PP wrote:
"FWIW I used to ride a (modern) Truimph motorbike. I loved it and was very proud it was made in the UK."
But then, for the last few years Triumph have made very, very good bikes- you could justify buying one even if it were japanese or korean or whatever else. And that's something to be proud of, not just british manufacturing but class leading british manufacturing, at the right price to boot.
What annoys me isn't "buy british", it's "Buy overpriced and british" or "Buy inferior and british"- and there's a lot of that around frankly. Quite a lot of it comes with a Hope sticker on it. I don't call that patriotic, I call it stupid…
And just possibly, if not racist then at least bigoted- there are people who assume that british is best, my grandad bought a Rover instead of "far eastern rubbish" for instance, which of course turned out to be an unreliable, tinworm infested piece of ****. But because it was british he assumed it was better than some foreign jonny's effort, and even after it dissolved he was still convinced it must be good as it was british, and a japanese car would have been even worse.
But, where there's a worthy UK product, why not?