Quote Originally Posted by legs77 View Post
I always thought we would evently get by with or without Brexit.

What the pandemic has shown not just Europe but the world just how hopeless we really are and we have brought it on ourselves by selling off trades & outsourcing work over the years.

The PPE stuff being a prime example we had to go to Turkey to try and get this and we all saw the end result of that.

Of course the positive mind will say its a chance to rebuild but my concern is can we trust the people in charge ?
Absolutely. Once you lose the infrastructure and the trained staff, it's difficult to get back. Can you imagine how quickly the thousands of Hosiery workers that we, (Nottingham) have lost could have been reassigned into making PPE? I understand the financial reasons but it seems cheap is not always necessarily cheerful. If you look at most other European Countries, they still manufacture cars, they have railway systems that put ours to shame, why?