Maurice Dixon:
Perhaps because UK hasn't had and still doesn't have real industrial strategies. Also, too many decades, as a dogma and mantra of 'market forces must dominate policy', successive UK government have allowed all its best IT companies to be bought by foreigners that then get saddled with buyers financial problems, profits exported, UK tax payments reduced through accountancy manipulations, pensions raided or poorly funded, etc - a loss, loss scenario for UK plc and national industrial capability?
Would you consider it to be the result of a succession of 'unpatriotic' governments when it comes to infrastructure and strategic industries?
I have long suggested that what is needed as an alternative to the economic policy that has prevailed since 1979 is not a government based on socialism but one based on nationalism. Basically a government that is a respectable version of the BNP!
Has the EU been instrumental at eroding away engineering in Britain since 1979? The IET campaigned for Remain back in 2016 but would there be potentially better opportunities to revive strategic industries after Britain has left the EU?
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