UK business too lazy and fat says International Trade Minister

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So Liam Fox, whose job it is to oversee the new trade agreements we are going to have to negotiate with the rest of the world, thinks that British business leaders are "too lazy and fat who would rather play golf on Friday afternoon than promote their business."

Well....I've got to say I'm so impressed and filled with confidence that these numpties in charge have a coherent plan and know what they are doing....:rolleyes:

Unsurprisingly Downing St has distanced itself from the comments saying they are Liams private views not one of the Govt.

I mean, for gods sake, we're getting told all the time by Leavers that Britain is the dynamic powerhouse of an economy that the rest of the world is clamouring to do deals with...and here we have the guy in charge doing us down, telling the rest of the world we are fat, lazy and indolent off our historical success.....gg :rolleyes:

I guess those historical successes include the ones we got while part of the EU single market...?

Then when you look at the British productivity puzzle....maybe it's not just Business leaders who are fat and lazy :p
 
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Jesus ****ing Christ do you have to make a new brexit thread from every tenuous link you can desperately scrape from any news article?
 
Tefal said:
Jesus ****ing Christ do you have to make a new brexit thread from every tenuous link you can desperately scrape from any news article?
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Umm, yes since the one Brexit thread has been locked? The decision seems to have been made that we do create individual threads....which plenty of people are happy with.

So if YOU don't want to talk about it and multiple threads upset YOU... then don't click on the ****ing thread, simple no?
 
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llamadal said:
Liam ain't wrong.
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ReltonBFD said:
Link the video/voice clip.

Didn't disagree with a word of it . Good on Liam Fox
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That's part of the point though, if it is true it goes in the face of all the Leave campaign saying how we are this dynamic, trading country who were held back by the EU and now ready to take on the world on our own two feet...and also, it's not really something we should be saying "in public" (Liam knows his comments will be reported) and admitting it to the people we want to do deals with, is it?

I'm pretty sure employees have been sacked for saying less negative comments about work on facebook! :p
 
My current ceo would dump all over his theory I'm afraid. Some other senior and executive management...not so much. But she'd definitely be proving him wrong!
 
It would help if MPs lead by example rather than being out of touch, overpaid and then still partial to mucking around their expenses accounts.

But hey, "do as I say not as I do" is far easier to say.
 
He actually makes a valid point. Remember the UK has one of the lowest rates of productivity amongst G7 countries. This is largely due to cheap cost of foreign labour and low interest rates making borrowing very cheap for big businesses. The result is that big biz is not being motivated to invest in innovation/. Instead they are borrowing to acquire assets and writing big paychecks to management. Hard economic times, or higher interest rates, should should force companies to lean out their operations. That's my theory at least.
 
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