Andrew Marr has written a piece for The New Statesman (HERE) titled An Optimists Guide to Brexit which demonstrates perfectly why journalists should stick to talking about things they know.
He says we should be optimistic about our future prospects and thinks the government should have a more "direct influence on business and industry generally" something he says "politicians have been talking about since the 1970s, from Harold Wilson to George Osborne, to relatively little effect".
He talks about the "lack of German-style support for industrial manufacturing" and "Some of the measures the left would like to take to support and protect the steel industry, or engineering, or to enhance our growing advantage in robotics, are made impossible not by British Conservatives, but by EU regulations on competitiveness and state funding".
One can only shake one's head at the sheer wrongheadedness of it all. If he thinks Germany's success is all down to government support and that we have a growing advantage in robotics he is truly living on a different planet to the rest of us. Either he has made it all up which would be bad enough or he's been talking to industrialists who think like that, which would be even worse. As for the government influencing things - God help us!
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