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Britain business held back by politicians who have 'never run anything'
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The problem is we have politicians instead of leaders.
Everyone, in every walk of life, hates politics. How many times have you heard a work colleague or sportsperson say that the worst thing about their work/sport is the politics? Or that they like someone because they "aren't political".
And by definition, the people who do best at politics are the people who are best at it. The best at being something we all dislike.
Obviously there are genuine well intentioned guys who go into politics, but by definition most of them lose, since they're playing against people who will happily sell their granny for some power. It's like the Olympics. It's not that the best athletes take drugs. It's that the athletes that don't take drugs are really up against it to get to the final, since they're up against everyone who does.
No different to any sizeable workplace."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Does anyone also think we need some new, young blood with a fresher more media savvy approach to business? I mean, Vince has one or two sensible things to say, but mainly poss due to his age he is trailing round the dusty faded industries of manufacturing - do we need some bright sparks in there?0
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DecentLivingWage wrote: »Does anyone also think we need some new, young blood with a fresher more media savvy approach to business? I mean, Vince has one or two sensible things to say, but mainly poss due to his age he is trailing round the dusty faded industries of manufacturing - do we need some bright sparks in there?
Sure, why not? I remember a bumper sticker: 'employ a teenager while he still knows everything.'
Sums-up quite a few posters on this forum, actually.0 -
DecentLivingWage wrote: »Does anyone also think we need some new, young blood with a fresher more media savvy approach to business? I mean, Vince has one or two sensible things to say, but mainly poss due to his age he is trailing round the dusty faded industries of manufacturing - do we need some bright sparks in there?
Guess the industrial revolution didn't figure highly in your history lessons.
It provided the prosperity from which this country prospered. It was the host on which many parasites existed.
Yes some new hosts have been created but nowhere replacing it, in relative economic size and positive outcomes, across society.
We lost the host but not the parasites. We have been on life support ever since gradually selling off all the assets amassed during that time. When we ran out we simply borrowed against what was left on more than one occasion as both government and banks through common sense out the window."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0
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