104mph cop keeps job -- The Simple Truth about Speeding from the Horse'sMouth

Debatable. Some would argue that Socialist policies in the 60s were
what killed British industry in the 80s.

In any case, the policies didn't save UK industry since it isn't here
now. Preserved it, maybe.

 

Ahaa!
Another tory admits Thatcher and her goblins were socialists

Doesn't matter who owns it as long as it is run efficiently. In this
area we lost 10000 manufacturing jobs out of a workforce of under
40000. All in a 10 year period under the tories.

 

So was that efficient or innefficient?

Problem is, if you're looking at economic 'efficiency' (whatever that
term means) people will probably focus on ROI or similar.

But, if the social and welfare costs (and the secondary impact) of those
kicked out of the privatised business to up the ROI is taken into
account (as it should be to get the whole picture) then the country is
possibly worse off.

So, maybe privatising a business allows it to run more efficiently at
the expense of the country as a whole.

 

We are still a world leader in car making, it's just that the Yanks and the
Germans own most of our top of the range marques.

 

It could be that a "posh" car is an instrument that is used by persons
possessed of a certain type of personality to project the impression
that they do not have extremely small genitalia and in no way are they
inferior to
other members of the species..
In other words, it's an ego-booster for the driver/owner of the vehicle.

 

How about "it is a car you wish you had, and they should be banned cos
you cannot afford one and you wish you had stuck in at school/worked
hard for"?

 

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Others would argue it was the development of new technologies and the
failure of British capital to keep up.

Like we need more industrial museums.

 

Or the refusal of the unions to accept the new technology because of
fears for jobs.

 

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Or the failure of both to realise there was a slightly larger picture
than ancient history and the short term future?

 

Which is probably the truth.

 

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Realisation of which is one of the steps on The Path. Oddly, it comes
before the fork which takes you to grumpy old git in one direction and
wise old sage in the other. Although I do think they are one and the
same thing just that the WOS has a better way with words.

 

Andy Bonwick wrote

No just limited in your thought processes.

They were. I mean how do you think it went from The Rocket to BR
without both the introduction of new technologies and the expansion of
the workforce?

So what about tabloid newspapers?

 

I suspect that you're confusing deliberate policy with incompetence
here.

 

Oooh, cunning!

 

Winston Churchillsaid:-
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to
see. "

 

Brimstone wrote

Who?

 

Perhaps that you should consider the quality of the content of said tabloids
rather than production quality.

 

Brimstone wrote

Stuff the content, anything less than folding it three times and your
finger goes straight through.

There is still no substitute for a fortnight old Sporting Pink

 

: All of Network Rail's profits are reinvested into maintaining and upgrading
: the rail infrastructure. By operating in this way, we create a safe and
: efficient rail network for everyone."
:
Sorry, sounds like a nationalised company to me!

 

Non-profit organic-investment == nationalised?

Who's your dealer?