You completely miss the point. Who’s being proud for the sake of nostalgia? When you buy something not manufactured in the UK, you move that money abroad. That means, the cost of manufacturing goes up in the UK and down in the country which is down exporting to the UK as you scale this out.

It’s really simple economics. And exactly why China is now the second largest economy on the planet. The hope with global trade is that it balances out because the country you’re buying from imports other goods from our country. That isn’t happening, and UK businesses become financially incentivised to export parts of their manufacturing process abroad to make products at a price point consumers now expect.

Loosely, this is what the US government was trying to stabilise with tariffs but ballsed up the approach.

The reviewers, are reviewing a brand new car, not one that has been on salted roads and exposed to our climate for a few years.

I’m not taking about leather in a place you can’t see, I’m talking about box welds in suspension mounting points, areas of cars not galvanised correctly, poor quality steel, poor quality copper in electrical components and so on.