I had a look at your source and I still can't tell if it is measuring billions of pounds, or something else, and I can't tell if it is adjusted for inflation.
Is it just that it's there and I've missed it, or is it simply not there?
Maybe the person who put it on his website copied it from somewhere else, and doesn't know.
Micilin said:It is easier and cheaper to sack a British worker than a German one.
Measures the volume of production at base year prices for the manufacturing, mining and quarrying and energy supply industries"
"Energy Supply" is definitely not manufacturing, even if you decide that mining and quarrying are.
Or am I looking at the wrong description, and this is just the manufacturing subset?
That was essentially the point.
Now where are they fitted in mainstream desktops and laptops?
yep lets all moan about the government doing it while we stock our own homes with appliances from abroad because they are a better price and on the whole reliable. How many of you are using a british computer filled with british made bits to moan?
I-pod
I-pad
HP Servers
A great number of smart phones.
Good find.
Now where are they fitted in mainstream desktops and laptops?
That was essentially the point.
So the future of general motors most productive plant in ellesmere port is decided on the 28th its up against the less produtive german factory however the german goverment fight hand and fist to keep manufacturing in their own country so R.I.P Ellesmere port because most if not all of the people in vauxhalls plant havnt come from Eton and dont have a silver spoon in their mouth so im afraid that Dave "were all in this together" wont be intrested.
Works Council. Empowered by law and entitled to a seat on the Board.there was representation from the german plants , not union members but a sort of company workers representers
Good find.
Now where are they fitted in mainstream desktops and laptops?
That was essentially the point.
Sorry they don't manufacture anything, they design only and others manufacture and install them in ALL the computers ipods and mobile phones etc. their profit last year was £6b, not bad for a company that doesn't actually make anything.
Steve Jobs unveils $7bn profit in second-quarter results amid hints the next version of iPhone will be released in September
The reason for the decline in UK manufacturing was the strikes in the 70s and 80s.