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feeutfo

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Made in Britain.
« on: 23 June 2011, 01:41:17 »
Episode one currently on iplayer. A BBC (2?) program broadcast last Monday.

Busts the myth that it's a bad idea to loose our manufacturing abroad.

Go see.

Sports cars, planes, suits and bikes. Mclaren, BAE, Biron and Biron, Brompton.

Personally I think worker mentality is key. But what do I know.  :-X

Anyone see/seen it?
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Re: Made in Britain.
« Reply #1 on: 23 June 2011, 07:52:57 »
taped it as it looked quite interesting - we specialize in high end, high tech niche markets now and let the rest of the world build the mass market stuff cheaply - that BAE intelligent plane stuff looked amazing - thats where i got to before the usual "anything we can both watch on?"  ::)
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Re: Made in Britain.
« Reply #2 on: 23 June 2011, 07:59:55 »
Watched it when it went out.  It was one of those rare programmes that were informative and interesting.

I was not entirely convinced that it wasn't just an argument made to fit the situation but it was plausible.

I always wondered what sort of stuff they teach at LSE.  I guess that must be part of it.

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Re: Made in Britain.
« Reply #3 on: 23 June 2011, 09:44:07 »
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Watched it when it went out.  It was one of those rare programmes that were informative and interesting.

I was not entirely convinced that it wasn't just an argument made to fit the situation but it was plausible.

I always wondered what sort of stuff they teach at LSE.  I guess that must be part of it.

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Spot on. It was a bit too simplistic in its approach but it was going out at prime time so had to appeal to a bigger audience.

I think there are another two episodes.
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Re: Made in Britain.
« Reply #4 on: 23 June 2011, 12:41:53 »
Yes two episodes left.

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Re: Made in Britain.
« Reply #5 on: 23 June 2011, 13:22:53 »
Saw it the other night - very interesting programme. :y
Easy to see how some UK businesses (like the suit manufacturer in Leeds) have to farm out their manufacturing to places like China with production costs so high here and so much lower there due to cheap labour, just to stay in business. :-/
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Re: Made in Britain.
« Reply #6 on: 23 June 2011, 19:43:11 »
So are we a victom of our own success?
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Re: Made in Britain.
« Reply #7 on: 23 June 2011, 19:52:31 »
Globalisation - hard to see a way round it imo. Although, if things carry on as they are, China will be farming production out to us in the future to take advantage of our comaritively cheap labour.
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