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Did you see this at all?
BBC - BBC Two Programmes - Made in Britain

Fascinating stuff, and made interesting viewing.

In a nutshell, it dispensed with the myth of the loss of large scale volume manufacturing such as textiles etc, as more revenue is actually derived from design (done in the UK) marketing, advertising and purchasing. The least profitable portion, the manufacturing element is farmed out to developing economies, who can afford to pay workers tuppence hapenney for basic lowskilled jobs.

Instead we have transitioned to high value low volume manufacturing, such as defence, aircraft which has a much more specialised and upskilled workforce.

Although the conclusions were we don't have enough high value manufacturing to pay for imports, it's a step in the right direction.

Must admit, made me think about some of the stereo type manufacturing myths. Do we really want a factory full of thousands of women earning pennies, or do we want to be upskilling our work force (and dumping benefits )

So the disruption, I wonder what the post strike analysis is? Anything actually achieved other than creating a "them and us" public/private tension?

Seeing images of tie wearing geography and maths teachers made it hard to visualise direct comparisons with burly 1970's Leyland production line workers, but it does show the Unions still wield a lot of power, even without widespread public support.

Ok, so decided to put a toe in the water and try out this +1 button.

Have added it to our directory homepage, and also business listings.

Looks a bit bare at the moment, I have a grand total of one +1.. me
www.mylocalservices.co.uk

Ok, so it's that time of year when our former colonial cousins remind us that they booted us out of America (with the help of the French... boo hiss) by having a day off, saluting each other and letting off lots of fireworks.

So happy Independence Day to any US members, and just to let you know you owe us 250 years corporation back tax, I've found a clause that says you forget to sign the transfer papers

Nice results, pretty much confirms what we have been saying for a while, online businesses need to have and provide some customer support.

Well at least in the UK we are top of the food chain!

Haven't heard anything about this. No wonder Cyprus is worrying, 10% Corp tax!

Location: Shanghai,China

Guessing thats unlikely

Moved you to our Google+ thread

Yep do like the circles idea, looks they are coming out with a few good ideas, and reacting to peoples weariness over farmville rubbish and suchlike

Just need it to go live so we can have a proper look...

I think some of the public sector needs a wake up call. I do sympathise with things like teachers and nurses pay, cutting benefits of frontline troops makes me angry, but there must be ways to introduce some private sector commercial mentality and hunger into some of the administration side of the civil service. For strong management, there has to be huge opportunities for efficiency savings, automation, cleaning out deadwood thats going through the motions and awaiting retirement.

The job for life mentality and unsustainable benefits needs to change, the private sector learnt this a long time ago. Any passengers can be let off at the next station...