Should we be backing a "Buy British" campaign, to aid economic recovery

[LazyGun]

Interesting article, I thought -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15551818

Government response seems to be that having such campaign would be counter-productive, since if other countries implemented a similar campaign this would impact our exports - Not sure that such logic holds much sway, since other countries already instinctively buy home built products in the main, dont you think?

[Kayless]

right oh; Clokey, carry on beleiving that lefty propaganda if it makes you feel good!

[jno]

"One might blame management if they where actually allowed to manage"

Fiddlesticks. As I said before, BMC lost a fortune on the Mini because someone in management couldn't do his sums (in spite of the wonderful educational standards in the 1950s I keep hearing about). Management were allowed to manage, and it turned out they weren't competent to do so.

As rojash says: British labour seems to be doing fine with foreign management.

[237SJ]

Nice idea but I don`t think a buy british campaign would get off the ground. Consumers are so price-driven these days.
I try to buy British food. Partly to support our farmers but mainly because I trust their farming practices (give or take the odd BSE crisis).

[horseshoes]

I was in Tesco one day last year and couldn't buy a British apple! Anglesey potatoes are wonderful - even nicer than Jersey Royals yet none in our local supermarkets. I realise it's all about economics etc but how can we support local and British fruit and vegetables when the supermarkets don't stock them? Our local Farmers market always sell out making it obvious that people WILL pay more for quality and to support local growers.

[boxtops]

Most of the stuff in the shops that we think of as British brands are made overseas - good old M&S is famed for buying from third world manufacturers. British would be more expensive, and there's no money about at the moment. If you want a cheap vest, you don't go to M&S.

[jomifl]

A lot of foreign (outside the EU) produce is cheap because they have no mimimum wage, no pension scheme, no health insurance, no health and safety at work act, no 3rd party liability insurance, no factories act. We should not import products from countries that do not have equivalent standards to protect employees from exploitation and occupational disease.

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe not buying imports is becoming more urgent than you thought.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15653282

[Zeuhl]

perhaps we don't manufacture cars anymore

we make more cars and components now than ever eg half Ford's world production of diesel engines is here.

The British workers are world class - sadly, it's all run by foreign owned companies

[emmie]

perhaps we should all go back to a barter system, because the way things are going it might be the only way we can get our own produce on the table, or in the cupboard.

[tonywiltshire]

The scary think clokey is that you probably believe this.

[Elderman]

lazygun .... Giving you the benefit of the doubt, you may believe you are speaking clearly - communicating your message, as it were. Those of us who post here no different. You cherry pick in an attempt to add weight to your homilies. You flat out refuse to engage with anyone offering a counter - argument. You cut and paste from the internet with little regard for attribution or relevance
You are a virtual demagogue, offering nothing original - only the same tired anti-scientific, anti - liberal, mysoginistic views, expressed in the form of your favourite verse from your favourite book of fairy tales.

[LazyGun]

@ Elderman - Yep, I really think that is what you do.Nor am I the only one who questions your unthinking cut and paste approach to discussion and argument.

[Elderman]

lazy....Your posts always make me laugh, even the incomprehensible ones, or the copy and pasted ones, or the unattributed ones, or the sanctimonious ones - Think that covers all of them?

[LazyGun]

@Elderman - Now this is just sad. Not content with copying and reprinting without acknowlegement or attribution, you are merely repeating yourself. Lacking in inspiration, originality and effort.