{"id":182678,"date":"2010-01-15T04:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T09:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1045671"},"modified":"2010-01-15T04:20:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T09:20:44","slug":"some-good-things-about-the-british-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/182678","title":{"rendered":"Some good things about the British economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>To make a change from the usual introspection about how we are doomed, here are some of the good points about the British economy:<\/p>\n<p>+ Output of British manufacturing reached an all-time high in 2007, in real terms.<\/p>\n<p>+ The UK is the world&#8217;s 6th largest manufacturer with strong positions in certain key industries, e.g. a 15% global market share in Aerospace.<\/p>\n<p>+ The UK is the world&#8217;s 2nd largest defence manufacturer. An industry which employs 300000 and is worth $10 bn in exports a year.<\/p>\n<p>+ The UK has the 3rd largest automotive industry in Europe, with total sales of around $18bn and accounting for 11% of the UK&#8217;s total exports.<\/p>\n<p>+ Eleven of the top 100 global Aerospce&amp;Defence companies are based in the UK, amounting to $40bn of annual sales.<\/p>\n<p>+ The UK has the 4th largest refining industry in Europe. UK petrochemicals generated $50bn in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>+ Specialised chemicals were a $10bn industry in 2007, with a trade surplus of $400m.<\/p>\n<p>+ 25% of UK exports in 2006 were high-tech goods, compared with 22% in the USA, 15% in France and 11% in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>+ UK automotive output was near an all-time record high in 2007, and automotive exports were at an all-time high with a total value of around \u00a320 billion.<\/p>\n<p>+ The UK is the largest European recipient of FDI, indicating that foreign investors are keen to invest in UK manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>+ The UK has 0.9% of the World&#8217;s population, but 5% of global GDP, which makes UK output her head five times the World average.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make a change from the usual introspection about how we are doomed, here are some of the good points about the British economy: + Output of British manufacturing reached an all-time high in 2007, in real terms. + The UK is the world&#8217;s 6th largest manufacturer with strong positions in certain key industries, e.g. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}