This week it's the Tories' turn.
Take it from me, it sounds good but it won't work this time either. Rather than trying to speed things up in certain areas, you have to look at all the things that the government (and the NIMBYs and Greenies and quangocrats) are doing to hold back progress and then just stop doing those things.
Tuesday 9 March 2010
The white heat of technology, part 94
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Just another bandwagon Cameron has jumped on MW. Like most of the Tory ideas, not a lot of thought goes into it.
It seems their only thought is how they can 'control' it.
And brownies (not Gordon Brownies, though those too)
Really irritates me how Dyson poses as a champion of British industry as well, when his company make a living selling vacuum cleaners made in the Far East.
To adamcollyer: The production of something is not just its physical production. It includes also the service of designing it, bringing it to market, supporting it etc. These factors or all part of production as is the manufacture of the good itself
Is the Q you are really asking one of the how much production goes into making it than the rest? If 50/50 thats not really a problem is it so long as that fact is not covered up
WFW, but the bandwagon went off the rails forty years ago, had he not noticed?
AC, indeed. That's icing on the shitcake.
RS, I'm with AC on this one. If he went to the trouble of campaigning to have the costs of doing business in the UK reduced so that he wouldn't have had to relocate manufacturing abroad, fair enough. But what Dyson is asking for is quite specifically subsidies for his own R&D department (which is probably still UK based). Bloody good vacuum cleaners though.
Never mind the NIMBYs and the Greenies, its those bloody Quangoes that are holding the country back with their endless spewing of regulations to justify their existence. At least in the C18th and C19th you didn't actually have to do anything when awarded a sinecure by your chums in power. We'd be better off if we went back to that system.
B, sure, it's them as well. And the bankers. And the EU. And so on, and so forth. All the 'rent-seekers', basically.
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