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Originally posted by jjrodger
He's right: the unions destroyed British manufacturing industry. Now they're setting out to destroy British service industry: witness the recent BA fiasco.
The workers were so contemptuous of their employers that they built cars badly almost with deliberation. One dealer recounts how when he removed interior door trims, he would regularly find sandwich wrappers and empty cans of fizzy pop stuffed inside the door, put there by the workers out of sheer destructive contempt.
There is no doubt that Britain had great designers, engineers and inventors, but our manufacturers were stuffed by the stupidity of union socialism. Frankly they all deserve to be rotting on the dole.
Thank goodness for Margaret Thatcher.
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That's a pretty extreme opinion. There is another side to the destruction of the British car industry, as you ought to know..that of management sending out cars they knew to be faulty so the dealers could sort them out later, for example. A relative of mine worked for British Leyland - he found that their machine tools were so worn the couldn't even be calibrated - hence poor quality output. This was down squarely to zero investment and bad management.
Margaret Thatcher? Oh come on..and anyway, you have Tony Blair now, not much difference, bit glossier perhaps!