mean that DB is necessarily bad for either the company in question or the UK but it seems odd that so much of that sort of thing seems to happen in the UK but seems less popular in other countries.