Cadbury & Manufacturing

At this month’s Full Council Meeting, there was a full debate on the threatened takeover of Cadbury’s by Kraft.

What was most annoying was the fact that throughout the whole debate, only two speakers had ANY experience of working in a manufacturing environment and I was one of them.
The wannabe MP’s from both The Conservative Party and The Lib-Dems rambled on and on about the demise of manufacturing, the current economic downturn and so on.
What no one mentioned was that when Mrs Thatcher took charge of this country in 1979, manufacturing accounted for 22% of GDP, when Tony Blair took on the reins, it had dropped to 10% and last year EVEN after the downturn, was still at 11% GDP.
That is Good Fiscal Management.