A thousand miles from the cornfield.

Oliver Middleton has a useful CAPX reminder of the distance between Labour government business rhetoric and its ideological distance from the reality it purports to be promoting.


Don’t be fooled, Labour still don’t understand business

• Louise Haigh called for a boycott of a law-abiding firm while asking it to invest £1bn in Britain
• The aims of trade union leaders are not completely aligned with those of business leaders
• A government which constantly talks Britain down does nothing for boosting investor confidence

President Eisenhower once remarked, ‘Farming looks mighty easy when your plough is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield’.

As someone whose first job was on a farm, I concur with Mr Eisenhower.

The whole piece is short but well worth reading as the supercilious amateurs pretend to understand business while remaining a thousand miles from the cornfield.