do we make anything anymore?made in britain RIP
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peter
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Sarcastic comments.
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richard p wrote:no the EU make them not us
Like it or not we are part of the EU.
The EU produce a basic rule.
The French pass it into law and ignore it.
The British debate it at length and embelish, embroider and "improve" it, then pass it into law and enforce it.
So yes we do make rules and we also make excuses, the biggest and best being the one you used Richard P.
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Mr Potato Head
UK is still great at making queues, politicians, delays, blunders, sarcasm and seething resentment.
On the upside, the UK is still no.1 in the world as exporters / creators of art, literature, music and computer games!
Perhaps there's a link between the two?!
On the upside, the UK is still no.1 in the world as exporters / creators of art, literature, music and computer games!
Perhaps there's a link between the two?!
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Geoff
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I work at the world's largest fire hose factory and we also make fire fighting foam (famously on the tele at Hemel Hempstead recently) and much other fire fighting and fire protection equipment and almost 70% is exported so it is not all gloom. The only downside is we are now owned by Americans but at least we are still manufacturing in the UK.
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Mr Potato Head
Personally I could eat and drink my way around the best the UK has to offer, a quick list of the top of my head would have to include: clotted cream, bakewell tart, cheshire cheese, wensleydale cheese, stilton, lincolnshire sausage, black pudding, white pudding, steamed pudding, tiffin, parkin, melton mowbray pork pie, jellied eels & liquor, haggis and marmite.
This would be served with a liberal helping of our finest potatoes, strawberries and brassicas and washed down with beer, scrumpy, whiskey and ribena!
Whilst I'm digesting all this, I'll be watching a BBC nature programme Oh yes, the best of British.
(Sadly, when I have a heart attack after all that fatty food, I'll be dead before the ambulance can arrive
Oh yes, the best of British...)
This would be served with a liberal helping of our finest potatoes, strawberries and brassicas and washed down with beer, scrumpy, whiskey and ribena!
Whilst I'm digesting all this, I'll be watching a BBC nature programme
Oh yes, the best of British.
(Sadly, when I have a heart attack after all that fatty food, I'll be dead before the ambulance can arrive
Oh yes, the best of British...)
We sure do make the best
"STIFF UPPER LIPS"
in the world
"STIFF UPPER LIPS"
in the world
I'm with Mr Ph on this. Our country has THE BEST regional dishes in the world. Trouble is food hygeine peeps are stopping producers making some of it. You can't get a traditional Cornish Oggie for love or money, with the fruit course baked on at the end of the pasty. The same goes for a lot of other stuff. They've done just as much damage to the British Food Industry as the soddin' EU has
OK, gripe over, maybe instead of fox hunting they could use an EU rule book and set the hounds on that instead
OK, gripe over, maybe instead of fox hunting they could use an EU rule book and set the hounds on that instead
Lots of love
Lizzie
Lizzie