Yes Prime Minister, but it is also investment, investment, investment

The author argues that, once again in the UK, those occupied in wealth creation, using science and engineering to produce the things that people need and want for a better life, a process otherwise known as manufacturing, have been pushed to the edge of an economic recession. Things may not be so bad as the wholesale destruction of the cut-and-burn days of the early 1980s, nor so severe as the later 1980s and early 1990s when the ´establishment´ attempted to hold Sterling to an unsustainable exchange rate, but they are bad enough.