Neat trick eh? Buy a tyre company, move it abroad and the folks back home have to pay the import costs and duty. The former employees are now out of work, there is the negative trade balance, which lowers the value of the pound and everything that is imported costs more. Do that to enough UK manufacturers and what do you know? Everything (almost) is made in China and the country's jobs and wealth has been exported. This not a party political rant as they have all been guilty. No political party is prepared to stand up for UK jobs and the UK economy. Eventually we will become poorer and poorer as the economy is based on "taking in each others washing" a.k.a. service industries. None of that explains why I really do not like "Bridgestones".
