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>> Slight correction here - I can afford to buy the car outright but save money
>> using the 0% finance due to spiralling inflation. Instead the cash sits in a savings
>> account and makes me money.
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OK, understood, so why the ire against China ? It has 1.4B people, most of whom are only slowly climbing out of abject poverty. Arguably China also has a democratic constitution, it has a huge logistical challenge (irrespective of the governing party) in governing over distances and massive population centres which I'd contend most Europeans cannot conceive. I am not an apologist for the regime and I-too went to live in the region carrying many of the same views as are asserted above. However experience with the people and their culture has left me feeling that it is rather more complicated than the picture you paint.
IMHO, the real question is what does the UK do next, manufacturing has been lost, financial services won't plug the gap and the world's monetary wealth has (slightly) re-balanced. Your choice of car / laptop / phone isn't going to help unless you're prepared to pay more for it to be UK designed/manufactured so that UK firms can invest in innovation.
As I understand it a Vauxhall Insignia won't be built in the UK and the profits will be appropriated in the US ? Furthermore - the price paid is comparable with a car manufactured (and possibly designed) in the UK which would likely hold its value much better even if the profits were still appropriated abroad (in India, Japan or the US) ?
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