The UK bet its future on being open to trade generations ago, and this has intensified as the UK's economy has been engineered into a focus on services rather than manufacturing; so when supply chains are disrupted prices rise & supplies are constrained.
The US/Israeli attack(s) on Iran are now having a wide range of disruptive effects as we know, but the latest to be identified as a potential problem is medicines.... that might be pretty serious!
@ChrisMayLA6 Without causing arguments....
My memory of this is that it wasn't just an economic push toward less manufacturing. It was also a green push, away from our previous 'Dirty Old Man of Europe' gig.
Whether any of it was correct is kind of moot now.
Our politics runs on short term-ist philosophies. Expect a short term, not thought through, ultimately wrong 'solution'.
Hmmm.... I'm going to say the shift away from manufacturing preceded the green push, but it may well have latterly played a role?
I understand and I am angry about it all too. But we are here now. How can we go forward when we can't even agree that bees are worth saving or people deserve peace?
I'm at the point where I want concrete change.
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
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