Tata... bought mfg in UK,
UK can't 'sell' to India, (surprise), India is keeping UK 'finance and retailing' out (bogey of protectionism),
about all UK has left to try, feebly, to export. Kind of pathetic really.
Sound familiar?
Original 'home' of laissez faire.
Here's an antidote: call it perhaps 'managed trade' or mercantilist trade.
May seem dated, but...
"As General Monck put it with military directness in demanding a renewal of war against the Dutch in 1662: ‘What matters this or that reason? What we want is more of the trade the Dutch now have.’ Trade meant wealth, wealth enabled one to wage war, war made possible yet more trade: who could resist the lure of this logic?”
“The British Way In Warfare: A Reappraisal”, The Causes Of War, Harvard, 1983.
('SMART SHOPPER' MISE EN SCENE FOR A CARTOON')
Caption above: ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP:
Conversation bubble from within the hummer:
"Is that a market I see there, in the hazy distance?", TRYING TO FIND WITH GPS, ETC., IN A CONSUMER Hummer, in the foreground.
(No. SURPRISE, it's an enemy camp! Flame throwers on shopper Hummer......., aftermath image at right....)
Caption below right: FIRE SALE
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