Department of Fancy That!

Like Philip Salter, I dinnae often agree with Gordon Brown. But fair’s fair (especially the morning after a brutal by-election thumping), here’s some of what the Prime Minister had to say at the Google Zeitgeist conference  this week:

The two great protected industries of the moment are the two industries that are causing us the greatest problems today: the oil industry, with a cartel run by Opec; and the food industry, with high levels of subsidy that are preventing prices for people that at are at a realistic level, and preventing people from producing in countries and continents like Africa at a level that they should. And we need to have flexible markets there.

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So here we have this contradiction. We know that the only way we can have a successful globalisation is following the principles of your industry – open, flexible, inclusive, empowering.