I have bought stuff from China from Amazon if I can't get what I want locally or online from UK/Europe, and generally it arrives quickly and seems decent quality. The last thing was a load of foldover elastic in different colours. Good luck to them if they can spy on me through my knicker elastic .
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I have been looking for a set of every day kitchen crockery but every time I check its origin "made in china" which means jobs lost in Staffordshire, Limoges and all the other great British and European manufacturers. Same with clothes outsourced to Bangladesh etc because it's cheaper to manufacture where nobody cares about workers conditions, safety, pay levels, health care.
Buy from China? Fine, but don't complain about lost jobs/lot skills/unemployment/higher taxes when all the UK can do in the end is call centres and fast food.
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I have bought a not cheap remote for my television I thought was legit and but turned out to be a Chinese fake. It's not always that easy to tell. But I'm sure that's deliberate.
Globalisation is more complex than any made in labels. Big global companies are the ones making money and they change as it suits them. Made in China labour cost is probably getting too expensive for them now so they change to another poorer country or one with cheaper running costs. And many made in labels can’t reflect globalisation of source material, design and various assembly points I expect. Support local but it’s the Global companies who are profiteering and many of those are western I expect. Fake goods are probably globally run too.
I have bought stuff from China from Amazon if I can't get what I want locally or online from UK/Europe, and generally it arrives quickly and seems decent quality. The last thing was a load of foldover elastic in different colours. Good luck to them if they can spy on me through my knicker elastic .
I’ll buy elastic from wherever I can if the quality is sound. The price has gone up with all these people making masks 😄
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Buy from China? Fine, but don't complain about lost jobs/lot skills/unemployment/higher taxes when all the UK can do in the end is call centres and fast food.