UK business too lazy and fat says International Trade Minister

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Glass houses, mate.
 
Regardless of any hypocrisy and that there are some individuals who do make an effort as a gross generalisation he is right - way too much resting on past success.
 
VincentHanna said:
To be fair, a lot of business do finish early on a Friday...

Though a 6 hour working day seems to work for Sweden.
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I actually think finishing early on a Friday is a good thing though maybe wouldn't work for everyone - with my current shifts while it means a 6am start I'm usually finished by 10am if everything is going well or mid-day if we are busier on a Friday - take a nap and then it is basically like a 3 day weekend - and since doing these the productivity KPI for my department has jumped up by an average of 8% so my boss is very keen to keep it.

EDIT: Though it seems to be a favourable idea with the people I work with so it might come down to atleast in the short term people putting in extra effort to try and keep it.
 
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During his speech to activists on Thursday evening he said there needed to be a change in British business culture and said people had got to stop thinking about exporting as an opportunity and start thinking about it as a duty.

"This country is not the free-trading nation it once was. We have become too lazy, and too fat on our successes in previous generations," he said.

He added: "Companies who could be contributing to our national prosperity - but choose not to because it might be too difficult or too time-consuming or because they can't play golf on a Friday afternoon - we've got to be saying to them if you want to share in the prosperity of our country you have a duty to contribute to the prosperity of our country."
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In my view he is obviously trying to expose what he sees as endemic problems that we can improve on to better ourselves.

He could have phrased it differently though because straight away prominent pro EU personalities have seized on it and misrepresented the entire quote and the spirit I was said in.

We need to hear things like this in spirit but I have to admit I don't like the harsh language.
 
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Freakbro said:
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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Lazy or are they happy with the level on income their business brings in for them and have no interest in endless expansion?
 
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I think business people want to do business, not hang around the theatre and general media rubbish of a politician's visit to another country.
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He was referring to businesses that don't export not business people in general, the OP would be more informative if it gave some context to the remarks - but then that would lessen the impact somewhat and not make for as good a rant against brexit/brexit ministers which seems to be the purpose of the thread.

In fact the OP has deliberately misquoted him and not provided any context then just gone off on a brexit rant... the thread is about as useful and informative as the other pointless brexit threads we've had recently.
 
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He's already lining up excuses why he can't get the trade deals promised and create an exaggerated exporting boom.

Think about exporting as a duty rather than an opportunity? What crap, a business will only export if it makes them enough money for it to be worth the time and investment.
 
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muon said:
Think about exporting as a duty rather than an opportunity? t.
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It will be the only way for us to make any sort of money once we lose free trade, the banking sector to Germany, and our currency plummets even further once article 50 is initiated.

I think he is just getting us ready for the absolute ****show that leaving the EU will bring (the worst has not even started yet) :p

He has basically said "You better start working harder and shifting our economy to an export market otherwise we really are *******".
 
If people create and run their own business it's up to them what hours they work not what some fat, work shy, political toss pot tells them they have to do. If it's such a big issue for him create his own business work all hours and try to get his staff to do it as well and see how he gets on. What a complete ******
 
Fox should be more concerned about the following development and listening to his own flipping side: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37315544.

A Conservative MP who voted to leave the EU warned the work could take two decades to complete without more support from ministers.
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The chap who represents the senior civil servants isn't too impressed either. And the government is still playing for time with their official line. No positive attitude will help those who cannot organise a ****** at a brewery! Liam would do well to remember this before trying to stick a cheeky rhetorical boot in and preaching creative destruction.
 
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