Let’s back british workers and british products too

[joebloggs]

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HOW refreshing it is to hear a senior business leader praising British workers and announcing the hiring of many more of them.


http://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/306490/Let-s-back-British-workers-and-British-products-too

[stevie c]

:xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Terpe]

I agree. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Anyone here remember the old Buy British campaign from a few years ago.
Can't seem to remember when that was. :olddude:

[joebloggs]

I agree. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Anyone here remember the old Buy British campaign from a few years ago.
Can't seem to remember when that was. :olddude:

:xxgrinning--00xx3:

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTdsvTwYKHWBe_KnLwN7kYk0_pgJJ3z3Mz7FpGVSZ4wQzfzDN5S

[Dedworth]

It should be mandatory for the public sector to buy British - it was disgraceful of the Govt to give that Thameslink train order to the Germans. I've been watching the BBC programme about London Underground - all their new Tube trains are built in Derby

[lastlid]

And the new routemaster bus goes to / gone to a british builder....that right?

[grahamw48]

London taxi cabs are built in China now. :rolleyes:

[imagine]

I agree. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Anyone here remember the old Buy British campaign from a few years ago.
Can't seem to remember when that was. :olddude:
its more than a few years ago now lad :icon_lol:

[grahamw48]

http://www.newsplayer.com/im-backing-britain-campaign-1968-video

It is real, not a Monty Python sketch. :icon_lol:

I was 17 and remember it well....still sticking to it whenever possible. :)

[andy222]

First of all we have to manufacture something in britain in order to buy it.:doh

[Dedworth]

First of all we have to manufacture something in britain in order to buy it.:doh

A must watch :-

The great British knicker experiment: Doom-mongers say British workers are too lazy to compete with the Far East. A new Channel 4 venture proves them wrong...

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2109754/The-great-British-knicker-experiment-Doom-mongers-say-British-workers-lazy-compete-Far-East-A-new-Channel-4-venture-proves-wrong-.html#ixzz1oTKNDx3C

[andy222]

My mistake. I was talking about engineering Dedworth. Something we were brilliant at all those years ago.:xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Dedworth]

My mistake. I was talking about engineering Dedworth. Something we were brilliant at all those years ago.:xxgrinning--00xx3:

Domino effect Andy - knickers = fabric, lace, elastic, thread which all need machines to produce them. Cowboys like Marks & 'Spensive killed off swathes of UK manufacturing years ago by sourcing products from Asian, Turkish and Eastern European sweat shops. I remember being horrified about 15 years ago to find the my hundred quid suit had cost them a fiver from Romania.

[bigmarco]

I'm backing Britain wasn't that the campaign where the T shirts were made in Portugal.