There comes a time
in everyone's life when you just feel you HAVE to do something
about a situation that displeases you. Well, this is MY time!
It must be an age thing 
The final straw came when I tried to buy some new
business shirts. As usual, I prefer to buy British so visited a
long established shirtmaker with a particularly long history of
shirt making.
To my dismay, upon enquiring, every ready-to-wear shirt was made
in the Far East! (not that I have anything at all against the
Far East, I am just not as pro-Far East as I am pro-British).
My immediate reaction was one of sadness.
Can they not see that they are cutting off the supply of money
to the very people that they rely on to buy their products?
We can turn that argument around
and ask - can consumers not see that if they consistently buy
foreign made goods with no thought as to where the money is
going, they are restricting the purchasing power of the
customers of their own business or the business that they work
for?
Enough of the doom and gloom,
let's look at the other side of the coin.
In whatever field you
care to mention, British skills and British brains are at the
leading edge of industry and commerce worldwide. We may only be
a small island but we have the
skills, we have the creativity, right here on our doorstep. The
Best Buy British website attempts to bring these attributes to
the forefront of the consumer's mind so they can make a fully
informed purchase, be it British made or not.
If we each choose well, and
we each buy well then we will all live well.
[Adrian]
