Time to get real or we face being left in economic desert

It is about neglect and contempt for British business, the product and the working man who actually makes the product.

You cannot run a country on the parasitic activities of hedge funds who will make billions speculating on the failure that they inflict by “shorting” on the high street, its shops, workers and the core culture of the country.

Shorting is betting in advance on failure of companies by various stock selling moves that become self-fulfilling prophecies.

Jezzer Corbyn make yourself useful and include banning shorting in your manifesto. Failing that, tax it and pledge to redeploy the proceeds into reducing or, even better, abolishing business rates on high street retail or we will not have a high street.

The function of an opposition party is to make the current political party more efficient through constructive criticism, not mucking about and behaving like school kids on the last day of term in Commons debates.

I will not vote for you but in the absence of any realistic alternative I would suggest your party voices support for the workers at Airbus UK who have huge pride in the product.

I have been round the plant in Toulouse and the people there were stunned to hear that we have a real respect for the company and its culture.

They thought that we held the company in contempt and were not that “bothered” about them. I explained: “No, that’s the people that run the country, not the working man”.

I know all this because my brother was a main board director of Airbus in between various pub-related activity in Ellesmere. I can categorically say we missed out on huge opportunities with that company which could have transformed Shropshire. Less said about that then.

Now we are facing an economic desert with Brexit. Time to get real. Even the Queen appears concerned. I would respectively suggest, Your Royal Highness, that a few royal words would not go amiss.

Robin Lloyd, Ellesmere

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