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manufacturing companies established in Thailand that export their products can be 100% foreign owned and not subject to duty which on vehicles from Europe are not inconsiderable.



National and international politicians and bureaucrats are always setting policies, tariffs and regulations that affect decisions made by business. For instance, building a new factory, or expanding one, in the EU requires you to use more energy, thus requiring the production of more CO2. CO2 is supposed to be a greenhouse gas. The EU signed the Kyoto treaty so they cannot add to their production of CO2 without violating the treaty so they send the production to Thailand which didn't sign the treaty. Thailand gets the jobs, Triumph gets cheaper production, English workers get screwed. Thanks Algore.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.