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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: River Don on October 07, 2010, 10:15:29 am

Title: The Betrayal of British Engineering
Post by: River Don on October 07, 2010, 10:15:29 am

News this morning that Eurostar have put in a big order for new trains. Where do you think they going to be built then? Some low wage South East Asian country we can't possibly compete with? China?

Nope, Germany. :angry:

Of course the French are very upset they haven't continued ordering theirs. As for places like Doncaster and Crewe, well it's just a crying shame isn't it?

Title: Re:The Betrayal of British Engineering
Post by: LuckyGirl on October 07, 2010, 02:30:56 pm

This is the result of 'privatisation' and allowing 'market forces' to rule.

I seem to remeber being made redundant from the railway as they cut jobs to make it more saleable.

Doncaster, Crewe, Bletchley (now a lovely supermarket) and doubtless other locations have been sacrificed in the fight against 'nationalisation' ........

........ Haven't many of us heard it before?????

Divide and conquer.