If you shook off a Westminster yoke, what would you replace it with, a Barnsley yoke?

Politicians tinker and the real controllers of destiny, commerce, take political proclamations too seriously. Government tries to be light touch and fails, yet ironically is as influential as if their light touch actually worked. Bankers worked this out years ago.

People used to ask why my company bought out and invested in a factory in Italy, given the Mickey Mouse politics there. Simple. Nobody takes Italian politicians seriously, except UK media who somehow think Italians are as fascinated by their politicians as we are with ours. The commercial interests in Italy get on with providing jobs. Competitively in terms of factory gate prices whilst providing higher than EU average wages. On the back of that success, a further 30 UK jobs in distribution.

They / we still do. (I stepped down 11 years ago but still a non exec')