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clk's avatar

strong agree / great read.

You're correct that any talk of an industrial strategy is pointless with our current combo of high energy prices and Deliveroo Britain. But my only question would be how do we get lower energy prices (in a reasonable time frame) without large state intervention? Its a question I am stuck with :3

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Germany appears to have quite a productive smaller scale manufacturing capacity. One thing I understand they require is that all boards of a particular size have to have one employee representative and that this dissuades a Dyson-style move of moving production overseas. I also saw a chart recently (Twitter) on comparative numbers of robotic production levels by country. China - with relatively cheap labour costs anyway was miles ahead. The UK barely featured. This is also something that could benefit our productivity. Finally, I'd be interested in how Russia under heavy sanctions managed to massively increase its productive capacity and whether the chosen areas are producing very inferior products when considered on the global stage.

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