We are the second biggest car manufacturer in Europe We are global players in aerospace, pharmaceuticals and erm, arms We are creating a tech hub in App development only behind Silicon Valley We have a renaissance in specialist and high end film production and have global expertise in many animation/special effects We are developing expertise in some very new materials technology graphene etc We export our TV formats and ideas globally We are actually doing quite well in a large number of high value growth areas in manufacturing and in many of these 'creative manufacturing' areas We have also of course still have a ginormous service sector that adds massive value including global leadership in many financial services and related high value areas ( boo hiss from stage left) ...what we don,t have any more is half a million plus miners doing dirty dangeorous jobs producing high pollutant energy, 200,000 in producing steel, a global commodity, or half a million in shipbuilding or dockers. We aren't doing that bad