I Am A Bit Of A Lefty

In My Job I Meet Many Outstanding, World Class, British Based Companies. But We Need More Companies And More Jobs In The Companies We Have.

I Know It Sounds Trite But I Wanted To Make A Difference. Political Debates With My Father Had Been Fraught Because He Was Uncompromising And Explosive But If He Taught Me One Thing It Was To Air My Views.

Many Of Our Problems Are Home-grown. Gordon Brown Regularly Advised The Rest Of The World To Follow His British Model Of Growth. But The Model Was Flawed. It Led To The Highest Level Of Household Debt In Relation To Income In The World.

If The Pendulum Swings, It May Swing To A Combination Of Conservatives And Liberal Democrats And, Thus, To A Period Of Minority Government Or Coalition, In Some Form.

The Economy Has Become Seriously Unbalanced. Its Growth Has Not Been Driven By Investment Or By Overcoming Britain's Long-standing Weaknesses In Investment And Productivity, Particularly Skills. Instead, There Has Been A Binge Of Debt-financed Consumer Spending.