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To: Impala64ssa

You sorta have to wonder why the British government destroyed it’s auto industry, but they’ve trashed their entire country, so...


7 posted on 02/03/2018 10:54:32 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: jonascord
You sorta have to wonder why the British government destroyed it’s auto industry, but they’ve trashed their entire country, so...

Unions.

14 posted on 02/04/2018 12:58:54 AM PST by Ace's Dad (BTW, "Ace" is now Captain Ace. But only when I'm bragging about my airline pilot son!)
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UK taxes were 90 percent back in those days.
Recall the country was still coming out of post-war rationing.


19 posted on 02/04/2018 6:07:28 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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