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Given that if there were a burgeoning technical textiles industry in the UK, it probably wouldn't be located in your community or affect anyone you know.
There's not a burgeoning technical textiles industry in the UK, there's a declining one. Which is affecting people I know actually, I know several people who are expecting to be made redundant in the near future. They aren't in my community, they're in Chesterfield, but I know them. Actually I can't help thinking this debate would be VERY different if you had it in a pub in Chesterfield, not a London-centric fixie forum.
I already set out the differences - carbon emissions, health and safety standards, tax etc.
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It may not be racist to not want things made in China but it is definitely nationalistic, which I am not a huge fan of either.
Given that if there were a burgeoning technical textiles industry in the UK, it probably wouldn't be located in your community or affect anyone you know. So what's the difference between helping Chinese people with their local economy or helping a British person with theirs?
As has been noted the vast amount of the profit for Rapha does stay in the UK. They are a design and marketing company, not a textiles producer.