IT’S JUST SO BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS! Britain is just a bad bet when it comes to investment. Why? Well, who the hell would want to invest in a country which deliberately left the most successful market in world history? Who would want to invest in a country whose government thinks that a trade deal with Trump’s America is going to be more beneficial than rejoining the EU single market? Who would want to invest in a country that embraces neoliberal economics, and locks itself into perpetual austerity? Who would want to invest in a country that has become an industrial wasteland, that has deliberately destroyed its industrial base and hadn’t had a meaningful industrial policy for decades? Who would want to invest in a country with such a high levels of poverty and deprivation, a country where successive governments have ignored an inexorable rise in inequality and, out of choice, done nothing to halt it? Who would want to invest in a country with a political system that delivers governments that don’t represent majority opinion, a country that has been badly governed for decades by an abysmal, unimpressive and self-serving political class? The reality is that Brexit broke Britain. Until it’s undone, investment will be elusive as will growth. The politics that delivered Brexit and now refuses to undo it, is broken too. The duopoly that has governed Britain since the end of the war is dead. What comes next is uncertain. The disaster that is British politics could continue, and could get worse, but we are in a place which rarely occurs - politics has totally failed. Its big guns have been spiked. People need new political homes. What we have now is a unique opportunity for real change to happen, We have to make it happen. New political parties, new talent, new ideas, a new beginning. All we have to do is to recognise where we are, recognise the opportunity and embrace it. Let’s do it!