The news that Cadbury has been taken over by Kraft is yet another nail in our national coffin.
Terry's of York was taken over and all jobs moved to Eastern Europe.
These big multinational firms have no allegience to Britain and after they have taken over British companies, in spite of all reassurances jobs flow out of the country.
But what is the difference this time?
The government is concerned and seeks reassurances from Kraft about the future of Cadbury.
Yesterday on Radio 4 Geoffrey Robinson (he of Mandelson mortgage fame) said he was worried about the numbers of British firms being taken over by foreigners ant thought it should be slowed down.
We have lost Cars, Steel, Power generation, Water, Gas, Railways,Glass, Nuclear and many others.
We have few industries to sell off now. It's no use saying it should be resisted now.
Tony Blair bragged that Downing Street water and power was supplied by foreign firms.
So they have been quite happy to see vital industries sold off abroad in the past but they worry about Chocolate?
I do not denigrate Cadbury and sympathise with the workers AT PRESENT employed by them but why is chocolate more important than all the other vital industries listed above?.
Robinson said it was difficult and we should not be protectionist in "the global economy"
I agree. We have to compete internationally and the govenment should arrange business taxes and regulations so that we can do so, BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN SELLING OUR COMPANIES ABROAD.
We should ban the sale of British companies to foreign owners for the sake of our future.
Can you imagine the Germans allowing Mercedes or Bosch being sold abroad?
We have to make things to pay our way out of the debt this and the last government has bequeathed us.
But we have nothing left to sell and most of our productive capacity is owned by firms to whom profit is more important than Britain. This sorry state is the fault of both Labour and the Tories influenced by their international banker sponsors.
It will be a hard slog to recover and unfortunately things will get much worse before they improve.
The British people will not know what hit them in a few months.
If we get in power we know the perpetrators of this rape of our industry.
I hope we make them pay the price.
