One million manufacturing jobs lost

Tony Blair has to be the worst leader in the history of British leaders. The Guardian has reported that the manufacturing sector's share of the economy has fallen by almost 30% since Labour came to power in 1997 and now contributes only half as much to output as financial and business services.

The latest official data shows that the manufacturing sector has diminished in importance in every year between 1998 and 2003, with an especially sharp decline following the global recession in the early years of this century.

With output from Britain's factories stagnating during Tony Blair's period in Downing Street and the economy growing by 2-3% a year on average, manufacturing's share of the economy has dropped from just over 21% in 1997 to just under 15% in 2003, the latest year for which the Office for National Statistics has data.

Since Labour came to power in May 1997, around a million jobs have been lost from the manufacturing sector.

Can Blair get anymore incompetant? Blair has watched the demise of our manufacturing industry and the losses of around a million jobs. Britain once had one of the best manufacturing industries in the world but successive Labour and Conservative governments have destroyed all that.

It is time for Blair to go and allow a leader with ability to lead us as Blair just doesn't have what it takes to lead us.