where does Britain get it's revenue from?

Question

It seems everybody I speak to from another town the story is the same; no products being built to export, ect All there seems to be is tesco after tesco after tesco....and the civil sevice. Where does Britain get it's revenue from?

Answer 1

Lets form a circle and all pat each other on the back for a job well done. We are all shagging ourselves in a service industry. All we make is a load of tossers with too much money.

Answer 2

While I understand the sentiment, UK (as a country) cannot generate revenue from taxes from its own citizens (this is just moving money around the country).
Revenues come from exports of any products or (increasingly) services to individuals / companies or governments in other nations. We don't sell as many cars / ships / lumps of coal to other countries as we used to, but this is made up by selling more support services (ie we are selling our people's time and skills, rather than the products they make)

Answer 3

International Banking and Insurance are the the two largest revenue producers for Britain.

Answer 4

Taxpayers.

Britain does have factories and they do export. One such British company has a plant that makes plastics in Fremont, CA even though the firm is HQ'd in Scotland, which is part of Britain.

Answer 5

It comes from our government selling our gold reserves to other countries.

Gold incidentally is the most valued comodity in the time of war, so if we're going to war we're screwed!

Answer 6

Taxes from us!

Answer 7

taxes on everything