Britain 'too lazy and fat' says Trade Secretary Liam Fox

[LeftishBrit]

Britain is "too lazy and too fat" with businessmen preferring "golf on a Friday afternoon" rather than contributing to the country's prosperity, Liam Fox has said.

The international trade secretary's remarks, at a Conservative Way Forward event, were recorded by the Times....

"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." ...


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37324491

[LeftishBrit]

1. All I can say is, May has LITERALLY put the Fox in charge of the henhouse!

[non sociopath skin]

2. “I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working ...

... I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.” (Jerome K. Jerome)

The Skin

[T_i_B]

3. If Liam Fox wants British business to export more....

.....then he will have to abandon the policy of leaving the EU as the EU single market is the thing that makes exporting goods easy.

I campaigned for "Stronger In" precisely because I want to keep things as easy as possible for British exporters, without foreign governments charging duties on British goods or excessive export paperwork.

[RogueTrooper]

4. Ironic shade

coming from a man who's never worked in the private sector.

[Ken Burch]

5. Which, to Fox, means people should be paid less, so they can buy less food.

How dare the plebs have three meals a day?

(below is posted a picture of Fox in an earlier private sector job)