We need to recall conservative principles of independence, self-reliance, duty and patriotism, then frame them as a programme that makes government smaller but better and the economy bigger and faster
The thing is, the big spending works. The US increases the national debt by $1T every 100 days and yet here we are... When it finally breaks apart we just reset and do it again. How do you convince people to be financially astute when recklesness has no consequence that they'll ever see?
I was in business for 25 years working for a US company. I can tell you the primary criterion which decides whether a company locates, relocates, expands or sets up is taken by the key executives, is, ‘Does my family and I want to live there? What is the housing like, the schools, healthcare, amenities, safety, what are the people like.’
Regeneration schemes which will be determined by social considerations - affordable housing, good for the local community, blah, blah, blah - won’t score high on the do I really want to live there and or move my family there? Which is why so many business want to be in the South.
Is this basically an argument that Truss was right?
The thing is, the big spending works. The US increases the national debt by $1T every 100 days and yet here we are... When it finally breaks apart we just reset and do it again. How do you convince people to be financially astute when recklesness has no consequence that they'll ever see?
I was in business for 25 years working for a US company. I can tell you the primary criterion which decides whether a company locates, relocates, expands or sets up is taken by the key executives, is, ‘Does my family and I want to live there? What is the housing like, the schools, healthcare, amenities, safety, what are the people like.’
Regeneration schemes which will be determined by social considerations - affordable housing, good for the local community, blah, blah, blah - won’t score high on the do I really want to live there and or move my family there? Which is why so many business want to be in the South.