Goods Made in Britain support British Jobs, Taxation and British Growth

Britain historically has been a treasure Island for foreign exporters to sell their goods and services to a British Consumer who seems to prefer the alure of an exotic or foreign label or the cheap and nastiness of a foreign import to something produced by a British worker in a British factory or grown in the UK. Every year for a good part of the 20th Century National Wealth has been leaching out of the UK in the form our unhealthy diet of junk imports. Now I'm a strong believer in the global benefits of free trade and an opponent of tariffs and protective trade barriers which just end up restricting growth and fostering emnity. But Britain can no longer afford to live an a diet of junk imports and the time has come to examine whether we are wasting our money buying that rubbish or designer import when we could be fostering British Jobs, Tax Revenue and growth by buying British.

Countries we buy more from than buy from us.
      Country (2011)             We buy from them        They Buy from us          Trade Debt to finance  %exg

1. Germany                     £41bn                         £27bn                            -£14bn                        17
2. USA                           £25bn                         £31bn                           +£6bn                            3
3. China                          £24bn                         £7bn                             -£17bn                         21
4. Neths                          £23bn                       £19bn                             -£4bn                          10
5. Norway                       £20bn                       £3bn                               - £17bn                       14
6. France                         £19bn                        £19bn                            £0bn                           14
7. Belgium                       £14bn                         £13bn                            -£1bn
8. Italy                             £11bn                         £8bn                            -£3bn
9. Ireland                         £10bn                        £14bn                          +£4bn
10. Spain                           £9bn                          £8bn                            -£1bn
11. Japan                           £7bn                         £4bn                             -£3bn
12. Switzerland                  £6bn                          £4bn                           -£2bn
13. Russia                          £6bn                          £4bn                           -£2bn
14. Sweden                        £6bn                          £5bn                            -£1bn
15. Hong Kong                   £6bn                          £4bn                           - £2bn
16. Poland                           £6bn                         £4bn                           - £2bn
17. Canada                          £5bn                        £4bn                            -£1bn
18. Denmark                        £5bn                        £3bn                            - £2bn
19. India                               £4bn                        £5bn                             +£1bn
20. Turkey                            £4bn                        £3bn                            - £1bn

clearly we have got to persuade Germans, Chinese and Norwegians to buy more british products.


Products Made in Britain

British owned

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Cars (British Jobs, Where)

•  Mini One, Mini Cooper, Mini Cooper S, Mini Cooper Cabriolet, Mini Clubman (4,500 people Oxford,Swindon)
• Vauxhall Astra, Vauxhall Astravan, Vauxall Vivaro (5,000 people Liverpool, Luton)
• Jaguar X-Type, Jaguar XF, Jaguar XJ, Jaguar XK (10,000 people Liverpool, Birmingham)
• Land Rover Freelander, Land Rover Discovery, Land Rover Range Rover, Land Rover Range Rover Sport (9,000 people Liverpool, Solihull)
• Bentley Arnage, Bentley Azure, Bentley Brooklands, Bentley Continental Flying Spur, Bentley Continental GT, Bentley Continental GTC (3,500 people Crewe)
• Nissan Micra, Nissan Note, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan Qashqai+2 (2,800 people Sunderland)
• Toyota Auris, Toyota Avensis (4,300 people Derbyshire)
• Honda Civic, Honda CR-V (4,000 people Swindon)
• Rolls-Royce Phantom, Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe and Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe, Rolls-Royce Ghost (600 people sussex)
• Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Aston Martin V12 Vantage, Aston Martin DB9, Aston Martin DBS, Aston Martin One-77 (1200 people Warks)
• Lotus Elise, Lotus Exige, Lotus Europa, Lotus Evora, Lotus 2-Eleven (800 people Norfolk)
• LTI TX4 (500 people London)

Parts of Cars

•  Ford makes engines in the UK employing 13,000 people in the UK