Gordon Brown's mask slips "she's a very bigoted woman"

[wednesday1]

The UK is the 7th largest manufacturing nation on the planet.

 

In 1997 it was 6th.

 

 

What position did we occupy in 1979?

[Tony]

Right now there will be some disgusting Labour wonk digging up anything that looks like evidence that Gillian Duffy is a bigot and that Gordon was right.

 

Mrs Duffy might think better of taking any country walks for a week or two.

[L00b]

What about the shipbuilding industry, the tubemakers, railway rolling stock manufacturers and locomotive builders, the commercial vehicle manufacturers.,the machine tool makers.........................................many, many more.

Regardless of what the Cons did or didn't in the 80s, Indians, South Africans and Chinese out-competed any UK players in any of these fields by the mid-90s anyway, if only due to the cost differential.

 

Indians, South Africans and Chinese would only have out-competed them later on (but still out-competed them) if the loss of competitivity allegedly at the hands of the Cons hadn't taken place.

 

The main factor you should be looking at, is UK companies inadequately compensating for foreign technological catch-up over time. That's usually down to lack of investment, lack of vision, or both. And not much at all to do with political interference (save perhaps as that which relates to the strength of the £).

[Tony]

What position did we occupy in 1979?

I believe that the UK was 7th or 8th.

[alandrea0]

bigot - a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own.

 

When you consider the meaning of Bigot, I would say ALL politicians are Bigots!

[Kingmaker2]

It's certainly a blunder that Gordon Brown could do without, although I don't think this one incident is going to swing it for the voters, that's just media propaganda.

 

In fact the more the media seek to make issue of this incident the more it might actually firm up Labour support, remember the dead soldier's letter fiasco?

Far from damaging Gordon Brown, it actually helped him, as most saw this as a media driven story, the same might happen here if the media continue to make play of this story.

 

Remember Bush comment's that he uttered which were broadcast on tv when he thought he was off mic, when speaking to Cheney, "

 

Bush:"There's Adam Clmer, major-league asshole from The New York Times."

Cheney replies: "oh yeah, he is big time"

 

That Faux Pas didn't do Bush & Cheney any harm.....they got elected in twice after that!

[wednesday1]

I believe that the UK was 7th or 8th.

 

 

I believe that you are wrong!

[Bedders]

BL was one case.

 

What about the shipbuilding industry, the tubemakers, railway rolling stock manufacturers and locomotive builders, the commercial vehicle manufacturers.,the machine tool makers.........................................many, many more.

Th Cons destroyed the lot.

Thatcher used to deride all these types of proper industry as 'smokestack' and skewed the economy in to one of property speculation and sharedealing and making the 'fast buck'. What a disaster.

 

What's Labour's excuse then?

 

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=495281&in_page_id=2

 

If Thatcher was trying to bring these industries down, how are Tony / Gordon to answer for their (worse) actions in how they have treat & managed manufacturing?..... I'm all ears!

[Bedders]

Originally posted by Tony:-I believe that the UK was 7th or 8th.

 

I believe that you are wrong!

 

Do you think that is anything to do with the fact that all the country was being ground to a halt under Labour & the attempted communist / marxist revoloution? Try 1978's figures as well whilst you are at it!!!!

[Tony]

He can believe what he likes.

 

What do you think Damien McBride, Tom Watson, and Derek Draper's gang are up to right now?

 

Do you reckon that they will be digging around for some half **** nonsense to smear Gillian Duffy? Surely his ilk won't care if they ruin a pensioners life if they can hang on to a few extra votes?