how many of the people now out of work buy BRITISH?

One of my favourite topics. All those companies that have gone down the pan that allowed their employees to buy as company cars BMWs and the like.

Forget what others are writing - we are still one of the great industrial nations of the world - in the top 5 or 6. It matters not one jot whether a company is "foreign-owned" or not. What matters is if the person making the product is in Britain, earning wages that he/she will spend in Britain and paying taxes into the British economy.

If everyone who drives a car made by a company that doesn't make cars in the UK - that means most French, Italian, Swedish and German cars - bought a car made by a company that DOES build cars in the UK, and thus invests in the UK, our economy would be thriving.

BMW drivers' defence always is that their cars are better than (say) Jaguars. However, go to France, Germany, Sweden, Italy or the Czech Republic. In each country the vast majority of the cars will be made by one of their national companies.

Not supporting Britain, especially with regard to cars, seems to have become a sort of snobbery. Our collapsed economy is, I am sure, to a very large degree due to this attitude.

A GREAT QUESTION!

How many people in work do?

What makes a Nation of consumers create unemployment by not buying British, why can't they equate the two?

I have campaigned for years for consumers to support the UK and Europes workers by seeking out goods that will improve prosperity for the Nation as a a whole(not just the fat cats), and I get the stock answers.

Nothings made in the UK any more! And never will be unless we take a few seconds to find out.

Chinese products are cheaper! Propaganda put about by retailers who source products in China and sell at huge profits on the High St, the prices don't come down, the profits go up!

It's International Trade! In a £1000 trading situation we buy from China £999 worth of goods, in return they buy £1 from us- some trading partner!

The reason that the Government encourage imported goods and favour them is because they and the Banks make huge profits on the exchange mechanism and High St retailers make massive profit to pay rents to corporate landlords and taxes to the treasury.

The British consumer fulfils a Governmental death wish on British Industry.

Mad!

Years ago, I bought a French car new -a Citroen 2CV, because the nearest British equivalent, the Morris Minor, had been replaced by the Marina, since the Chief Executive said at the time it was a better car. They now try to tell me that the BMW MINI or the Vauxhall Corsa is as versatile as my old 2CV. The only truly British car I can get these days is made only down the road in Malvern Link by an old family firm of blacksmiths, but there is a 10 year waiting list for one of them.

I replaced it in 1995 with a secondhand 2CV, which I still run, and as bits collapse or rust away, I replace on a rolling rebuild.

With the chassis made in Somerset and the floor and sills made in Yorkshire, and the bits welded on by a bloke near Ludlow, it is probably more British than French by now!

There are very few products if any, which are British, which can compare in price and quality with foreign goods.

I include farm produce in that statement.

Perhaps foreign countries buying their own countries cars is due to the cost of the exchange rate when considering whether to buy British.

That wouldn't be a problem if we were fully into the EU.

Buying foreign cars which are made here is a waste of time, the profits from those companies goes back to their originating owners and those foreign owned car factories in the UK are heavily subsidised and also the first ones to close during any financial crisis.

Totally agree with Essex Ron. Problem is, buying British tends to be more expensive (ridiculous isn't it?) so I doubt very much if anyone unemployed could afford to buy British, even if they wanted to.

British manufacturers and farmers have huge problems keeping costs down. As an example, my family are pig farmers. There are cheap foodstuffs the Danish are allowed to feed their stock, which are totally banned in the UK. My uncle breeds the pigs, then they get sent to Denmark for fattening up (because it's a lot cheaper for them to do it) then they're returned to the UK for slaughter and fed to us as Danish bacon, even though they were bred here. It's an absolute joke.

Buy what British, we don't make anything anymore or the things we do make the factories are foriegn owned.

Sorry, there is nothing 'British' left!

S'all gone overseas in the Globalisation Frenzy and the UK is left just twiddling it's thumbs

Buy british what? Sorry your question is confusing.

the reason we`re out of work is because we didn`t buy british......

Almost half of them