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bucolic_frolic

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4. Isolated, and manufacturing collapsed.

Reply to Jacson6 (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2026, 02:35 PM

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Like Reagan, Thatcher was about finance and deregulation. So the jobs went overseas. It's been said German and Japanese engineering is better than UK. You need a knowledge base and innovation to manufacture much of anything.

That there UK is what the US will be like in 20 years thanks to Trump.

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Britain has become a broken, poverty-riddled 'living nightmare' 7.30 [View all] Jacson6 Monday OP

As projected from Brexit. Turbineguy Monday #1

Same in the U.S. de-regulating the capitalists produces an increase in poverty. ShazamIam Monday #2

but did they get rid of them forreners? pansypoo53219 Monday #3

They did not! VMA131Marine Monday #8

Isolated, and manufacturing collapsed. bucolic_frolic Monday #4

20 years? my bet is 1 or 2 years. ret5hd Monday #6

Thanks Nigel! no_hypocrisy Monday #5

The crazy thing is the Trump/Putin loving Nigel Farage who sold them Brexit on a tissue of lies is ahead in the polls. Doodley Monday #7

The pro-Brexit people are like a broken record VMA131Marine Monday #9

Looking at Farage & Reform Smilo Monday #10

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