During 1976 under the Queen of the Conservatives Margaret Thatcher, the Government agreed to change the UK from a manufacturing nation which required higher investment in its workforce into a one designed to simply look after the residents of the UK by becoming a ‘Service Industry Nation’.
Immediately, the ‘white van man’ was born, filling all on street parking space every night and at weekends officially beginning the deindustrialisation of the UK through whole industry closures, offshoring, job selling and social housing stock giveaways to ensure those who heard her cry like the sirens who used their beautiful voices and songs to enchant sailors and control their fate ‘having the debt of a mortgage over their heads will nail in the change Britain needs’.
Time has moved on and investors now need the cheapened over decades UK labour force to engage once again with manufacturing and the ‘New Tories’ who have failed to offer workers attractive packages to reopen industry are having to resort to attacking the poor and infirm to form those workforces, forget about farmer’s needs to feed our nation on local produce and concentrate on money as Britain did in the 1820’s or so economic history book inform us.
It’s doomed to failure and the British public know it is as the stagflation of those who felt success from the white van world and have cash to leave their children do not want their families to enter the universe of drudgery as offered to workers in the US to become a defining factor in the Britain of today.
Those same conservative investors in office who are trying to ply the trade of the pre Thatcher 1960’s have proved in the 2020’s that the two tier society, extended over the last 13 years is no longer wanted and a period of catching up through designed change for the better is now required and this week’s local elections have begun to spell out what the sort of change people want and need is no longer supported by the Conservatives in office.
So to end where we began, why is Britain still using Gross Domestic Product to measure success? Let’s hope the next incumbents of both Government and Local Government can design an alternative which suits our society in a modern UK better!
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