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Firstly, this is not a thread to discuss the rights or wrongs of Brexit/A50/ Trump.

So looking at the distinct possibility of Peugeot buying Opel, and the obvious implications for the Vauxhall workers jobs(not that I like Vauxhall) would you alter your choice of purchases (whatever the item is) if the item you want is now not made in this country?
Personally, I would want to be buying British made and if I can't it would be non EU ( and if it's a car, either Japanese or Korean) and I have always been one to appreciate German build and engineering standards.
 
Bunkermagnet said:
Firstly, this is not a thread to discuss the rights or wrongs of Brexit/A50/ Trump.

So looking at the distinct possibility of Peugeot buying Opel, and the obvious implications for the Vauxhall workers jobs(not that I like Vauxhall) would you alter your choice of purchases (whatever the item is) if the item you want is now not made in this country?
Personally, I would want to be buying British made and if I can't it would be non EU ( and if it's a car, either Japanese or Korean) and I have always been one to appreciate German build and engineering standards.
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Id probably just buy what i want most.
 
I wouldn't let it affect my decision, I'd buy what I wanted that suited my needs best.

We already have and have had for decades vehicles and loads of products that have expensive or hard to get spares, we still get hold of them and there's always someone who will have access to them to make a buck or 2 selling them to us, plus it's so easy to order anything you want worldwide nowadays and that won't change.
 
How can you tell if things are British or not nowadays? Just because they are made in Britain they may be owned by a foreign company, for example, is a Toyota made in Derby a British car? Also, with a load of other tings, a Union Jack may just mean that part of the process was carried out in Britain- food products do this.
I also remember reading about suits for one of our sports teams (euro 16 football) that were claimed to be British but were Aussie wool, processed in Italy but classed as British as the tailor had sewn them together in London 🤔
 
Neilds said:
How can you tell if things are British or not nowadays? Just because they are made in Britain they may be owned by a foreign company, for example, is a Toyota made in Derby a British car? Also, with a load of other tings, a Union Jack may just mean that part of the process was carried out in Britain- food products do this.
I also remember reading about suits for one of our sports teams (euro 16 football) that were claimed to be British but were Aussie wool, processed in Italy but classed as British as the tailor had sewn them together in London 樂
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I think the point was whether your preference would be for products assembled and sold in the UK without import tariffs.
 
SocketRocket said:
I think the point was whether your preference would be for products assembled and sold in the UK without import tariffs.
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Just if it had some sort of British worker involvement in its production, and if it didn't would you then deliberately overlook it for a non EU product?
 
Best of luck with this. Many, many products are UK stamped but they are purely screwed together here, as has been mentioned. The supply chain is truly global now. Personally I would prefer to buy British, then EU then elsewhere, always leaving Chinese produced products to last. I say prefer because if I have a choice between an Italian product and a UK product and I prefer the Italian one then that is what I will buy. The products have to be equal or the difference is marginal for me to make the preference method work.

There has been many a buy British campaign, none has worked. It's a shame but that is reality.

Incidentally, on my Linkedin stream yesterday I received a post congratulating Dyson on their new multi million pound investment in design, technology etc in Singapore. I'm normally very neutral on there but I had a pop this time. Why the heck were people congratulating Dyson on ploughing money into Singapore rather than the UK?
 
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As mentioned, the supply chain is global.... if the EU decide to impose putative duty on our imports and exports, that's up to them. But Mrs Merkel has bigger problems to solve.

...I am sure I can manage with a Japanese car, Australian wine, American clothing and golf clubs (all made in China!:D) etc etc

...so, no change at all. (and copious notes about why are all in another thread)
 
We are an import nation, you go to Germany and 9/10 cars are german, same in France.

The French go further, my Mum gets dirty looks from the local shopkeeper in France when she buys any wine not french! They are very proud of their own products and can not understand why anyone would buy anything not french! Even blocked the ports last year to prevent the delivery of new world wines!

Me, no british car out there suitable for me i dont think, land rover disco, although not British, they are made here i think..
 
Rooter said:
We are an import nation, you go to Germany and 9/10 cars are german, same in France.

The French go further, my Mum gets dirty looks from the local shopkeeper in France when she buys any wine not french! They are very proud of their own products and can not understand why anyone would buy anything not french! Even blocked the ports last year to prevent the delivery of new world wines!

Me, no british car out there suitable for me i dont think, land rover disco, although not British, they are made here i think..
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Always been like that since I can remember, all emergency vehicles, police, taxis etc are all their own.
 
Is there anything these days that is fully British made and British owned ? All the main manufacturers appeared to from outside the U.K.

Can't think of anything I own that is fully British
 
MegaSteve said:
Thread sums up why Brexit is possibly coming 10 years too late...
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But the problem isn't that we are in the EU as is proven by the earlier examples of France and Germany managing to produce and manufacture their own goods. It can only be down to policies of the UK government's of both colours that has caused this.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
Is there anything these days that is fully British made and British owned ? All the main manufacturers appeared to from outside the U.K.

Can't think of anything I own that is fully British
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we need to get back to making things ourselves but that's easier said than done.

a lot of our industry has too much foreign investment and when something goes wrong it is easier to get rid of workers here than anywhere else.

just look at the French they buy their own produce first imports second!

When things go wrong there they fight for their rights to the detriment of everyone else, maybe we need to take a leaf out of their book.

Its been noted though it's hard to find anything totally British.
 
I am not anti EU at the moment, my reason for asking the question as I did was because of the highly likely of Peugeot buying Opel out, which would almost certainly mean the closure of the countries Vauxhall plants and their relocation to somewhere within the EU, with the resulting unemployment.
Peugeot have done this before, relocating back to France, and with the French Governments share in them and us being ex EU I do look and ask myself should I be buying French/EU over British made?
I fully accept the Country has sold off its silver to anyone who has the money, and whilst I don't agree with the path we have fully taken, I don't particularly want to keep giving my money to a country/countries that are happy to push our workers out the door simply to reward their own ideology and unions.
Ultimately I want companies, whether British or foreign, to want to employ workers here knowing the country will buy those products made here over imports.
Is that so wrong or just idealistic?
 
ColchesterFC said:
But the problem isn't that we are in the EU as is proven by the earlier examples of France and Germany managing to produce and manufacture their own goods. It can only be down to policies of the UK government's of both colours that has caused this.
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Our membership of the EU has allowed big business to move manufacturing overseas all too easily... And, yes their political puppets in Westminster haven't fought our corner well..
 
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