No CPU chip is made 100% in Britian, dou't we even have the required raw materials. Same with most other components for electronics. If most people got out there wardrobes how many own a piece of clothing made in England or uk 99% is china / India. Same with any branded trainer. We do make our own shoes enough not sure the leather is from uk. Britian is an importer. Including electric and gas oil Ect. We would have to reopen the coal mines if we wanted electric.
Friend of mine had the head gasket go twice on hers, she only had it a coupe of weeks the first time but it failed again within 6 months and Arnold Clark were having nothing to do with it until contacting Citizens Advice and Trading Standards. Two things came out of that experience: 1. She will never by another MG 2. She will never buy again from Arnold Clark
It's pointless to take this kind of stance - as a country we simply don't make the things that the nation needs/buys on a yearly basis. This can be due to the manufacturing not being in the country, or even if it is, the raw materials coming from overseas due to the geographical locations of mining etc. If you have an option, buy British, but if there's no British option, then something from overseas isn't going to kill you or the economy. You're still paying a British retailer who has imported that produce, and hence supporting their staff by keeping them in a job.
If everyone in Britain bought only British produced food, it would be a start. It would show that there's an appetite for British products which would be noticed by market researchers and would then feed in to buying practices. And as for WHERE you buy it... as we see, spending money in the supermarkets just results in their fatcat accountants and lawyers creaming off the profits to overseas tax-havens.
The UK doesn't produce enough food to be self self-sufficient unless you happy living on a very plain diet with no meat. The environmental and cost effects of greenhouse growing all the demanded out of seasons crops would be huge. And if you want everyone to be buying from a small independent shop well done you've forced hundreds of thousands of people into a menial service job with the resultant slash of productivity. Any kind of tax avoidance is a failing of the government rather than some despicable moral act. I've no idea whether Tesco for example engage in tax avoidance in regards their profits and top end pay packages but those taxes will be small in comparison to VAT/salaries/rents and other taxable economic transactions generated by the large retailers. You can't hide those costs from the taxman.
It's a shame really, as the car was mid engine, RWD, and light. All let down by the engine. Otherwise a great little sports car. I take it she got a refund or got the car fixed for free the second time around, or did she just cut her loses? I got a full refund, but that may be down to my stocky build and my temper when I stormed in the showroom and slammed the keys down on the sales man desk demanding my money back as the sales man was cowering behind his desk. I'm not normally like that, but it was more to the point that it took 4 hrs to be recovered when my partner was 5 months pregnant, which was a joke.
...yeah, I'll trust people who know what they're doing, understand the science behind it and can cite credible, peer-reviewed research way before even considering some random, speculative "Correlation equates to causation!" argument. If your argument was true, if it held even the slightest bit of evidence or corresponded to reality in any way whatsoever, you sir: would win a Nobel prize. Not only would you turn an entire industry on it's head, but you would have literally saved billions of lives. ****ing Billions. And it's not even just that, it's so much more than just saving lives, because there is also the massive financial cost to society at large, which means that you've not just saved billions of lives, you've also managed to save billions of dollars - possibly trillions. You and you alone, with this one revelation, could quite literally ensure the future for the entire human race is one we want to live for. Go forth, present your hard hitting research, show your evidence, convince those of us that want to be convinced, go on and save those billions of people who are suffering, turn the world-wide economic recession around, be the single most celebrated hero the Earth has ever seen. Unless you are just talking out of your arse, that is.
Ah the optimists . Did you actually look at country of manufacturing of your "British food" ? Let's hope you didn't end up as the Hungarians and their candies, where one is made in Slovakia, another in Czech Republic, third in Romania (yes, we talk about food)... You guys would have a hard time doing even a "Made in China"-free month, not even talking about a "British only" month.
Haha, Sorry. I will say now though, it's highly unlikely you will find a store under your (or even 'my' bed) Sam
And we wouldn't produce enough food to meet demand. As a nation, we have decimated our agriculture, and even if we boosted it back up we simply don't have the physical space or climate to bring all food production back to Britain. Yet those supermarkets provide thousands upon thousands of jobs. Corporations make money, that's their entire purpose of existence, but the economy needs them. Independents still make a profit, just on a smaller scale, and I'll bet they don't give it to the "needy" either. This whole paranoia about tax is ridiculous.
I think its one of budgets and time. One offs or limited runs have more money and more time invested in them, but when it comes to taking something and producing it economically, then corners are cut etc. Somewhat reminds me of when Heston Blumenthal was trying to fix Little Chef, he had some good ideas, but the food he wanted just cost too much, so he had to do it as cheaply as possible, and it didnt look, or apparently taste, anywhere near as good. Tea probably sourced in much the same way as "Yorkshire Tea" from the um vast tea fields of Yorkshire...oh wait, no, they only blend the imported leaves there.
I admire the cause, but I worry about the consequences as far as being a ***** is concerned. I like the concept of buying British, but there's a big Venn overlap between people who advocate buying British and people who are pricks. When they're milling through their local stores glaring at small goods down their noses and muttering "nope, as I thought, not British", sniffing at all the nasty foreign goods, I want to think "yes, good for you, standing up for the local economy", but instead I can't help just thinking, "you're a *****". For economic reasons, I'd like to adopt a Buy British stance, but I worry that I, too, would just come across as a *****. Do I have it in me to Buy British without being a ***** about it - without preaching annoyingly to my friends and co-workers, without making self-righteous appearances on BBC news segments, without rudely berating shop owners about the origins of their produce? Would I be able to explain my buying choices to people without sounding condescending and superior? Would I be able to resist soapboxing on the subject every time I went shopping? It's a fine line to walk. (I'm not being facetious, I really do admire the cause. I just wonder whether it's possible to support it without being a ***** about it.)
