New BBC series: "Made in Britain"
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Really interesting, but found it far too much like a government propaganda film, made to provide feel-good motivation for those that think there's no jobs or wonder what's happened to our once-great manufacturing base.
There was a clear, unbalanced agenda there.
So, a few jobs have been replaced here for the suit firm that sent manufacturing abroad and we saw a warehouse manager and some logistics workers. They might have shown how the other 90% of factory operatives fared.
McClaren - good technology selling a few high-value units to the mega rich. So what? A handful of people getting rich, supplying to a handful of other rich people.
The emphasis was clearly on high value/low volume being desirable and the economic benefits that goes with it. The corresponding negatives, ie the social aspects were never even mentioned.
Having said that, I'm not of the opinion that we should maintain a high cost, labour intensive manufacturing base, which we all know will end in closedown and redundancy anyhow. But a balanced view of what has/is happening would have kept me happy. I'm mindful that there are many who are perhaps going to be swayed by what the writers/editors wanted to say.
There was a clear, unbalanced agenda there.
So, a few jobs have been replaced here for the suit firm that sent manufacturing abroad and we saw a warehouse manager and some logistics workers. They might have shown how the other 90% of factory operatives fared.
McClaren - good technology selling a few high-value units to the mega rich. So what? A handful of people getting rich, supplying to a handful of other rich people.
The emphasis was clearly on high value/low volume being desirable and the economic benefits that goes with it. The corresponding negatives, ie the social aspects were never even mentioned.
Having said that, I'm not of the opinion that we should maintain a high cost, labour intensive manufacturing base, which we all know will end in closedown and redundancy anyhow. But a balanced view of what has/is happening would have kept me happy. I'm mindful that there are many who are perhaps going to be swayed by what the writers/editors wanted to say.
grahame
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iPlayer to the rescue
I thought it was pretty good, but missed out on one of the key future issues - the impact of rising fuel and other transportation costs on geographically wide supply chains - ie the sell local/make local/buy local argument that is largely behind Nissan, Toyota and Honda's decisions to base manufacture in the UK for cars to be sold in Western Europe.
I thought it was pretty good, but missed out on one of the key future issues - the impact of rising fuel and other transportation costs on geographically wide supply chains - ie the sell local/make local/buy local argument that is largely behind Nissan, Toyota and Honda's decisions to base manufacture in the UK for cars to be sold in Western Europe.
