to want to buy ' ONLY BRITISH' made products

[presceccoilove]

absolutely fed up with chinese crap, just want to buy 'BRITISH' made products AIBU?

[GhostShip]

Awww but then you wouldn't be able to buy that Italian wine you love so much you make it your username.

[Cailleach]

No, I find myself thinking this more and more these days. I've bought so many things over the years that were made in China, and most of it was total rubbish that lasted barely ten minutes (vacuum cleaners being the worst. ) Some of this wasn't cheap either, I'm not talking about poundshop level tat.

Now I'd rather buy European made stuff and I look out for it wherever possible.

[GrimAndHumourlessAndEven]

don't understand your question

if you want to buy products made in GB, then do so

Not sure why you think you are being unreasonable to do this

[presceccoilove]

I was referring to 'KNICKERS' actually

[AKissIsNotAContract]

What kind of products?

[GrimAndHumourlessAndEven]

[baffled]

praps this is an ad-bot doing a bit of spamming for those £10 keks from Mary Portas or summat

[NomadsLand]

You can buy British activewear and swimwear here //www.stateofmindactive.com

Or check out //www.buybritish.com

[presceccoilove]

I'm thinking along the lines of english clothes, art, material, cars, in fact almost everything except wine, have the chinese ever made a decent prescecco I think not

[Fozzleyplum]

YANBU. I love Brora knitwear, which is British made. The quality is amazing and it seems never to wear out.
I buy Hotter Valetta shoes for work, as I have very wide feet and now wear orthotics. I have discovered they are British made, and are really well made for the price (flattering, too, on my massive flippers).

[presceccoilove]

I adore mARY pORTAS SHE IS marvelous, we need more mary's in the UK to encourage less imports or am I missing something

[presceccoilove]

I am proud to be british on a british website, what is so wrong, i want to buy british products not chinese

[presceccoilove]

Come on , lets support British products, name some

1. Top of My List is Mary Portas

[HELPMyPooIsStuck]

Yanbu.......but chances are you won't be able to bleddy do it, I too am sick of mass produced shite, dd plays with some of my old toys......cant see many of hers lasting 30 plus years !

[GrimAndHumourlessAndEven]

no one is saying it's wrong; if you feel so strongly why are you not sourcing and purchasing already?

[WorraLorraTurkey]

Buy what you want with your money, I don't bloody care.

[GrimAndHumourlessAndEven]

are we supposed to be rubbishing stuff made by forriners etc etc, them pesky chinese yadda yadda but failing dismally to fall in line, OP?

[Beaverfeaver]

I buy British where possible.

I them also buy what I can from my local independent shops.

Not always possible, but if you try hard enough it's possible and feels good to support local stuff

[Beaverfeaver]

I havnt found a decent British made tv or camera yet though...

[LRDtheFeministDude]

I feel Mary Portas would be a great export. Mainly because she'd then feck off with her patronizing comments.

I used to like her shows, too. Not any more.

[SomeTiggyPudding]

And another one to finish you off !

[Cantbelieveitsnotbutter]

I try to where possible, it's the 'proudly British' brands like joules and jack wills that make me chuckle, only recently have they started to get into British manufacturing.
I think it's massively important we try and keep the pound in Britain. How can we moan there's no jobs if we don't help it ourselves?

[Mayisout]

Well you could all start by avoiding Amazon or Starbucks whilst they pay their tax in Luxemburg or wherever it is, to avoid the British tax system.

While they are raking in the dosh other British based companies are going down the pan due to he unfairness which allows these big firms to evade tax.

I bet it would only take a couple of weeks of them being ignored to change their plans. They are already mumbling about 'taking their customers views into consideration' which to me means 'are running scared in case custom drops off'.

But we are too apathetic to do anything serious.

[ripsishere]

Good luck with that.
The reason, IMO, that things and stuff are so inexpensive is the very fact that they've been made overseas.
When we lived in England, I tried really hard to buy season, locally produced food. It's very difficult, not to mention expensive.

[mortimersraven]

I used to work in British manufacturing and I think it's sad how little most people care about sourcing locally made products (although price is a massive factor - I couldn't afford the products we made - which were 10x the price of a Chinese made equivalent).

Now I work in China. Although I agree it's good to support local business and economy, I would like to wave a little flag on behalf of Chinese manufacturing which has a terrible reputation for being cheap and nasty but is actually very different now to what it used to be. I've seen absolute tat and I've seen super-top quality being produced here. It depends very much upon the company.

In addition, most British made products will use foreign components so be aware that for example, 'British' cashmere still somes from cashmere goats in China or Mongolia, it's just processed and knitted/woven in Britain.

Most 'Made in Italy' textile products, (clothes, bags etc) are actually made in China, then they do a final process in Italy - sew on a label, or hem a scarf - and then they can legally say 'Made in Italy'. It's not as easy to buy local as you'd think.