An Englishman and hisTea-Bags

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The English like their tea as you know but money is tight so I'm buying the budget Tea-Bag boxes now. Branded tea, even though it comes from the same places as the cheap tea, notably Asia, is very expensive here and some brands you can pay up to 7 cents ( 5p) a bag! Yorkshire Tea (a region of England) can charge £4.50 for 180 bags by branding them coming from Yorkshire. But there are zero tea crops in Yorkshire let me tell you but that branding alone allows then to charge silly prices. I buy a generic range of 80 T-bags for £1 in a local convenience store chain but what bugs me is the bags tend to break or release some tea at the bottom of the cup for you to choke on. Baring in mind these bags are created and sealed by a machine then why the hell can this machine not do its job? It does its job with the more expensive T-Bags ( which I can use two of three times to save money) but not the cheap ones, Therefore I can only presume that they deliberately set the machines to use thinner materials and weaker seals to encourage people to buy expensive T-Bags, presuming the cheaper ones are made by the same robots in the same factories. the fact they use robots for 90% of the production and packaging processes means they could put the robots wages up to do a decent job. A good cuppa sets an Englishman's day up and Im not happy folks.