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Roscosmos: An assembly error doomed our Soyuz, but we promise it won't happen again

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>Truth was british car workers back in the day were short sighted, cretinous, lazy fools who would use strong arm tactics to get what they wanted no matter what the long term cost

I lived through the 70s, and recognise that propaganda from the right-wing press of the time. The real truth was that British management was crap - as we discovered when foreign management managed to produce decent cars - with British workers.

As Geoffrey Goodman later observed - you could always predict when there was going to be a wildcat strike; when the storage car parks filled up with unsold cars, some issue would be created, to annoy the workers enough to walk out (and allow some cars to be sold, to clear the storage parks).

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