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The fact is, Brian, top brands are making heaps of profit. they are paying a mere fraction - literally - for the merchandise they sell. They could easily produce in the West and still make a huge profit without having to increase the prices.
But even trousers sold at £10 a pair here, therefore nothing to do with top brands, could be manufactured in Britain and sold for that same price, leaving a reasonable profit for producer and retailer.
The clue is in the use of machinery, which does most work nowadays.
But even in sweat shops in the Far East, machinery is used, indeed it is ultra modern machinery invented in Britain and the West in general, and probably produced here too.
Unless the blueprints were sent to China and the machines produced there.
So what we get is mass production of textiles from the Far East using machines and people, these paid at sheer rubbish wages, just so the top brands can make even more profit, even though they could have made a reasonable turnover by continuing to manufacture at home.
But our trade deficit is unsustainable on the long run, and our Country's liabilities to benefits for unemployed people is also unsustainable on the long run.
But it is all so that a few can earn massive profits, and these few do not care either for us, or for the people they employ in the Far East.