Britain For Sale.

[Jim Brady]

Branston pickle this week the latest British food firm to be gobbled up by a foreign company.The Great British institutions are evaporating fast what we grew up with no longer belong to us.
Rolls Royce German.
Weetabix Chinese
Cadbury Kraft (US) now transfered to Poland
Newcastle Brown Ale. Dutch
Jaguar Land Rover. India.
Boots the Chemist Swiss
Raleigh. Dutch
Robertsons (The gollly on the jar) US
Asda US
I think that I am correct in saying that HP sauce has also left the UK for the continent.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Frederick Lacey]

Hi Jim, Re HP, picked up 3 different sizes of HP sauce some time ago in Morrisons, each one from different countries, Holland, Poland & Spain.

Don't forget MG....China.

Fred.

[Captain Kong]

British Steel including Corus, went to the Indians and Thais.
BAA airports went to the French
Our Power Companies went to Europeans, EDF French, Eon German or French, including others.
British Airways now half Spanish.
Some of the Railway Companies owned by Johnny Foreigner, such as Germany and French.
Dyson transferred production in Philipines,
Dannymac production transferred in Philipines,
.
This week Ford has stopped production of the Ford Transit in Southampton. and sent it to Europe, 500 jobs lost.
When a Company transferrs its production overseas then the Government should BAN the imports of that product.
Cant make it here then dont sell it here. Hit them in the wallet.
As Rosita said, "No Pay, No play".
Branston Pickle and Sarsons Vinegar went to the Japanese this week.

[happy daze john in oz]

Not peculiar to Uk, same thing has been going on here in Oz for years. Main reason, it is cheaper to produce overseas and many of the big companies can see a dollar by buying up the companies and sending them off shore.

[Tony Wilding]

i can remember when MADE IN ENGLAND or MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN meant something, Dockside Cranes and Locomotives all over the World.

[John Pruden]

EMPIRE MADE??JP

[Ivan Cloherty]

Tony I am the result of an Irish father and an English mother, and when I asked her what nationality I was she replied "Well the tool may have been Irish but you were made in England"

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi Shipmates, The Iron Lady sold the famuly sliver many years ago, and all the factorys were shipped abroad to cheap wage countries , like our merchant navy and The coal mines closed down , So today we are owned by multi national big business companys and Mega rich people ,And most of the power and rules we live by come from the E.U. The U.K. is now only a outdated backwater the dumping ground for Europe .

[Captain Kong]

British Businesses being shipped overseas was all sorted in the United Nations for the `NEW WORLD ORDER`. and then we signed up to the `LIMA AGREEMENT`,
Ask your MP what it is all about, I bet they dont even know, they are too absorbed in petty party politics.
Not too sure which Politician signed us up to it. This was in 1975.
This meant that we had to give our Industries to the Third world countries such as India and China.
The reason for China was.... If China was getting all our businesses then its massive population would be employed and earning money, that would keep them quiet and it would also prevent China going to war. So That is the price of peace. Not a lot of people know that.
It wasnt Maggie as PM, , that closed the mines and sold off the businesses it was the way of the world that we had to subscribe to. she was under orders, she did not come to power until 4 years after the AGREEMENT.
Britain is lying on top of an island of solid coal, but our biggest supplier of coal is now Russia followed by Poland. So that helps to keep the Russians quiet. So that is the way we now keep from having WW3.
But no one told the Islamics,
Brian

[Capt Bill Davies]

were shipped abroad to cheap wage countries , like our merchant navy and .

Louis,

I don't know where you get this from. The bottom line is we have to be competitive. Nostalgia and sentiments have no part in this.

Brgds

Bill