How Just One Mistake Destroyed Birmingham
151K views · Apr 27, 2026 · Education
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@toastin7878 · 5 months ago
Imagine a government destroying its own manufacturing industry, along with British companies and the livelihoods of its people.
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@chrissmith2114 · 5 months ago
Other countries cherish their industry, while Britain demonizes ours...
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@johndownes2509 · 5 months ago
You could build a factory anywhere you liked except near your existing plant. This is soviet planning. It's no surprise it didn't work.
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@pringlel · 4 months ago
Sadly, I fear this is a metaphor for the whole country.
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@theheadlessguitarplayer6761 · 5 months ago
One day, people in the UK will wake up and realise that whichever team they consider to be ‘their team’, none of them acts in the best interest of anyone other than themselves.
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@carlb4741 · 5 months ago
This should be shown on national tv
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@glasscity3104 · 5 months ago
Maybe London was secretly afraid that eventually the Midlands would overtake London in population and influence.
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@MERISI001 · 5 months ago
Our manufacturing power house completely wrecked by social engineering.
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@Gordon-u9e · 5 months ago
A deliberate act of industrial sabotage by the British Government of the day, utterly shameful !!
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@Dino-1958 · 5 months ago
I worked for GKN in Birmingham in 1974, such a shame to see how the Midlands success was sabotaged by our own country's government. It's all gone now, I left the Midlands as I realised it was finished as a powerhouse of industry.🤔
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@punjabimundaUK · 5 months ago
Similarly a councillor in Bradford in the 60s card Mr Wardley destroyed half the city centre for so called modernisation. He had great victorian buildings pulled down
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