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The number of people employed in manufacturing in the U.K. is at its highest level since September 2008.Originally Posted by lardy
https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/emp...a01jun2019.xls
Click on tab 6 and the numbers employed in each sector are tabulated.
In 1978, we made stuff. Nearly 7m out of a 42m working population were in manufacturing.
In 2019, 2.7m out of a 53m working population were in manufacturing.
We make a lot less than we used to.
It's now about 7% of jobs. In 2008 it was 10% of jobs. How much bigger will it have to become, and how quickly, for us to start fending for ourselves and buying British?
It's nearly the 2020s. We have to start thinking of the world in the 2020s and not how it was in the past. The days of countries manufacturing all their own stuff are gone. If we try it we'll get destroyed by the countries who have hundreds of millions of low paid workers. It really doesn't matter if we like the way the world is, or if we close our eyes and Back Britain with all our might. I daresay the majority of workers in the 18th century didn't like the Industrial Revolution and wanted to go back to living on their farm with their family and not in a dirty smelly tiny house while working 14 hours in a dirty smelly massive factory, but the world changed and you either change too or get left behind.
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