Walterp
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The Telegraph, no less, runs with a report about the UK's Foreign Secretary's response to business's concerns over the failure of his Government to enunciate a plan for the country's commercial interests.
His simple expletive obscures a complex truth - over a period of 20 years, most Brits have lost any understanding or sympathy with national wealth creation. They, like Boris, understand and worship wealth creation on a personal level, but have lost sight of the truth that no man is an island: if the country gets poorer, we all (except Boris, naturally) get poorer.
I used to pin this on the expansion of the public sector and big business, which insulates its employees from economic realities.
But that's wrong - disdain for the public good is strongest in English agriculture which, rather bafflingly, largely depends upon its being a public good for its future survival.
You see it all the time on TFF: 'fudge 'em', 'I don't give a toss', 'bring it on', 'short term pain ' form a litany of contempt for prosperity from those who (in the words of a more rounded Tory) have never had it so good.
So next time you think to yourself 'the country has gone downhill', look in the mirror for the reason.
His simple expletive obscures a complex truth - over a period of 20 years, most Brits have lost any understanding or sympathy with national wealth creation. They, like Boris, understand and worship wealth creation on a personal level, but have lost sight of the truth that no man is an island: if the country gets poorer, we all (except Boris, naturally) get poorer.
I used to pin this on the expansion of the public sector and big business, which insulates its employees from economic realities.
But that's wrong - disdain for the public good is strongest in English agriculture which, rather bafflingly, largely depends upon its being a public good for its future survival.
You see it all the time on TFF: 'fudge 'em', 'I don't give a toss', 'bring it on', 'short term pain ' form a litany of contempt for prosperity from those who (in the words of a more rounded Tory) have never had it so good.
So next time you think to yourself 'the country has gone downhill', look in the mirror for the reason.
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