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The largest petrochemical centre in Europe was in Teesside with international investors and operators.
All of the UK petrochemical companies were there too. Private businesses.
They didn’t require subsidies, but paid for power and steel and other commodities at market rates, accounting for 100,000+ quality UK jobs across the supply chain and playing a major part in UK exports.
Anything associated with the “North” of England, never mind the IMF restrictions, which funds were propping up underperforming nationalised industries like British Steel, were “tarred with the same brush” as mining and the “War on the Unions”.
The vast majority of British heavy industry was dismantled by the 1990’s.
Communities and countries become less vibrant when there are no jobs for skilled craftsmen to do, processing local, natural resources. What Lady Thatcher did was deeply shortsighted.
Blair however, with very different intentions to Lady Thatcher, saw an opportunity to tie the UK forever to the scrofulous international institutions, undermining UK sovereignty at every step, leading us into this terminal downward spiral of lowest common denominator thinking resulting in a miasma of mediocrity.
If the UK doesn’t reindustrialise and reclaim its sovereignty both externally and internally economically it will be finished in the early 2030’s and culturally by the early 2040’s.
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