There is literally no other group that even has a chance of changing senior Tory opinion.
No amount of @BestForBritain studies, @instituteforgov reports, or frankly DmitryOpines twitter threads can substitute for business leaders saying publicly what they're muttering privately.
No amount of @BestForBritain studies, @instituteforgov reports, or frankly DmitryOpines twitter threads can substitute for business leaders saying publicly what they're muttering privately.
I have all the sympathy in the world for business leaders who at the moment are:
a) far too busy keeping their companies alive; or
b) terrified of pissing off the very government whose largesse they'll depend on to get through the next 12 months...
to speak out.
I get it.
a) far too busy keeping their companies alive; or
b) terrified of pissing off the very government whose largesse they'll depend on to get through the next 12 months...
to speak out.
I get it.
But there's no alternative. There's no one to free ride on.
No mysterious alternative group of people at the intersection of "understands importance of transition extension" and "actually listened to by Tories sometimes" exists to speak out so you don't have to.
No mysterious alternative group of people at the intersection of "understands importance of transition extension" and "actually listened to by Tories sometimes" exists to speak out so you don't have to.
This is not something you can hide behind @CBItweets or @The_IoD on either.
They are fundamentally consensus based organizations who are only ever going to be as aggressive on these issues as their most conservative, defensively minded members.
You have to step up. You.
They are fundamentally consensus based organizations who are only ever going to be as aggressive on these issues as their most conservative, defensively minded members.
You have to step up. You.
"But I'm speaking out privately!"
Yeah, and that's not nothing but it's not remotely enough.
Right now they can credibly claim this is what business wants.
After they do it, they're pretty convinced you'll be pragmatic and keep silent because the damage will have been done.
Yeah, and that's not nothing but it's not remotely enough.
Right now they can credibly claim this is what business wants.
After they do it, they're pretty convinced you'll be pragmatic and keep silent because the damage will have been done.
