Whilst on the bus home earlier (note, we left town at the same time as a cyclist. Guess who got home first.? Yuuuup the fat dude on the push bike, hmmmmm) anywho, I noticed some young scallywag wandering alone the pavement wearing a t-shirt with the slogan “Made In England” emblazoned across it. Now, aside from the very obvious irony that the chances are it was stitched lovingly together in a sweat shop in Pakistan, can anyone else spot something there that sounds wrong.???
As your little grey cells slowly start to recognise where I am going, let me just save time and tell you. We don’t actually make anything any more. This once great land (uh oh I hear you cry, it’s another patriotic message from that Bunny dude) started the industrial revolution. The railway, jet propulsion, cruise liners, the battleship, the heavy bomber, computers they were all invented in Britain. Now what do we make.? Sod all, that’s what. And why.???
Because our lovely leaders have seen fit to make us into one of those lands where everything is soooo complicated and expensive that it is far easier to do things in “less restrictive” countries and ship everything in. Hands up how many of you drive a British car. Well apart from my dad that is about it (and his is a 1974 MGBGT so not exactly a new car). Now they are all built in the far east and washed ashore here on big ships.
Between VAT, income tax and the ludicrous Health and Safety laws it has ripped the heart out of quality Britain manufacturing. Here is a good example of the HSE taking the piss (and forcing insurance companies to make unreasonable demands). At work we usually store stock (in cardboard boxes) underneath our stairs, next to the main distribution boards for our electricity supply. We have done this for the past three decades to no complaints from anywhere, even fire inspectors. Now we have been told that we cannot store stuff there UNLESS it is placed on shelving. That is metal shelving but without backs to the shelves, so the boxes would still be exposed to “sudden sparks from the electricity in the event of a short circuit somewhere”. See how sodding stupid that is.!!!
And now the Germans want to split our country up into bits so places like Dover would actually be “in” France (not physically obviously, it would take way too long to ship all those illegal immigrants back to the mainland where they bloody come from).!!!
Once again we slip just a little bit closer to losing our national identity.
And as for the guy wearing the t-shirt. He looked like he had been made in Bridgwater…
…Or Rooksbridge.