RE: Major Shareholders5 Dec 2018 11:26
KRSS,
All politicians are clueless IMO, none have business acumen that is needed to run a country for its people, look at the US now they have a leader who knows how to do a deal, Trump is not so stupid to realise all the money from US is being fed directly into the Chinese economy with nothing coming back in return. I’ll exclude the debt the Chinese buy out of the money they have syphoned from the west.
Think about some of the policies adopted by the west, there’s plenty of dumb ones but I’ll pick up on the free (almost) postage that China benefits from when sending a package to the west, it’s tab picked up by us here in the UK, or US as they are an emerging economy. That’s clearly ridiculous, the Chinese economy is the second largest in the world, benefiting from our contribution. Many here cannot compete with Chinese imports that do not adhere to UK rules and regs and majority do not pay the appropriate taxes either, choosing to commit a criminal offence by entering false information in order to avoid taxation.
MA although successful cannot single handed save the high street, but whilst you can buy something on amazon direct from China, delivered to your door, cheaper then we here in the UK can post it says there’s an issue. Further without proper taxation being paid it is a complete unfair bias towards those exporting. This amongst other things, such as business rates, needs addressing in order to save the high street.
Trump was smart enough to realise the how these little things impact significantly to his people, he’s tackling head on and whilst many don’t like his approach, imo it is about time politicians put their voters first and other counties interests second, or create a level play field for all.