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Right you are, Tom! Last night I overlooked the last sentence in the link's article; in fact, the lost skills topic is very concerning.
My economic programme does include training courses for all essential skills at local and national level and the re-introduction of our lost industries.
This would involve local economic boards communicating with each other at national level to bring back the lost production in textiles, electronics and so much more, and to distribute the production nationwide on a fair basis.
For example, not just in the South East of England, but from Skara Brae in Orkney to Dover in Kent, covering the whole length of our common Island(s).
These economic boards at local level would introduce training courses and ensure factories are built/rented/purchased, and the machinery supplied for production. Private-enterprise participation is welcome, but not essential.
One condition in the project is that no existing sphere of British production would be shoved out of the market, and no attempt would be made to curtail future free enterprise expansion in Britain once these economic spheres of production were re-embedded and re-established.
But an initial State involvement at the level of Central and Local Government would be inevitable just to start the programme and get it on track.
Barry calls this all "communism", and says that no-one should interfere with free enterprise.
Question is: WHAT free enterprise, when we have hardly any left, and the skills are missing?