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Originally Posted by rogermevans
hmm
that's not quite the same i would happily buy British or made in Britain on all those but its not as simple as that the car maker you want a car from may well manufacture some models here but maybe not the size or type you want but if every one started buying only from here and those abroad only bought from their country soon those jobs would likely end up disappearing from both countries
where as foreign call centers :P are just about reducing costs to push up profits and are taking away from British jobs ( and only mean that in the sense of jobs available in this country and not that they have to be only given to people who qualify under the old rules for BNP membership  ) |
It's more similar an argument than you think. Nobody sells into the UK market without employing at least someone here to handle sales and marketing operations. Wherever whether the company is UK based and offshoring some of its operations, or foreign based and simply selling into the UK, there are always both domestic and foreign workers involved.
My main point is, I don't think we can afford to be selective about our principles. The TVs, cars and computers we all used to use were once all made here in the UK. Now, for the most part, they aren't. And it's all for the same reason - the foreign stuff is cheaper and often better. Our manufacturing sector disappeared overseas, and now our service sector is following it.
My dad made this same 'Buy British' argument about cars, because he couldn't stand the thought of such vast amounts of household spending going straight into the pockets of a foreign company. As a result we always had BL vehicles, and therefore we were often without a car at all as they seemed to spend so much time in the garage.