Slobodan, it would be fascinating penning a reply to your missive, but there is no point: you simply take everything I write and say it is something that it most certainly is not. Time - mine at least - is short.
There is no way forward in these circumstances: you just believe in one thing and I in another - just as with stamper and his Red Clyde political beliefs and my own, first-hand working experiences there in engineering in the mid-fifties, when there was still huge employment, and companies would visit schools seeking recruits after the final-year exam results came out. Memories of being loved...
I recognize the harm these left-wing, idealistic and impossible ideologies create; why there is no shipbuilding there now, no car industry, and how even the English Midlands became an engineering desert beholden to a few remaining US branch-factories and, irony of ironies, to Tata, an Indian engineering giant for their very survival. (They also own much of the tea in the cuppas.) Oh, the Chinese bought the once-famous MG marque... I'm told they have also acquired Sunseeker, the foremost luxury-yacht builders we had. The latter reminds me of the letter posted here recently about the party drinking in the pub, and the ratio in which the tab got split. The rich guy eventually moved away when they beat him up out of gratitude for doing most of the paying... now they don't drink very much - they just sit around talking revolution. Or back on the Clyde, nationalism. Smaller is stronger. Obviously, nobody spent much time in the schoolyard
Just to pre-empt further accusations of my famous, alleged xenophobia: we owe the Japanese a debt of gratitude for having accepted special incentives to create car factories oop north; I also own non-British camera equipment, but then, who doesn't?
;-)
Rob C