EU membership has made it easy for foreign companies to buy up British manufacturing industry.
British businesses owned by foreign companies tend to be the first to be closed in an economic down turn.
Most other countries show much more economic patriotism and protect their industry against foreign take-overs.
Britain's lack of economic patriotism has led to much of Britain's manufacturing industry being destroyed.
S HALDEN Park North, Swindon
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