29th July 2018

Yesterday was the weekly BBC Radio 4 question/answer programme about topical news items. On the inevitable discussion about Brexit, at last views were given on whether the UK can survive on its own.  Some people are already stockpiling food(!) whilst others talked about bringing back our long-lost British manufacturing industries. From childhood, I recall world class British trademarks like Rolls Royce, Bentley, Land Rover, plus jewellery, cutlery, pottery, Axminster, Wilton, Cadbury’s, the wool and cotton industries etc. Some marks still exist, of course, but are sadly now owned or made elsewhere. Would it be so difficult to reinstate such factories and buy back the original brand names that our forefathers worked so hard to establish? Think of all that British goodwill over many decades, now lost. Couldn’t we at least emulate the French in charging less insurance for home-grown products, thereby reinforcing the impetus to buy British? Sounds like war time spirit all over again. Him indoors says even that’s probably made by the Chinese. Enough to drive a man to drink..