Quote: DaveO "You are not making any sense. Rolls Royce doesn't have comparable competitors in Germany, France and Italy making aero engines in terms of the value they add to manufacturing economy. Therefore in order for these countries to be ahead of ours on output they have to get it from other sources of manufacturing. And you have to have your head buried deep in the sand not to see this is plainly true given they are, as I pointed out, much stronger in other areas such as rolling stock manufacture.
Because they are different statistics. In terms of output we ARE behind Germany, Italy and France because that is what the first one of those two stats tells you.'"
the value you add is the value you add. that's it. why are you insisting on cherry picking what should and shouldn't be included. so what if we don't manufacture as much rolling stock as them?
Quote: DaveO "no manufacturing industry in comparison to the likes to Germany and France'"
this statement is clearly crap.
in fact, the only thing your stats show, is how the labour party destroyed british industry.
