| ▲ | n4r9 6 hours ago |
| James Dyson advocated for Brexit on the basis of supporting British industry, and shortly afterwards migrated the company HQ to Singapore. |
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| ▲ | klelatti 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| And to prove it is possible to have a profitable vacuum cleaner manufacturing business that makes its machines in the UK - long live Henry! https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/24/how-hen... And unlike Dyson they are almost indestructible! |
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| ▲ | celsoazevedo 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I had a part-time job as cleaner when I was younger. We used Henry hoovers. They were used and sometimes abused 5 days a week... during the almost 3 years I was there, I think I only saw hoses and the floor head breaking. So after going through a few hoovers at home from different brands, I bought a Henry for £100 3 years ago. The nose/hose detached after a few months. Not ideal, but I've fixed that in minutes with a bit of superglue. No other issues since then, no indications that it's about to fail. I don't know if quality is still exactly the same as before, and they're certainly a bit heavier and noisier than some alternatives, but if you want something that lasts, get a Henry, not a Dyson. | |
| ▲ | _joel 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Few years back (before covid) I splashed out on a fancy Dyson. Worst vacuum cleaner ever. I'm sporting a Vax now, quite good, even runs VMS. | | |
| ▲ | klelatti 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Ha! Very good and unlike say Windows it doesn't suck. | |
| ▲ | falkensmaize 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Miele vacuums are better performers than Dyson, and cheaper too. | | |
| ▲ | 0_____0 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Never understood the hype with Dyson. I suspect that like many successful hardware businesses, their story is mainly of brand strength, not of actual product quality. If you pick up a Dyson vacuum you'll notice that it just feels flimsy in the hand. I think they're aggressively cost-engineered- the material you save by designing molded parts to be minimally thick has got to be like tens of cents to a couple dollars over the whole machine... | | |
| ▲ | klelatti 42 minutes ago | parent [-] | | The brand is built on Dyson being a super genius inventor. He might be ingenious but he's applied to devices where it's not really needed and with unpalatable trade-offs. In the UK at least his actions (offshoring, Brexit and tax) have probably significantly devalued the brand with a key part of his core demographic. |
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| ▲ | osrec 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What's VMS? | | |
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| ▲ | n4r9 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Great article. Especially loved this > “I love you,” Jess said above his cot one evening before lights out. “I love Henry,” came the reply. | | |
| ▲ | klelatti 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | We have a pre-schooler and am happy to confirm that our Henry is a favourite member of the family. Just as important he's sufficiently strong to withstand our boy's curiosity :) | | |
| ▲ | drcongo 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Our Henry is the moral enemy of both our dogs. They don't like vacuum cleaners anyway, but when it can look at them, it's even worse. |
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| ▲ | polytely 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I've been using one of these and it is very good. |
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| ▲ | KoolKat23 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I'm nearly certain he believed/believes in the Britannia Unchained folks type nonsense. Brexit, then ECHR exit, deregulate like crazy and exploit everyone and their mum. So long as GDP goes up. |
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| ▲ | tonyedgecombe an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | He was just sore because the EU put limits on the energy consumption of vacuums. | | | |
| ▲ | arethuza 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I don't think "Britannia Unchained" manages to achieve the level of nonsense. | | |
| ▲ | robtherobber 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Oh, it's even 'better' than that. To quote from an article in the Guardian: It’s a short book but if you read it you’ll see that a decent editor could have got it down to one sentence. “When we seek to protect the vulnerable we limit the freedom of the rich and the privileged – and that is a disgrace.” It’s a wretched read – a series of assertions and hunches freed from the chains of argument or evidence, with the intellectual rigour of a YouTube conspiracy rant. The prose occasionally soars to the level of clickbait, as in its most famous sentence: “The British are among the worst idlers in the world.” Most of its authors are now cabinet ministers in a government that no one would call exactly Stakhanovite. | | |
| ▲ | tialaramex 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | To be fair they're ex cabinet ministers. The current shambles are Labour and that book was written by Tories. But you're correct that they weren't exactly Pick of the Bunch Tories, Liz Truss in particular has the unenviable distinction of having been Prime Minister for such a short period that a lettuce famously outlasted her. |
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| ▲ | _joel 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not sure how enforced self-sanctions make GDP go up. | | |
| ▲ | KoolKat23 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's where the exploitation comes in. You cut every cost so that the cost is lower to make up for it. Cut taxes, employee salaries, social welfare, pension, environmental protections, legal protections, net profits go up. After all more valueadd, and increased production is more important than the actual human beings this valueadd was originally intended to benefit. |
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