This is turning out to be a weird election opinion polls gyrating, reputations fluctuating, the unpredictable quickly becomes conceivable, or not. Theres been farce, and sadly, there has been more tragedy in this campaign than weve experienced before. Yet, a week to go to the vote, and it feels as though some of our structural problems have yet to get a mention. So were going to start with one tonight, even at the risk of looking like we are off the subject of the campaign. The question is how we deal with britains lopsided, low productivity economy . For all the rhetoric of us being the fifth, or is it now sixth largest economy in the world, its not firing on all cylinders. Do the labour and conservatives parties really have any idea as to how to improve things . Well ask them that, and some other questions. But first, a quick look at the journey weve taken, and the problem weve arrived at. Through the monstrous scenery of slag heaps, chimneys, piled scrap iron, foul canals, paths. No
figures. quarterly profits, £9.5 billion. it was £4.5 million last year, so it s more than doubled. time for another windfall tax? i time for another windfall tax? 1 don t believe in windfall saxes because they put our future investment. what we should be doing is encouraging other companies to invest in the united kingdom because we need to get our productivity up, we need to get our productivity up, we need to get our productivity up, we need capital investment. what i would do is create low tax investment zones, encouraging those companies to invest in our country. i think windfall taxes and send the wrong message to the world. they don t send the message that britain is open for business, and what we need to do now is use more of our reserves to help people with the cost of living. that s what i would do alongside having a temporary moratorium on the green energy levy to help people with their bills. studio:.
story. i would like you to react to what she told us from wisconsin. here is patty edelburg. we ve had a lot of farmers, a lot more bankruptcies going on. a lot more farmer suicides. these things are highlighting many of the news stories in our local news. but we have more commodities, more grain sitting on the ground right now because we lost huge export markets that we had for 30 years. sandra: she did say she supports this move by the president to go tough on china. but for now there is a lot of pain and the white house is talking about providing aid to farmers and to bail them out because the situation has gotten bad for so many. two points. our farmers are in pain and i m sorry for that. america was born on the farm. looking at the bigger picture, the economy is great. wages are up, income up, gdp up, productivity up. our economy is hotter than a
the year. you get that? think about this. we ll be right back with more of the last word holiday party. biggest winner. bob, these projections. they re. optimistic. productivity up, costs down, time to market reduced. those are good things. upstairs, they will see fantasy. not fantasy. logistics. ups came in, analyzed our supply chain, inventory systems. ups? ups. not fantasy? who would have thought? i did. we did, bob. we did. got it.