[boshravie]

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-trillion-pound-horror-story/video/series-1/episode-1/up-to-our-eyeballs

[Smudgeoff Cleaning Services]

Why the hell didn't we do the same as hong kong.
What really did my head in when we found out the guy that sorted hong kong was scotish.....

[boshravie]

Doesn’t matter if he was Scottish, Chinese, Indian, or any were else, he made this small Ireland prosperous, and now Chinese are copying it, and running with money .

[mci services]

Why the hell didn't we do the same as hong kong.
What really did my head in when we found out the guy that sorted hong kong was scotish.....

and what's wrong with being Scottish :

[boshravie]

Please pass this program to any source you can, because the new government, is planning to put the V.A.T. and all kind of other tax up, and who is going to pay for it? Us lot (Private sector) this is got to be stop.

[Paul Coleman]

I've just been watching this program on the catch up TV service.
I'm not convinced.
However, we may end up having no choice anyway.
In times gone by the gaps were plugged by stealing other nations' resources - effectively exporting the problem.  We are probably seeing the final death throes of such a mentality though over the next few years as people worldwide are generally a bit more clued up these days.  In addition to that, there are less resources to steal anyway.
It's all very well pointing to 19th century Britain as the nation's golden era.  It wasn't if you were working class.  The basic difference between Hong Kong and Britain is that in Britain's industrial revolution, the working class was heavily exploited.  The mistrust has never gone away.