Re: Commission acts to guarantee UK Consumer rights under the Guarantees Directive

["Mark McCall" <Mark@xxxxxxx>]

> The UK has done remarkably well in many sectors in keeping
high-end,
> specialist manufacturing going. Everything from Rolls Royce, Bentley
or
> TVR, to Linn, Meridian or B&W.

Aren't Rolls and Bentley owned by BMW and VW now?  Last thing I heard
the
largest UK owned car manufacturer is the one that makes the black
taxis!

> The mass-market, price conscious end is ALWAYS going to flow to
the
> cheapest labour cost areas. That means that the US has lost its
> manufacturing to Mexico, and everyone is now losing to East Asia.

Exactly, and this will happen with the more up market products you
quote
too.    Quite a few people don't realise that often the
non-uk plants are
far superior too.  In clothing, engineering and countless other
industries
the UK plants are "legacy" ones.  Where the plants in
Africa, Asia etc are
brand new and state of the art.  Producing higher quality at lower
prices.

M.

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