Oliver Middleton has a useful CAPX reminder of 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
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.
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The aims of trade union leaders are not completely aligned with the aims of their members.
I suspect that the Labour government have been gripped by a desire to simplify a complex world (so it can be controlled) down to a set of aphorisms.
So if "the pen is mightier than the sword" and the swords have been "beaten into ploughshares" then by logical induction "the pen is mightier than the ploughshare".
Clearly when you take a set of short pithy instructive sayings and consider them to be the final statement for everything you can come unstuck.
This issue is, I think, going to contribute more to Labour's downfall than any other - even the Net Zero nonsense, although they are of course closely linked. They know they need growth in order to pay for all those lovely things like benefits, pay increases for public sector workers, machines for putting carbon dioxide under the ocean, and hospitality for millions of low-skilled third-worlders. But they have absolutely no idea how to get it. Nobody in government knows how businessmen think, despite a smattering of economics degrees.
Business is not quite like music, sport, or engineering, where inabilities are instantly and mercilessly exposed. If you can't do these things, people find out very quickly. Making money has a bit of luck to it. But it's much more like these things than winning political arguments is.
Guido carries a list of candidates for Chancellor of Oxford. I couldn't bear to read more than one manifesto but did sigh at "I am proud to have become the first openly gay General in the British Army." Also a thousand miles from a cornfield, eh?
dearieme - I agree, there isn't much value in union membership.
DJ - yes there is a desire to simplify a complex world and without experience that desire becomes pressing, because it's far too late to gain the experience. They are bound to come unstuck.
Sam - and Net Zero will make it worse, like a sport they should never have attempted because none of them can play it.
dearieme - 'proud' as if it was some kind of race. Maybe it was.
Godfrey Bloom has published a Youtube piece on how to grow the Economy, which almost exactly coincides with my own opinions. Trouble is, it's not what the Government would like to do. At all.
Tammly - they don't really want to grow the economy, just control it.
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