And I think a lot of the issues that we’ve had in the UK around loss of our industry have been because the government hasn’t done anything to retrain the people that lost their jobs. When you go to some of the northern parts of the UK and there’s nothing there because they were hugely industrial bits — shipbuilding and mining and all this kind of stuff — and they just took it away and didn’t do anything. And you can’t do that. You didn’t just destroy people’s lives, you destroyed entire communities. It’s happened here – it’s probably one of the reasons why Mr. Trump is where he is. It’s fine to destroy industries – industries sometimes have to be destroyed and something better created in their place – but you don’t have to destroy the people that work in those industries at the same time.
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