{"id":407,"date":"2010-09-26T16:37:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T16:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.projectsguru.co.uk\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2010-09-26T16:37:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T16:37:40","slug":"ed-tell-us-what-you-will-do-for-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Ed – tell us what you will do for manufacturing ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now that Ed Miliband has being elected Leader of the Labour Party perhaps we should expect some real policies to revive the U.K manufacturing<\/a> industry.\u00a0 Ed has mentioned “broadening the industrial base” but there is precious little on the official Labour Party website to illustrate what this means.<\/p>\n

The last Labour Government presided over the biggest decline in manufacturing industry EVER ! from 28% GDP in 1996 to a pathetic 10% in 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“So what ?” you may ask.<\/p>\n

Well, manufacturing is important for the following reasons:-<\/p>\n

1) Jobs tend to be higher paid than those in administrative rolls.<\/p>\n

2) Every job in manufacturing creates 10 others in the Supply Chain.<\/p>\n

3) Products manufactured in the U.K generate important foreign income and reduce the trade deficit.<\/p>\n

4) Making things generates a sense of self worth and pride.<\/p>\n

5) Manufacturing provides valuable Tax revenue.<\/p>\n

If we seriously want to reduce the current account deficit and claw our way out of recession we need some real policies to revive the manufacturing sector based on new product development<\/a> and innovation.<\/p>\n

So Ed – tell us what you will do for manufacturing ?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

chris@projectsguru.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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