Post Covid....Buy British?

[andymadmak]

Some folk are muttering about boycotting Chinese goods once we get back on our feet after Covid19. Hot air? Well intentioned but meaningless?
Do we have a choice of genuinely British made goods to replace the Chinese products? If so, list them here.
If not British, should we favour Irish made goods? German? Dutch? American? Australian? French? Italian? What?

[csd19]

I don't think the UK has enough of a manufacturing base solely devoted to the type of cheap tat we demand from China to keep up with demand...

[anonymous-user]

Will be interesting to see Johnson’s stance towards eg Huawei & other Chinese industry.
Batflu gave him a kick in the nuts. Pregnant girlfriend holed up for 12 weeks. Both due to Chinese eating/hygiene habits. Again.
I’d tell them to go forth & multiply!

[garagewidow]

Come back 1970s,...all is forgiven.

[anonymous-user]

Yeah let’s see how that goes......

[Terminator X]

csd19 said:

I don't think the UK has enough of a manufacturing base solely devoted to the type of cheap tat we demand from China to keep up with demand...

Imho demand across the board will go down. Mix of new knowledge that we don't actually need so much tat in our lives + the finances of most people being decimated for years to come.

TX.

[Hoofy]

Only if people are happy to buy the equivalent of a Goodmans smartphone for £600 and the equivalent of an Apple for £2500. (As you know, all smartphones, cheap and expensive are made in China and people are paid 5 crisps a day.)

[vaud]

I think we will see a temporary rise in nationalism for products.

China will see losses to Vietnam, Thailand, etc for production and some "last mile" construction in construction (a la Apple in Texas IIRC)

[IanJ9375]

Hoofy said:

Only if people are happy to buy the equivalent of a Goodmans smartphone for £600 and the equivalent of an Apple for £2500. (As you know, all smartphones, cheap and expensive are made in China and people are paid 5 crisps a day.)

Goodmans smartphone - you'd know it would come with the instruction manual for a different model or the correct one but not in your language, charger would be for the old model which has been superseded and the box would have had someone else's number or name on the box so you knew it had been returned already lol

[dmulally]

garagewidow said:

Come back 1970s,...all is forgiven.

[mikeiow]

I do like to hope that the smaller greengrocers, butchers etc do well when this comes to pass.

Like many, I suspect, we tend to buy all food at <Tesco/Morrisons/Aldi/insert chain here>

The queues at those have been horrific at times....whilst the corner shop and local greengrocer have been a pleasure to shop at (self distancing, of course!). Chirpy chatter....heck, I bought a celeriac 'cos it looked interesting, and the kids made some great food with it!

I know there will always be an element of sliding back to the old ways......but I hope to "shop local" more.

[king arthur]

Hoofy said:

(As you know, all smartphones, cheap and expensive are made in China and people are paid 5 crisps a day.)

Some are made in Vietnam.

[thebraketester]

I am going to try and not buy chinese tat... especially tools. I doubt its 100% possible but I am going to give it my best shot going forward from now

[Tryke3]

vaud said:

I think we will see a temporary rise in nationalism for products.

China will see losses to Vietnam, Thailand, etc for production and some "last mile" construction in construction (a la Apple in Texas IIRC)

Do you think you can find the workforce and infrastructure just like that ?

[coldel]

How far do you go though? Probably every electronic device sold in the UK has some sort of Chinese built component in it somewhere. Put the boot on the other foot, if we were the start of the virus, would we be thinking 'hey I cant blame the rest of the world for boycotting us' or would we be thinking 'bloody hell what stupid small minded people there are out there' ...

[Weezywee]

Numatic vacuums (Henry)
Dualit toasters - not the kettles!
Land rovers
Nissan Suvs
Most chemicals are made in the UK or EU

[coldel]

Weezywee said:

Numatic vacuums (Henry)
Dualit toasters - not the kettles!
Land rovers
Nissan Suvs
Most chemicals are made in the UK or EU

But Nissans are full of Chinese parts arent they? It was in the news recently that cars had to stop being built due to a shortage?

[Ultra Sound Guy]

I’ve just had a random check on various products around my house ( including some Hi -tech work stuff I have here). There’s a random selection of manufacturers, British, French, German, American and Chinese.
All were manufactured in China, with the exception of my Haier (Chinese company) fridge freezer, which was made in Italy.

So how do we propose to boycott Chinese products?

[powerstroke]

I think most stuff is or has Chinese components one industry we could help is tyre manufacturing the chinese are getting their
hooks into the market but we can still get non chinesse tyres , mind sadly for the consumer price is king and for industry short term gain and hang the future ..
so for instance car makers shun the local widget maker and chinese get the business ...

[coldel]

Ultra Sound Guy said:

I’ve just had a random check on various products around my house ( including some Hi -tech work stuff I have here). There’s a random selection of manufacturers, British, French, German, American and Chinese.
All were manufactured in China, with the exception of my Haier (Chinese company) fridge freezer, which was made in Italy.

So how do we propose to boycott Chinese products?

This is the issue, how far do you go? Electronics for sure are the big one. Even the ones which were 'assembled' in other countries will still contain Chinese parts, so does that count?