A poll (HERE) by ComRes seems to show we blame globalisation and what the report calls a backward-looking dislike of modern technology for many of our economic ills. And yet Liam Fox thinks we should be signing trade deals with the rest of the world in a huge increase in globalisation.
Trade is our Achilles heel and is surely connected with our appalling productivity which globalisation can only improve (witness the car industry as a great example).
At the same time a piece in The Sunday Times Business section this week says British industry expects to install about 1800 robots in 2016. This compares with more than twice this number for Spain and Italy and 20,000 for Germany. How do we expect to earn our living?
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