tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552303056662924649.post598810996085961930..comments2017-07-10T21:05:39.554+01:00Comments on Martin Wingfield: Thoroughly deserved recognitionMartin Wingfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14219217662313871409noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552303056662924649.post-9385538867742126522008-07-17T17:33:00.000+01:002008-07-17T17:33:00.000+01:00Thanks, MartinRe: industry foreign-owned, this is ...Thanks, Martin<BR/><BR/>Re: industry foreign-owned, this is exactly what has happened here on Teesside, where what was ICI and British Steel is now run by overseas CEOs, including Turks at one point.<BR/><BR/>Yes, the jobs are still there and ICI may or may not have been the most 'nationalistic' of employers, or the most benevolent but at least everything was in-house.<BR/><BR/>The present situation is a recipe for great uncertainty, as you point out.<BR/><BR/>If anything, what is more alarming is the transfer of ownership of our public utilities to foreign companies/businesses, e.g. the French (EDF) and the Germans. <BR/><BR/>The Deutsche Bank part-owns Northumbrian Water, or did.<BR/><BR/>With all that water in Keildor Reservoir part-owned by the Germans, Hermann Goering would be rubbing his hands if he could.<BR/><BR/>Arguably, the Party's greatest challenge on coming to power, after ditching the EU 'golden garrotte' and expelling Islam, will be the reclamation and regeneration of Britain's industries, both public and private - a lot of high-paid managers will be bound to resist.<BR/><BR/>Likewise, a big fight will start with the 'greenies' when the Party, rightly, seeks to rejuvenate coal-based power production and takes a serious look at the limits of wind farms, which are basically an expensive, inefficient eyesore.alanoreihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12013953165470026155noreply@blogger.com