6 hours ago, Graham Butcher said:

Because something carries the CE mark, it does not mean that it is either high quality or is actually really approved by the authorities in the country it's sold in. It is just a sign that the manufacturer has self assessed their own product.

Organisations like Amazon ensure that they sell items of good quality for the sake of their long term business.

Their are sales platforms were goods of dubious quality, perhaps Temu is one of those and Amazon Haul, their apparent response to Temu, the prices are so low then "Buyer beware" might apply.

I have been over delivered on quality for incredibly low prices on goods from China 🇨🇳 and studied Asian Pacific politics and economics with the OU and seen China trade's rapid progress in volume and quality and they do sometimes sell at below the price that even the Chinese consumer can buy hence, when the UK was in the EU, Anti Dumping, counteracting etc duties were levied on Chinese origin goods.

This is most evident in Chinese EVs imports but since UK left EU they have levied ADD but UK has not hence the massive level of Chinese EV imports even with our steering wheels on the other side !

If you think that Amazon only sell high quality items, no dodgy or fake stuff etc, then you would be wrong, they can be duped like anyone else. Not everything sold on Amazon is actually "sold" by them, they can and do operate like Aliexpress etc and be a shop window for either suppliers, they even ship from Amazon warehouses etc but you not buying from Amazon.

The UK is going to gift the Ukraine many millions more £, (210 Million of Export Finance Support) and nuclear fuel in the form of enriched uranium. apparently this is 'going to directly support thousands of skilled British manufacturing and supply chain jobs.' "The multi-year deal sustaining operations at vital processing facilities in North West England." I smell BS. Lies and untruths. But good to see just how easy it is for the UK to produce Enriched Uranium. The UK is so very wealthy, and energy & resources rich. Maybe it can sort out water companies in England and get building new infrastructure, nit just bail them out. The National Grid actually fit for purpose and owned by the UK nations would be an actual move forward for Energy Security in the UK.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Evolution13