Retrieving the American flag - live on SKY.

[Dryce]

The Bentley and Rolls Royce factories are thankfully still both with us. As well as their employees.

RR cars were irrelevant.

RR PLC OTOH is a jewel. Much derided by the City in the 90s because of the long term nature of the business. These days the share price is well up on where it was a couple of years ago.

 

[MD5]

The chubby Americans and their flag worship thing is not something we should copy.

How about cars and user names?

 

[Dryce]

Did not a German company buy the British car factory, run it into the ground and cause it to be exported to China?

ISTR that a major British defence and aerospace company took on the car company - prevaricated - sold it off to an overoptimistic German company that then messed it up a bit on its mainstream products - and then it was bought out by its British management who managed to make quite a bit of money out of it while it ran into the ground.

Maybe if the City of London actually invested in real tangible stuff in this country we'd have seen some better outcomes and a more balanced economy. But no, the City seems to swill with money but turns away from the rest of the UK economy that actually makes stuff.

 

[st4]

Typical MBclub thread

 

[pipmk]

The problem with signs and symbols such as flags or religion is that some people will use them to justify actions which cannot have moral justification. Making people feel "insiders" with these symbols means other must be outsiders. It is then easy to slip to "therefore less", less worthy , less human.

 

[markjay]

The problem with signs and symbols such as flags or religion is that some people will use them to justify actions which cannot have moral justification. Making people feel "insiders" with these symbols means other must be outsiders. It is then easy to slip to "therefore less", less worthy , less human.

But that's human nature, and also how civilised societies work.

Your immediate family is more importance to you than anyone else.

Then you larger family, you townsfolk, your countrymen... no?

That by itself does not stop us from being kind and considerate to each other. A vile person will always find a reason or excuse - we will not cure him/her by hiding the flags.