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Deano! wrote:
> Er, well....of course I could. Its just that I'm concerned
> about that environment thingy.
Never heard of that. Is it important, or something?

But when most people think of
> Rollers they think of the classic early 60's Silver Cloud or
> similar rather than the ugly house brick design they have now.
... yeah, I think the Corniche was the last real beaut they built.


> ...Holden is a division of General Motors ....
What iS it about GM? ALL their cars seem so bloody ugly.
Couldn't they hire Pininfarina for a week or two?


> I am sure the Brits used to build reactors themselves.
Yeah- but they used to leak a bit : -)
Thass why people from Cumbria all have 12 toes and marry their
sisters.

Guilbert wrote:
> The labour party shut more mines than the tories did.
I didn't realise it was a competition.


> But every one seems to forget that.
Not me; but I remember that the Tories closed all the remainder
that Labour had made break-even.

The Tories, obviously.

A few well-run pits= survival; no mines = up shit creek.

Sadly we are more dependant than ever on imports and not just from the far east where production cost are much lower.
Why for example is it economic to import chicken and pork from Germany?

Generally world relations with the main supplying countries are good now but if that changes we could be deep in the brown & smelly.
Also as we have found recently we are very vulnerable to changes in the pound / dollar and pound / euro exchange rates.

Very few of the skilled and semi-skilled manufacturing jobs lost in the last 10 years have been replaced with others.
Most factory sites are replaced with warehousing / distribution, offices, retail parks or housing.