Uk manufacturing17 Oct 2025 13:19
Unfortunately the clever British public voted in a Labour government the very same government that presided over the financial crisis in 2008, the tech boom and bust in 2000/1, weapons of mass disappearance, selling our gold reserves at their lowest price, empty property rates so that empty business properties end up with their roof removed to avoid the rates never to be contributing to uk tax again -- then all the very recent blunders like putting up NIC just at the time where small businesses are struggling, inheritance tax for farmers so farms end up not viable and having to be sold off for buttons to wealthy tax dodgers from London.
Why do we tolerate them? We are like turkeys voting for Xmas.
If I had a viable business in the uk I'd take it somewhere else.
If I had shares in IQE ( I once did but a long time ago ) I'd sell immediately.