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Only 8% of Olympics merchandise made in UK!
« on: 12 November 2010, 11:00:59 »
What a missed gol;den opportunity. Apparently the Olympics make a lot of revenue from merchandising. Ours will too but although a few of the products are supplied by British companies only 8% is manufactured in the UK.

http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=538374&vId=1926633

Only in Britain. The Spanish and French certasinly wouldn't have done that if they were hosting. Apparently a lot of the South African Olympics stuff was also sources abroad. I can sort of understand that.

And people wonder why the country is in trouble..............................
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Re: Only 8% of Olympics merchandise made in UK!
« Reply #1 on: 12 November 2010, 11:28:18 »
when i left school i did my apprentership on a huge trading estate. probably 90% were engineering companies, i go through on way to golf now and none there anymore. is this the problem, we dont make anything anymore, everything is from abroad, lack of skilled personel, no apprenterships just manual labour
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Re: Only 8% of Olympics merchandise made in UK!
« Reply #2 on: 12 November 2010, 19:52:23 »
Can't say that I'm at all surprised - profit before everything after all.
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Re: Only 8% of Olympics merchandise made in UK!
« Reply #3 on: 12 November 2010, 20:43:13 »
why would you make anything in the UK any more ?

our labour force has simply priced itself out of the market.
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Re: Only 8% of Olympics merchandise made in UK!
« Reply #4 on: 12 November 2010, 21:17:20 »
The Md for Vaughtons was on TV this morning. His workforce looked very skilled at making enamelled badges and the like.

Anyway the opportunity has gone and a dare say it will be another nail in a few coffins. Very sad.
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Re: Only 8% of Olympics merchandise made in UK!
« Reply #5 on: 12 November 2010, 22:28:38 »
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why would you make anything in the UK any more ?

our labour force has simply priced itself out of the market.


if that was the reason, Germany would make nothing  ;)
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Re: Only 8% of Olympics merchandise made in UK!
« Reply #6 on: 12 November 2010, 22:34:44 »
Yeah but people buy German cars because they are bult to 'quality' (allegedly) ...

I don't recall anyone ever using the same reason to buy BL ;D
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Re: Only 8% of Olympics merchandise made in UK!
« Reply #7 on: 12 November 2010, 22:46:27 »
i didnt think it would be that high...
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Re: Only 8% of Olympics merchandise made in UK!
« Reply #8 on: 12 November 2010, 23:20:38 »
I drag shipping containers around all day. Nearly everything is imported & the containers are sent back on the boat empty. Most of the little we export is waste. Tyres to be recycled, bales of fabric to be recycled then the new product is imported again. I'm not up on politics as it's all lies to feed the fat cats as is banking but what happened to our once strong manufacturing industry?
    We've become a nation of retail parks & computer desks.  :(
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Re: Only 8% of Olympics merchandise made in UK!
« Reply #9 on: 12 November 2010, 23:55:17 »
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I drag shipping containers around all day. Nearly everything is imported & the containers are sent back on the boat empty. Most of the little we export is waste. Tyres to be recycled, bales of fabric to be recycled then the new product is imported again. I'm not up on politics as it's all lies to feed the fat cats as is banking but what happened to our once strong manufacturing industry?
    We've become a nation of retail parks & computer desks.  :(



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We've become a nation of retail parks & computer desks.

I don't think you're too far off the mark there Guy. :y
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Re: Only 8% of Olympics merchandise made in UK!
« Reply #10 on: 13 November 2010, 00:12:56 »
Those computer desks give me a job, though .. I'd quite like them to stay around and not be replaced by a steel press or the like ;)
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« Reply #11 on: 13 November 2010, 00:22:12 »
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Those computer desks give me a job, though .. I'd quite like them to stay around and not be replaced by a steel press or the like ;)



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You're probably safe enough there A as they have joined the legion of machinery forever consigned to the garbage bin of our defunct manufacturing process.
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Re: Only 8% of Olympics merchandise made in UK!
« Reply #12 on: 13 November 2010, 00:23:25 »
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Those computer desks give me a job, though .. I'd quite like them to stay around and not be replaced by a steel press or the like ;)
Any industry needs blue & white collar workers to maintain an equilibrium but it seems there are less & les blue collar jobs & more white collar jobs nowadays.
   What went wrong?
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« Reply #13 on: 13 November 2010, 00:28:32 »
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Those computer desks give me a job, though .. I'd quite like them to stay around and not be replaced by a steel press or the like ;)
Any industry needs blue & white collar workers to maintain an equilibrium but it seems there are less & les blue collar jobs & more white collar jobs nowadays.
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Incompetent government, archaic union practice, globalisation and the lust for profit at any cost, in my view.
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Re: Only 8% of Olympics merchandise made in UK!
« Reply #14 on: 13 November 2010, 00:44:55 »
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Yeah but people buy German cars because they are bult to 'quality' (allegedly) ...

I don't recall anyone ever using the same reason to buy BL ;D
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Only for a few short years in the 70's and a lot of lost opportunities that allowed the likes of Volvo to take over the management company car market...if only Rover had made a large family estate things may have been different...... :-/
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