Time for a global level economic playing field

I BELIEVE there is an answer to comments made by Liberal Democrat Jeremy Browne when he mutters about there being no God-given right to a decent living in Britain.

Firstly, industrialists in this country sold many years ago – and cheaply – manufacturing plants and know-how to many countries, including the Asian continent. This included car manufacturing, albeit what we couldn’t be bothered to make competitive, and older designs of tractors, also many important smaller manufacturing products and platforms for the economic growth of other countries. All to workforces whose wages are well below that of our own in Britain.

Yes, Mr Browne, we do have too much in this country. Our souls are being destroyed by greed, jealousy, malicious behaviour and less than benevolent attitudes to one another, but within this unholy mix resides the broken backs and hearts of the genuine working poor and the frequently unemployed who operate in revolving door agency work with no prospect in sight of a British industrial job.

Mr Browne should have the intelligence to consider a level world economic playing field as we hear so much of globalisation, a world where worker pay equality operated in latitude and longtitude and the wage proceeds thereafter could buy roughly the basic necessities of a sustainable life, namely housing wage equivalent to rent, manageable mortgaged property, cheaper social service costs and, in some cases, food costs.