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Punching the services sector in the crotch over and over again until it gives up and magically returns to me the glorious era of mass manufacturing employment I mostly invented and automation has forever replaced.

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A re-industrialisation would probably require a currency devaluation (to make our manufacturing competitive) which nobody wants and looser planning and pollution rules which nobody wants and would require a relatively younger workforce which nobody has....and that is before automation.

The Labour Party’s fetishisation of jobs that require metal-bashing - often at the expense of what lots of us do in 2026 - is just one of their less attractive traits.

These were, apparently, the jobs of the people who founded the Unions and Labour. But if these jobs were so great, they wouldn't have needed the Unions or Labour...