Build it in Great Britain!

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

From the Far East to Watford - Chinese manufacturers almost sunk one luxury goods firm but British ones saved it - Yahoo Finance UK

[Steve Bullman]

love the fact you are anti chinese yet you have a lego model as your avatar

 

LEGO.com About Us LEGO Group to build factory in China

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

love the fact you are anti chinese yet you have a lego model as your avatar

 

LEGO.com About Us LEGO Group to build factory in China

 

Not anti - chinese, but currently not supportive of chinese manufacturing and being a net importer.

 

Plus the lego in my avatar was manufactured in 1980 and NOT made in china, but denmark.

 

You are obviously an investor in the chinese economy? You know I am not but you don't have to try and make me look stupid on here just because we have different opinions???

 

You can't avoid having something made in China in life now and it's good to see a country develop a manufacturing base with foreign investment; like the article says though, culturally they see no problem with copying, faking and sub standard QC.

 

Edited November 18, 2013 by TimberCutterDartmoor

[wrsni]

From the Far East to Watford - Chinese manufacturers almost sunk one luxury goods firm but British ones saved it - Yahoo Finance UK

 

For what it's worth, I couldn't agree more.

 

If the country is in a shakey state now, it's building up even more trouble for itself by selling it's soul to all comers.

 

The thought of nuclear power is horrific, the standard of chinese goods is horrendous, chinese built nuclear reactor anyone?

 

Oh yeah that's right, we're getting four of them!

[magwick]

British is defo best if you you want hi spec kit made. Which is why brompton bikes have set up two shops in China, massive market for British manufacturing in China, the Chinese accept that we make high end stuff better.

Sadly we British have a weird mind set that makes us think people are anti China/Taiwan/Korea if we don't want stuff that's made there.

That's got to change, our industry's are world beating, look at the bike triad alone- hope , renthal and brompton all made hear no out source. The rest of the world knows it why don't we?

[wrsni]

The rest of the world knows it why don't we?

 

Because we're essentially a nation of greedy money grabbing cheap skates. We want as much as possible for ourselves, yet give as little of it as possible to anyone else.

 

We want to earn £20 an hour yet want everyone who provides us with a service or product to earn £1 an hour. We want to go out and earn as much as possible for ourselves but expect someone else to look after our increasingly horrendous ill-mannered children for as little as possible.

 

Shale gas will come as will nuclear power because we won't care about further rape and potential destruction of our environment if it gives us another few quid of disposable income in the week to then blow on crappy imported goods which we don't even need and will tip our balance of trade even further in to the red.

 

Did Primark suffer the predicted massive consumer back lash once we found out the appalling working conditions, even resulting in huge loss of life, that was behind their cheap clothing? Did they bollocks, they recently posted results showing one of the largest increases in sales of any company in the UK.

 

We allowed (almost) all our building societies to convert to banks between twenty and thirty years ago by allowing ourselves to be bought out with a few quid of a "share dividend", that's when the first seeds of the financial crisis were really sown.

 

All this stuff going on and we're not even learning from it. You'd think what's happening at Fukushima would be enough to demonstrate to any sane even vaguely intelligent person that ALL nuclear facilities anywhere in the world need to be shut as soon as possible, but no we're going to build more because we think it'll save us some money!!!!

 

We all like to pay lip service to caring about our children, and their children, yet our actions demonstrate that we actually don't give a toss!

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

We want to go out and earn as much as possible for ourselves but expect someone else to look after our increasingly horrendous ill-mannered children for as little as possible.

 

Bang on the money, as was the whole post (imo )

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Sadly we British have a weird mind set that makes us think people are anti China/Taiwan/Korea if we don't want stuff that's made there.

 

as above

[skyhuck]

Makes me wonder who all people are who support children in need and countless other charities, I guess they must all be immigrants

 

Talk about doom and gloom merchants

[nepia]

the standard of chinese goods is horrendous,!

 

 

...now. But so were Japanese goods when that economy was exploding in the 60s. Now look at the quality. China will go the same way.