Originally Posted by
Asturias56
The UK is fairly good at lots of things - and very good at some others - things like finance, music, very high end tech (Dyson, RR, F1 cars), some biological sciences
Unfortunately these aren't were most people work
Asturias 56
Not sure I am in the market for F1 car or a McLaren / Bently etc and have had Dyson product and after a lot of discussion reached a financial settlement with said company over damage caused to carpets not to mention reliability. As for finance I think it is a two edged sword and for an individual or indeed company I have never found UK institutions to be any good in that line even when we were UK based. They are very good when times are good, but appalling when 2008 came about, hence we as a company no longer use UK Banks or Insurers. By Biological sciences I assume you mean research rather than production. As for Music, yes I agree though probably because English is the "world" language which undoubtedly helps. As you say these are small areas of the economy, and not where most of the UK population work, and as we have such a large population this specialisation would really only work if we were say the size of Switzerland. Indeed if you count Swiss leading brands in some of the fields you mention eg Roche,Suzler, and any number of banks, then perhaps that is what the UK should follow, but what do you do with the other circa 40m people !!
Cheers
Mr Mac