Identifying and Aiming for Britain’s Best Prospect

Abstract

Mass unemployment is not an inevitable fate; nor is the social division it brings. If a nation concentrates its energies on the efficient production of what people want, it can hope to achieve both a sound economy and a cohesive society. And its citizens will then have their best chance of being employed in rewarding jobs for much of their lives.

‘Nothing is more common, or more stupid, than to take the actual for the possible — to believe that all which is, is all which can be; first to laugh at every proposed deviation from practice as impossible — then, when it is carried into effect, to be astonished that it did not take place before.’— Sydney Smith (1810)

‘The Continent will not suffer England to be the Workshop of the World.’— Benjamin Disraeli (1838)