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    The new order is worth £188 million overall which is a great boost to the Bombardier company and to the people there in Derby with skills to treasure. We mustnt lose those skills. However its only a small order in comparison to the order the current government placed with Siemens in Germany, which as I understand it was in the billion rather than million ballpark.

    The German economy is thriving because it held on to its manufacturing skills when it was unfashionable to do so..you name it and they build it. We have to hold on to our jobs and skills here by giving the contracts to our home grown organisations and skills. Lose those skills and you are out of the manufacturing arena for ever.

    Bob Crowe was on TV yesterday saying roughly the same...the Germans build 100% of their own railways, the Japanese 100% of their own railways, with France and Spain building 90% of their railways and so on...we mustnt give our jobs away..open tenders are good in one way in that they keep the price down but some compromise must be reached. We will be undercut by the emerging nations in the years ahead..so what happens then? Global market tendering could finish us, so there must be some degree of protectionism.

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