Re-industrialisation

Britain is facing an historic opportunity to re industrialise. This is the shifting of our economy back to a manufacturing base of mass production in heavy industries. However, we are not having a national debate about this. Many people are either still stuck in that frame of mind that the UK cannot made make anything or is doomed because of Brexit, the aftereffects of Covid and Trump and the rise of China. Whilst China’s rise is certainly an event for the history books her rise is built on the back of a consumer base in the west.

If every consumer in the UK stopped buying products from China and bought from the UK instead and if this was also the case across western economies then China would become less powerful economically.

The UK is the nation that invented the idea of mass production and was the first nation to industrialise. However, our whole infrastructure has deteriorated. If we were to return to any form of re-industrialisation, we would need to invest in our infrastructure. Our railways are the most expensive to run per mile than another
country! They are poorly run and poorly serviced with a lack of re-investment to keep them efficient. Our motorways suffer from the same fate and so do roads in towns and cities.

Our current economic model which is built around services (mostly financial services and insurance) does not need infrastructure to run effectively. Our population needs
to be involved in making things we can’t all be service employees!

The Government needs to actively and urgently look at options to create a plan to re-industrialise. They are saying a lot about but little about manufacturing and making things. Growth will only come from producing things. We call on them for an on-going debate in Parliament on how to re-industrialise this Country. We
need to stop importing cheap finished goods from China and make our own.

Contrary to what the Chancellor Rachael Reeves says, Buying British in Britain will not make us an inward-looking nation. When you shop look for the Made in Britain logo! We must all do our bit!