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| Clemmo Member Since: 03 Aug 2012 Location: Mile Oak Posts: 1219   
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From day one all lateral flow tests have come out of China.
They give us the virus… then sell us a method of detection 😣 For sure why can’t we make these Clemmo  Make today a little better than yesterday but not so good as tomorrow....
Defender 90 HT............Pangea Green BMW X3 Msport............Carbon Black Mini Electric................Grey. (wow!) MGB Roadster……..........Vermillion 17k miles Honda Benly CD200....Maroon --------McLouis Fusio........7.4m of fun |
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23rd Sep 2021 5:11pm |
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| What puddle? Member Since: 25 Oct 2013 Location: Reading Posts: 952 
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There was a YouTube video of a large company in China making surgical masks immediately the virus hit - said that the company was making a fortune from covid.
Don't get me started. Now left. |
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23rd Sep 2021 5:13pm |
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| Zed Member Since: 07 Oct 2017 Location: In the woods Posts: 3324 
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Our government and UK companies have chosen outsource manufacturing and buy from China rather than support our own economy and people. British incompetence and greed is to blame, not the Chinese. WARNING.
This post may contain sarcasm. |
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23rd Sep 2021 7:39pm |
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| 90 Dreamer Member Since: 13 Jul 2019 Location: Oop North Posts: 2169 
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Its been going on-going for years........
Sell the water companies to the French, military / defence services to the Yanks, Steel to anybody that'll pay...........  |
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23rd Sep 2021 7:53pm |
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| Zed Member Since: 07 Oct 2017 Location: In the woods Posts: 3324
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Yep, it's a tragedy.
Last week I read that GKN automotive in Brum is being closed and their manufacturing moved to Europe. WARNING. This post may contain sarcasm. |
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23rd Sep 2021 8:23pm |
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| MartinK Member Since: 02 Mar 2011 Location: Silverdale (Lancashire/Cumbria Border) Posts: 2665 
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Consumers share the blame too! Don't buy the Chinese tat! Defender "Puma" 2.4 110 County Utility (possibly the last of the 2.4's) |
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24th Sep 2021 3:41am |
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| What puddle? Member Since: 25 Oct 2013 Location: Reading Posts: 952
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As a business, we took it upon ourselves to never buy anything Chinese. Even the pipe fittings we use are made here in Britain. It's very difficult to do, though. We asked a supplier whom we had used for five years to verify the source, but they wouldn't, so we stopped using them. Even then, it's hard to be 100% sure. We were sent a Xmas card last year (purchased from Marks & Spencer) which was printed in China. How can that be economic - for M&S to have their cards printed in China? Even if it is, does it really save a lot of money when the UK printing sector is actually quite competitive?
I should add, though, I have a Chinese electric bike which is just great, and the UK-based retailers themselves are Chinese - and they were very good. I was impressed with their level of service. Now left. |
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24th Sep 2021 7:59am |
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| markb110 Member Since: 22 May 2010 Location: Guildford Posts: 2644 
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Amazon are the pits for this at the moment
Some items aren’t even stocked in the UK now and are sent directly from China. Product reviews are all over the place ranging from good to utter crap, some items use the same description, photographs, but different seller names (Chinese) and wildly different prices. It was so much simpler in the seventies when all you had to worry about was whether to call yourself a punk, a teddy boy, a mod, a hippy or a rocker………. |
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24th Sep 2021 8:44am |
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| What puddle? Member Since: 25 Oct 2013 Location: Reading Posts: 952
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...or Hell's Angel.
I'm 62. Bit annoyed a few weeks back. Ordered something from Fruugo (which amazingly is British), but got an email to say (after we ordered) that it was being dispatched from China!!! Took two weeks to get here. Now left. |
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24th Sep 2021 8:47am |
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| MartinK Member Since: 02 Mar 2011 Location: Silverdale (Lancashire/Cumbria Border) Posts: 2665
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Saw something in a paper a while ago like this:
Sadly so true. Most whingers about the economy/nhs/british jobs are the Kia buyers who do nothing themselves to help the situation ! Turkeys voting for Christmas springs to mind! Defender "Puma" 2.4 110 County Utility (possibly the last of the 2.4's) |
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24th Sep 2021 9:32am |
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| What puddle? Member Since: 25 Oct 2013 Location: Reading Posts: 952
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It comes down to what you can and can't buy. I'm elsewhere on this forum stating that I would no longer buy the Grenadier after Ineos decided to make it in France. For me, that was a big purchasing point. Similarly, the Defender is built in Slovakia. I keep toying with the idea of buying a Ibex, with one of the main reasons that it's built in Britain (though Foers don't return my emails). But there are things you simply can't buy British - like my electric bike. I wanted a folding bike. I even tried to get a UK female bicycle builder to make me one, but she wouldn't. We gave up on trying to buy a bread machine as every single one is Chinese - even the Japanese ones. Now left.
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24th Sep 2021 9:56am |
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| 90 Dreamer Member Since: 13 Jul 2019 Location: Oop North Posts: 2169
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you can start by avoiding Amazon and save the planet a chunk of CO2 in the interim...........
hateful...... |
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24th Sep 2021 1:22pm |
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| What puddle? Member Since: 25 Oct 2013 Location: Reading Posts: 952
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Yep, already do, we even have a message about it on our website, and ebay, and PayPal!
Fruugo looks like a British version of Amazon, which is good, but we can't figure out how to sell our products on there! We tried the process, but had to give up. Now left. |
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24th Sep 2021 1:51pm |
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| MichaelE Member Since: 18 Jan 2020 Location: Crawley West Sussex Posts: 155
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How many HSBC customers don't know what it stands for? Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Regardless of its distribution and diversification around the world, it is still ultimately Chinese owned and its allegiance lies with the Chinese government and their stance on Hong Kong, Taiwan, minorities and dissent. If I had been one of their customers, I would have dumped them long ago.
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24th Sep 2021 8:30pm |
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