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  I propose the motion that Mary Portas is A Good Thing.
  
  While too many Britons appear to think and act like scavengers on some Politically Correct, Third World rubbish mountain, tamely accepting our post-industrial, apolitical malaise and cynically scheming to get one up in the abysmal new order, this feisty redhead wants to - shock, horror - rebuild our industrial base and our High Streets. A country that makes things and where people share a common purpose. Remember that?
  
  There is a term in German for this outlook - "Die heile Welt". Before someone makes some predictable, lame Nazi joke, "heil" is from the same root as "hale", "neahtly" and "whole" - "The healthy world" would be an approximate translation.
  
  Utopia? I don't believe so. To listen to some of our politicians you would think we lived in a world where there were fewer goods manufactured than 30 years ago. We do not live in a post-industrial world - just a post-industrial country, where the opiate of cheap credit and the financial services bubble masked the abject state of the country. past tense. The chickens are coming home to roost and we need to realise how much we have lost and act before it is too late.

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