I will be giving a lecture on How to get faster UK growth on Friday 24 th January at All Souls  College Oxford at 11 a.m. This is free to those interested. The All Souls College website is www.all-soulscollege@ox.uk  and will contain mire details nearer the event.
January 15, 2025
But will anyone in government be listening. I very much doubt it.
January 15, 2025
Ian, on January 11 you wrote “Read the private members bill which is wending it’s way through Parliament.
That intends to count emissions on all imports and exports with transport costs calculated from the port of origin”, and I would like to do that but I have been unable to find it. Please could you post a link to it?
January 15, 2025
Well Stamer, Lammy and Reeves all set on killing the economy – but then we had 14 years of the Con-Socialists doing all the wrong things very nearly as bad.
For growth ditch net zero, drill, frack, mine, halve the size of the state and taxes, have a bonfire of red tape, high skilled immigration only and get the government out of the damn way please.
January 15, 2025
The last government that tried to cut the state back was Thatchers but even she failed hugely. She even fell for climate alarmism, close loads of grammar schools, appointed daft as a brush Major as Chancellor let him join the ERM against the wise advice of JR and Sir Alan Walters!
Major through to Starmer the UK leadership has all been appalling. All climate alarmist, socialist, big state, tax to death incompetents, often pointless warmongers, vaccine and lockdown fools and often liars and/or crooks.
January 15, 2025
Good morning – Again
Will there be a recording (audio / video) of the event ?
Reply I am asking the College if they can do that. Last time there was not.
January 15, 2025
Thank you for the heads up.
Good luck.
January 15, 2025
Perhaps Rachel from Customer Services should attend.
January 15, 2025
I think that the URL should be https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk!
January 15, 2025
The AI overview on gaining faster growth is:
• Nutrition: Eating a balanced diet providing nutrients helps your body reach potential height. Exercise assists.
• Sleep: Getting enough helps too.
• Posture: Practising good posture also assists.
• Hair care: Eating more protein, products with caffeine, and reducing stress promotes faster hair growth.
• Business: Researching target markets, investing in workflow automation, and developing marketing and sales skills help business grow faster.
• Agriculture: Dividing a field into zones based on expected yields helps increase output growth.
AI’s overview doesn’t mention what Labour would achieve in spending and wasting even more on the public sector. Labour’s increased NI charges and taxes on business and hostility towards farmers signals inept carelessness, likely to achieve growth only into further decline.
January 15, 2025
Sir John
For give me if you think I am wrong. In essence we need a UK that is managed by those that wish to serve and provide a future by ensuring the Country is a competitive uncomplicated hub to create wealth. Free of cumbersome clutter that inhibits the individual to be the best they can.
What it doesn’t need is personal religious ideology imposed on it. We need proper management not politics. I would go as far as saying our political structure, the political parties have become self-destructing of the UK. In the World we compete, we compete as UK.plc, not Socialist dogma that we have seen from those that call themselves the main parties. The UK needs to be managed as UK.plc if we are to create wealth, resilience, self-reliance and a future. The background noise, the personal religious fervour created in Parliament inhibits the UK, as it is about self-gratification and ego and not the Country and its People
January 15, 2025
There is a feeling from the outside looking in that some MP’s think they are not there (Parliament) to serve, but there to be political ideologues, disciples of their ideological religion – sending a message, what terrorist do if you like. When in the real World of competing Nations, they are the electorates board representatives of UK.plc. They serve on the Board of what could be a great company if they just realized the World is bigger than their small backwater clique. They are running a business first and foremost its very survival relates to its earnings from the rest of the World
January 15, 2025
The College really needs to come into the 21st century and make your lectures available on zoom so more of us can attend, albeit remotely.
A Zoom meeting is much more sustainable and, frankly, nobody wants to come to Oxford any more because of the Council’s traffic management and parking charges. Then there are the issues of cost and the time wasted travelling.
I have enjoyed coming to two of your previous events, but for me it is a 140 mile round trip and in all it effectively takes up the whole day.
January 15, 2025
Could it help if we terminated the independent central bank experiment initiated by Gordon Brown in 1998?
Now that we are out of the EU we will definitely not be replacing the pound sterling with the euro so there is no point in continuing with his scheme of changing our monetary control system to fit in with the EU system.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/our-values/independence/html/index.en.html
The government could use the Bank of England to promote growth, rather than the Bank working against it.
January 15, 2025
I imagine you have already got the basic talk detailed as to how to get faster growth Sir John.
Looking at the current numbers I am sure any of us could present a lecture on how to get faster growth that the present zero performance by Rachel and Co.
My main suggestion would be reduce taxation, reduce the need to import energy by pumping our own from existing on shore and off shore reserves and of course repair infrastructure so people can actually do business without breaking their suspension and wheels on unkempt roads.
You could always chat about ESG, DEI, GFANZ, Net Zero, etc, but why complicate a simple matter like wealth creation and growth?
January 15, 2025
Well, we are enjoying the benefits of doing the exact opposite of what is required to create economic growth. What is required is not a debate but the wisdom in government to implement all you and most of your contributors advocate.
The real debate is how do you distribute the results of successful economic growth across those who contributed to it. For sure it needs to be done in a way that allows those contibutors to run and enjoy their lives without recourse to government involvement. Government are for defense of the realm , law and order,and support of those in genuine need. Government have been taking a gross commission on enterprise and hard work for their failed versions of what a well rewarded less predated upon citizen could better provide for himself. We might better revert to family as the best building block of society. Said because fragmented society is a mess that is not getting any better.
Enjoy your debate, precied as stating the obvious, but caveat it with what you do with that wealth you wish to create.
January 15, 2025
Cut spending, cut regulation, cut energy prices, cut taxes. The opposite of what Labour want to do.