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The UK is giving up on its industrial production capabilities. I saw a National Grid document not too long ago talking about how their infrastructure plans invo
by makomk 6y ago
The UK is giving up on its industrial production capabilities. I saw a National Grid document not too long ago talking about how their infrastructure plans involve downscaling the grid capacity up North as it comes up for replacement, including outright removing lines, because it was built to support industrt that no longer exists in the country. In general, there's just not the political will to actually make things here, and the press tends to push the narrative that anyone who thinks we should is stuck in the past.
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoFinancial services doesn't help, it's such a large part of our economy that it tends to suppress other sectors. It's our form of Dutch disease. Brexit adds to the pressure, we are likely to lose most of our car production over the next decade.
- youngtaff 6y agoI think even without Brexit we were likely to lose most of our car production over the next decade, but with Brexit I can't see manufacturers retooling plants to build new models in the UK Electrification does make cars simpler so perhaps there's still some scope for someone
- pjc50 6y ago> In general, there's just not the political will to actually make things here, and the press tends to push the narrative that anyone who thinks we should is stuck in the past. We make a surprising amount of high-tech stuff, but it tends to be bespoke and expensive or very automated. Mass employment manufacturing is down to a few car plants owned by Nissan and Honda whose future is in doubt over Brexit. This is partly due to terrible industrial relations in the 1970s and 80s.