There are may products that we need in the U.K. that are reasonable volume but not massive volumes, our country is a relatively small consumer of goods in the great scheme of things and in reality our business is not that important to the Chinese they will nearly always prioritise U.S. orders add to that there growing home market and lead times/lack of quality/lack of accountability and its very easy to see why there will be an increasing manufacturing base here in the U.K. and it is exactly what U.K. PLC needs.

 

its not though, is it

 

as posted above, there's still plenty places that haven't been exploited

 

on the flip side it needs to be somewhere with a relatively stable government, so much of africa is ruled out

But as the demand for certain products increases in developing countries, so will the price, and so will the cost to produce it as the cost of living in those countries increases.

 

Correct and that is what we are seeing in my industry too (shipping). The workers in the Far East and India are getting a liking for luxuries and want pay terms to match and whilst their employers can address this by finding others to accept the low wages the quality is being affected the further up the river they look. we've had to fix a lot of bodge jobs on work in china recently to make them safe never mind up to standard.

as posted above, there's still plenty places that haven't been exploited

 

Correct, one of the companies that I deal with are already looking at moving a lot of their production from Shanghai and over to either Vietnam of Cambodia as the workforce is so much cheaper and land costs two parts of fuck all. It'll be a long while before any real volume manufacturing comes back to these shores.

There's a huge difference between volume and value though.

 

We'll never ship a million dolls heads to India for tuppence a pop, but can send a million quids worth of software to the Eskimos in a jiffy bag.

Not gonna do a lot for the employment figures, though

I see someone else watched the Top Gear China special too

 

China on four wheels too DBP but it's all been well known for years. I can point you to a few Chinese websites which will flog you anything you want including motors that have shall we say 'a certain panache'?

 

But it's true they're screaming out for Western goods. That bloke hired a fleet or Audis and a BM convertible for his wedding at less than £300 for the day! Oh yes, and of course they were all red. Must be big Salford fans.....

Not gonna do a lot for the employment figures, though

 

But indirectly it does. I'm not just on about IT I mean a host of high tech and creative industries which we export to the masses.

 

The more we export the more we generate in revenue, the more revenue there is the more opportunity there is to reinvest in increasing the infrastructure along the various supply chains, the more opprtunity there is for folk in that whole chain to spend in asda the more people they need to fill the shelves etc etc etc

 

It's a snowball effect pure and simple

 

But indirectly it does. I'm not just on about IT I mean a host of high tech and creative industries which we export to the masses.

 

The more we export the more we generate in revenue, the more revenue there is the more opportunity there is to reinvest in increasing the infrastructure along the various supply chains, the more opprtunity there is for folk in that whole chain to spend in asda the more people they need to fill the shelves etc etc etc

 

It's a snowball effect pure and simple

 

And Sheila with the butty van, the pub on the corner etc.

You should watch this, funny as fuck but there's a ring of truth to it

 

 

 

Edited September 24, 201213 yr by derek smalls

That's pretty funny

You should watch this, funny as fuck but there's a ring of truth to it

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ

 

DBP likes this.

Brilliant!

You could watch The Onion for hours.

There's some funny stuff scrolling at the bottom of the reports too.

 

I was, however, sickened by this:

 

I am so sickened and outraged at that I have spilt my brew all over myself.

I've been to Big E's neck of the woods, and the place is buzzing. Fucking thousands of people in the city centre shopping, and spending. Very few scutters, no signs of any real recession. The usual down and outs round the Reeperbahn but they were there and in Frankfurt during what we'd have considered boom times. Compared to Germany, we are already a second world country.

 

Come back here, the trains are fucked and there's not a U-Bahn to my house. Fucking piss poor.

haha. That is superb.

 

"Police plan to re-open the case and find the black man that did this."

 

I'm truly sickened.