Chapter 1532 – Britain Doesn’t Raise Lazy People

“Your Highness, won’t you consider contributing to the vitality of the British economy?” Alan Wilson, who was holding his sister-in-law in his arms, lowered his head and asked, this is a good opportunity, as an important member of the royal family, Princess Margaret should support the current government’s right choice.

In fact, the first sale of shares of British Petroleum, is indeed surprising, state-owned enterprises naturally have their own problems, but the oil sector of the state-owned enterprises, should be considered the British state-owned enterprises among the smallest problem, but was Mrs. Thatcher as the first privatization of the enterprise, common sense can not be said.

But when you think about it, there are a lot of things that can be said, precisely because BP is considered a quality state-owned enterprises, the problem is considered to be the smallest among the British state-owned enterprises, sold out to everyone to share the cake is more appropriate, and everyone who can buy shares will be happy, because this is a destined to be a great deal of money to make a lot of money in the business.

The choice of BP as the beginning of privatization, rather than touching the coal, steel and other hardcore, on the merits of the consolidation of supporters of the role of a little more.

The female prime minister is still far from unifying the world, even within the Conservative Party there are countless opponents, consolidate the basic disk to make everyone happy is the most urgent task.

Everyone is happy, only to coal and steel those industries with strong trade union support, the choice of oil can let people feel that the female prime minister is serious, but also can consolidate support.

Perhaps there are already a number of people in the Conservative Party who are ready to throw their hat into the ring, but then, privatization is ultimately a matter of strength, and Britain’s most capitalist groups are already raring to go.

Perth Mountbatten Tower, this Australian landmark building conference room is already full, the conference room is large enough, in the usual even look a little empty, but today is a little small, the people who have come to whisper, speculating on the purpose of the spiritual leader to find them here.

At this exact moment, the door of the conference room was pushed open, Pamela Mountbatten’s figure appeared, if Alan Wilson was here, said what must not be given to the richest woman with a God of Gamblers BGM, to highlight the wealthiest person in the British Empire, the spiritual leader of the aristocratic class, the love of his life, Ms. Pamela Mountbatten’s aura.

The conference room, which had been somewhat humming, fell to a pin drop the moment Pamela Mountbatten appeared, “Gentlemen, all here, it seems that everyone is looking well, this Australian environment feeds the people. It is delightful to see everyone so.”

Making some opening remarks, and not expecting a response, Pamela Mountbatten took a paper from her daughter, “I’m sure you’re all aware of the results of the election on home soil. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Geoffrey Howe, took out the 1979 Annual Budget in the House of Commons, along with a number of questions about the inefficiency and waste of Britain’s nationalized companies. Most importantly BP will be the start of privatization and is going to be selling a portion of its shares to be used to recoup funds to increase the financial strength of the government.”

With that said Pamela Mountbatten allowed the others to digest for a moment before stating her claim, “Everyone’s knighthood comes from the Queen, while wealth is attributed to individual self-struggle and hustle.”

“Pamela, we all followed in your footsteps to Australia and benefited from your full support in our struggles, and that will not be forgotten.”

“Duke Lunster, the fact that everyone is able to have the wealth they have today, although it is related to the trust placed in me, it is mainly due to their own innate excellence.”

Pamela Mountbatten replied with a modest response before asking rhetorically, “Wealth is there, but it is only a necessary component of a widely respected position. Wealth is important, but respectable status is even more important. This privatization movement that the Conservatives have started is an opportunity for us to be respected by our citizens again.”

In later times BP was a private company, but it took a long evolution to get there, and Margaret Thatcher was not prepared to sell all the state-owned shares of BP in one go, but rather a portion of it, this time twenty percent of the state-owned shares.

After this sale, BP is still majority state-owned.

After the Cabinet was informed of the sale of the proportion of shares, Alan Wilson felt that it is not bad, finally a good start, what must not pay attention to a gradual and orderly it, the beginning of the 20 percent and later 100 percent is not contradictory.

Of course the sale of state-owned shares is not without limitations, must be a British citizen to buy, Alan Wilson went to Downing Street ten forced to chatter, Rhodesia is not considered a citizen, Newfoundland is not considered a citizen, there is a Malaya it.

“In that case, the inhabitants of these three places do not count as British citizens.” Alan Wilson took out the diary he was carrying, he was a civil servant who was going to write his memoirs after retirement, it was normal to carry a diary with him alright, it wasn’t like this was some kind of demonstration against the Prime Minister, it wasn’t like he had his wallet out.

Since the Prime Minister himself said that the residents of the three places mentioned above are not considered British citizens, the government should also do its duty. The Conservative Party is only the ruling party of the British mainland, although it represents the British government, it does not represent these royal territories that respect the Queen as the monarch, which means that the influence of the Conservative Party is only limited to the mainland, and it should not intervene in the overseas territories.

After all, there’s another example right next to the UK, France at this point is doing reserved seats for overseas colonies, Algeria has National Assembly seats that fit the population, and while the vast majority of seats are held by French settlers in North Africa, people really do, and in turn the UK doesn’t.

Since neither Labour nor the Conservatives have any intention of sharing the benefits, the British government theoretically can’t interfere in the affairs of these overseas royal territories.

Newfoundland has its own parliament, Rhodesia its own armed forces, and Malaya its own Conference of Rulers, and you, a British Prime Minister, had better not interfere.

This language trap has been structured, but do not have to say too much with Mrs. Thatcher, Mrs. Thatcher’s top priority, or solidify their own support, change in the eyes of the public a transitional figure in the impression is the right thing, later involved in the power of the Overseas Territories in the time of concern is not too late.

Absorption of currency to depress inflation steps, Alan Wilson and Mrs. Thatcher still have a common view, there is no doubt that now the Bank of England should be carried out to raise interest rates, Mrs. Thatcher believes that interest rates in the interest rate to reach ten percent in order to effectively alleviate inflation, of course, the public finances must be scaled back, but where is the money to come from it, sell state-owned enterprises.

In fact, the response in monetary policy are similar, just a few steps, interest rate hikes, tightening of the silver root and the sale of state-owned enterprises, not only the United Kingdom to do so, the Reagan period of the United States action is similar, except that the United States is really no state-owned enterprises can be used to liquidate, the sale of state-owned enterprises to be omitted in this step.

However, countries with state-owned enterprises are generally similar to Britain’s actions, such as India, a big country with a strong reputation under the leadership of Modi, which promotes privatization when it is short of money, and sells the shares of state-owned enterprises when it needs to cash in.

I don’t know how many state-owned enterprises in India can be used for sale, if all the state-owned enterprises in India are sold out, the old fairy’s ambitious blueprint is still unsuccessful, then India’s problem can be a big one.

Mrs. Thatcher has been in power for less than a month, has been moving a lot, the British inflation should also rise currently has come to eleven percent.

Alan Wilson has fully understood the female prime minister’s grandiose blueprint, but also said that in strengthening the defense force is very much in agreement with the Conservative Party’s views, “the plan of the Raging Storm fighters on board the ship, may need some technical support from the United States side, and if we do it ourselves, it may take more time.”

According to his idea, it was to move the Typhoon fighters onto aircraft carriers as carrier-based aircraft, but so much for the military accumulation of supreme authority. The Ministry of Defense informed him that it would be easier to get even a Raging Wind on board than a Typhoon, and that it would be possible to communicate with the U.S. After all, the f14 fighter was a variable wing, and the Raging Wind was a supersonic variable swept-wing fighter as well.

Shipboard aircraft usually use mature and reliable, simply put, more outdated technology, because the restrictions at sea are really greater than on land, it’s best to take a conservative approach. It might be easier to change the Rapids around a bit than it was to move the Typhoon onto an aircraft carrier.

“Not a bad idea.” If Alan Wilson’s accumulation of military knowledge was limited, Mrs. Thatcher was not as good as him, and as soon as she heard that there was an opportunity to practice the special relationship between Britain and the United States, she immediately agreed.

“Regarding the interest rate hike, I’ll go talk to the banks.” Alan Wilson knew that this was something that should concern the Minister of Finance, but he thought it was fine for him to be concerned.

Mrs. Thatcher opened her mouth, once she saw that Alan Wilson had already made a big deal, and ultimately did not say anything, which if the other cabinet ministers see it will never believe, because in the eyes of Mrs. Thatcher there is no time to compromise, but now surprisingly appeared.

“The Prime Minister still sees me.” Alan Wilson is full of energy, he also knows the nature of the prime minister people see annoyance, when leaving, Alan Wilson also met Mrs. Thatcher’s son Mark, almost no hesitation to call him, “Mark, what do you think about the sale of public housing?”

After the Labor Party came to power, the various local governments in the United Kingdom built a large number of apartment buildings of a welfare nature for widows, widowers, low-income earners and the unemployed to live in foster homes, with extremely low rents, or even no rents, which took up a large amount of the country’s funds.

Since it was the Conservative Party that came to power, I, Great Britain, don’t feed lazy people, and one of Margaret Thatcher’s policies was that this batch of up to one million units of public housing would all be sold off to collect money to ease the government’s financial expenditures.

“Sir, I was not aware of this.” Mark was a little shy, stating that it was not his place to ask about government decisions.

“Successful people have flexible minds, Mark, I see that you possess some of the qualities of successful people. If there’s anything you don’t understand, feel free to find me.” Alan Wilson nodded his head gently.