>I think he's stuck on the romance of Britain as a
>manufacturing country, with lots of mill towns, pit
>villages and similar lovely old close-knit
>communities. This is a fairly endemic disease in
>Britland -- thinking of our history as being "a great
>manufacturing nation", which we aren't, rather than a
>great trading nation, which we were.
Don't forget the "great mass-murdering imperial nation" part!
Doug