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Excellent documentary on the artist in residence at a football club last season, in part shows what it is really all about (no Sky pundits or armchair fans) https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-football-club-artist-in-residence/episode-guide/

Nope, more of a case that Korea and Japan are successful economies with I expect a decent standard of living and still making competitive high end products, although I believe that a lot of Japanese companies now manufacture in China. Spose you could say similar about Germany, Sweden, France (although they box clever on protectionism and are perhaps coming a little unstuck).

Oh, assumed that this was a team in the Tour de France. Seriously (it's a cycling brand). http://www.4za.com/en

Boris bike's were Ken's legacy. Boris will also leave one like it or not. For whatever reason Londoners voted him in twice - not just that Ken made it too easy. More challenging than the safe seat of Uxbridge. We are at least not in the American system where the newbie overturns everything that the predecessor put in place.

i > > Were you thinking of Billy Connolly? > https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p055vwcr (58" > video) Perhaps subconsciously!

Interesting but I don't think Doc Martens are any cheaper than when they were made in the UK so perhaps they simply make more profit shifting to China. Other stuff of course - economies of scale, decent engineering, cheap labour. where does Japan fit into the equation? And are not labour costs going up in Korea?

Most of you aren't getting my point. I'm not going out of my way to buy British, I am questioning how we got to where we are (I am sure it is not all free markets and globalisation) after the half assed policy put forward by Jezzers. I did in deed find Rega turntables on the made in Britain website as I was wondering if we still made good hi fi as we did 30 years ago. Right, hope that is perfectly clear now......

But how much do we as consumers, and retailers/manufactures put the boot in? Ie we have a product that can compete but marginal increase in profit margins, or destructive competition, put an end to it. Mr Sainsbury, these Stoke on Trent mugs at ?3.50 are just too expensive. I want to save 47 pence.Or why buy a quality product when I can get something cheap and nasty. Noting that imports are as high a quality as the retail chain wants. There must be a stationary buyer who orders crates of pencil sharpeners that don't sharpen from China just because they are cheap. I'd forgotten Raleigh.

Scroll down to picture 7. For those who hate links without a description it is from 100 Uses for a Dead Cat (this counted for humour in the 1980s). I was looking for a large bottom but couldn't find one. https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/bike_racks.asp There were some brilliant bikes painted, decorated and hung in various places when I saw Stage 6 of the Tour. Can't find any nice photos. But if you have time on your hands (Rendel?!) then perhaps this could be a nice project with dumped/damaged yellow bikes.

Bring it on. Saw plenty yesterday when on the ride in London. Anything that further encourages cycling is great. If this business model fails then so be it. Not sure why some of you want to denigrate whole sectors of the population (apart from those who voted Brexit of course, has to be exceptions) with the use of words such as chavs. What are you doing to solve these great divides (hide in your gated communities). Sorry digressed there. Parking irresponsibly far greater a social evil. Love and peace.

Turn use water when cleaning your teeth, fluoride in the paste will have greater benefits too. Don't run the cold tap waiting for it to get cool. Use that water and have it in the fridge. As long as you haven't got any lead piping which you should run for a while first thing in the morning. Well that was the view 30 years ago.

In deed I would have put the source down if I could find it. Think it was on the BBC news but a quick Google search couldn't find it. Tried Channel 4 news too. Anyway I did see it honest, hence my particular interest. Problem is with any harvesting I have to pump the water up hill if either to the toilet or to water the garden. Not sure how easy it is to rig something up.

Yes I saw it hence my posting. Kinky boots are also still made in Northants and they made a film (and now a musical) about it. Any views about the bigger issues?

Special orders as they have kept some of the equipment and retained some of the staff. 99% made in China. You could argue that they had a niche and were not being undercut by cheap imports so why relocate production?

Corbyn's new strategy to win over the masses. We bought British cars where I grew up. British Leyland. They were shite. As were much of the audiovisual and white goods. So was it bad product, consumers choosing to save a few quid, or retailers maximising profit that put an end to much of our production? And is Corbyn a messiah or just a very naughty boy? Dyson moving out. A twit in any case. I bought socks, pants and shirts that were British, in M&S. Happy to pay the price. They moved production and finished off what was left of the UK textile industry. Loved Doc Martens. Moved production overseas Believe it or not Levis used to produce in the UK but as with their American plants long since shifted to the developing world I used to have a lovely British suit from Gap. Probably the equivalent of ?800 nowadays. Now you can get slightly inferior ones for quarter of the equivalent cost from wherever. The one that upset me was the loss of the potteries, cutlery, and hand and garden tools. Bladdy good quality stuff. I did buy a British turntable (Rega, from Billy Vee in Lee). By chance.

Saw on the news that a water authority in the North was funding some rainwater harvesting - large tanks in the garden and then water pumped into the house to flush to toilet. Great I thought until I saw the price - ?1000s. Probably save $20 a year on the water meter and 500 years to pay back. Hmmm. (currently using bathwater to water the garden plants - OK first thing is not to have baths)

They don't engage with you, the phone goes dead. Scam companies don't work like that.

Sue, I am sure that can find conspiracy sites where the UK is bending over backwards to accommodate Russian interests too. Which we are.

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I always say when asked about the accident I was > in ? what the one I died in? yes that wasn?t good? > and the other week a lady actually said ?this is > serious you know? to which I replied ?yes, so is > being dead? to which she put the phone down. > > Bloody cheek, I nearly rang her back. Like it! I'll try this one.

What sort of travelers? New Age ones are particularly great, remember them fondly (or maybe not) from the 1980s.

Thanks, sorry on reflection this is a bit self-indulgent. Must be the heat.

S'truth I make so many mistakes typing. Spell checks and the like have been a Godsend and helped improve my spelling and grammar no end. Yet I am prone to silly typos, as I see when I reread some of my posts. I explain this as I can touch type and much of what I post is a brain dump. The simple answer is not to send things immediately as I have learned (or learnt?) with e-mails. Do I have a syndrome? Am I special? I could Google this but hopefully will get some interesting views. In old school days if I was writing by hand I would not make the same mistakes as typing. And I immediately spot it when others make basic mistakes/typos I did try a hand written letter in the recent past and found it so hard.... (not intended to be Briticism of those with dyslexia)

Thank you for some informative posts ladies and gents. It can be difficult to read between the lines of my (and many other) posts which range from cheeky, mischievous, rude, but quite often helpful and supportive. There are some excellent perspectives on this thread on the mire that we are in/facing Just to add a few views of my own, what really pees me off is the whole denigration of a sector of our population. Having a fairly modest upbringing it was great that I had an environment where I could be the first in the family to go to university. Dad assumed that I would leave school at 16 and go into a trade. Until a teacher (my word a Pakistani teacher as well) told my father that I had to stay on and do Maths A level. I digress slightly as my father was a product of his time, yet would happily take the advice of an educated immigrant. Yet know people like me are sneered at by some of the popularists (is that a word?) as being the evil intellectual elite. A generation ago I would have been a role model, including working my summers as a mental health nurse or picking vegetables (jobs now seen as being beneath many of those who sneer at me). Hope this comes over as honest and not pompous.

I liked this thread when there was some decent discussion. It has been incredibly informative. Now just seems to be links to tweets and on-line articles ie other people's views. Fine to support arguments but better to know your take, which is often very well framed. No I don't need an answer cella.

Stick to the thread you twits. Is the builder called Kevin? PM if so, Whilst sounds civil, the attitude is rather aggressive so maybe contact the community police. I've found bizzies this side of the tracks very helpful. Maybe also write to Trading Standards (OK old school) asking if the builder is known to them. Rock and a hard place here as TS should be providing more help and taking action against unscrupulous tradespeople, but are so under resourced. Sadly Lewsham didn't even respond to me - I found the TS officers on Linked in but got no response to direct e-mails (which were all very polite). I'm halfway through getting a resolution with Kevin. There may be a point when you want to name and shame - I don't like doing this and in theory this can be defamation. But eventually.... Good luck against the bullies