In Heiligendamm's home province the shipbuilding industry had shriveled, farms were struggling and unemployment reached into the double digits.

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The United Kingdom let their shipbuilding industry die and is now contracting the building of their warships to Daewoo in South Korea.

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Anyone who knows how heavy industry used to work in Scotland - shipbuilding is the example I know best - knows that for generations promotion was out of the question if you went to a school called St Anything's.

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But the former head of the armed forces, Sir Jock Stirrup, told the BBC on Sunday that the aircraft carriers deal had been done for "entirely sensible" reasons - to persuade the UK's shipbuilding industry to scale down and invest in rationalisation.

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But hardly any details have been decided, particularly the tricky ones of how this will ease South Korea's blight of overcapacity in practically every industry, from shipbuilding to semiconductors.

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