Some people both inside and outside Britain have asserted that 1970's British Leyland produced ill-designed, poorly made vehicles that were at best boring in design and at worse downright ugly. Some futher contend that sclerotic management and inefficient labor practices doomed the company and the British car industry in general.
How could BL have made better products that kept up with German and Japanese designs? Was there any cure to the labour disputes under Labour governments? It's certainly not off-guard to argue the merits of what Mrs Thatcher did to the union culture and whether or not earlier Tory power could have stemmed the dysfunctional nature of the British car industry. Feel free to share Allegro and Marina jokes if you want.
How could BL have made better products that kept up with German and Japanese designs? Was there any cure to the labour disputes under Labour governments? It's certainly not off-guard to argue the merits of what Mrs Thatcher did to the union culture and whether or not earlier Tory power could have stemmed the dysfunctional nature of the British car industry. Feel free to share Allegro and Marina jokes if you want.
