Chapter 473 Convincing the Prime Minister

Any more than that, Alan Wilson was a civil servant, and he would not have objected, at any time, to the emergence of such an institution.

It was like a problem in Britain a few decades later, most British people were against the aristocracy, but at the same time, if the view of the royal family alone was taken, most British people were pro-royalty.

On the one hand the British know that it is unfair that the aristocracy exists, but it would only be detrimental to the UK if it didn’t have a royal family in existence, because the only bond the UK can show in front of Canada and Australia is that the Queen of the UK is still the Queen of Canada and the Queen of Australia, and leaving out the royals the British don’t have any capital to put up a fight in the rest of the English-speaking world.

It varies from country to country, and for Britain the country is made up of efficiency and nobility.

The king represents nobility and the government represents efficiency. The King is accountable to God and the Government is accountable to Parliament. It is only when the two complement and support each other that the country can be long-lasting, stable and prosperous.

If this Overseas Asset Management Board was in the hands of a group of civil servants, Alan Wilson felt sure it would be better than in the hands of a party, and he then felt that in a parliamentary system, parties were simply a natural weakness. It can be influenced by all sorts of factors.

It can even be said to be a model of incompetence, of which Britain is only the average of the lot, and Japan is the real set-piece.

Although in Alan Wilson’s eyes, Japan was nothing more than a Spanish level country, but it did not prevent him from making a contempt for Japan, and something as important as colonial resources should still be put in reliable hands.

Norman Brooke was very satisfied with this attitude and said that he would immediately communicate with Prime Minister Adderley on this issue.

Alan Wilson, on the other hand, said that he had some suggestions for this Overseas Asset Management Committee, a body that would allow the head of the civil service to go through this department and directly link up with the nationalized enterprises in the major colonies for the purpose of mobilizing the resources of the colonies.

Integration and optimization will be carried out, and the local companies will be interfaced to complement each other’s strengths.

Of course these nationalized enterprises are overseas, and will not form a conflict with the local companies, but one thing is for sure, when the bank loan, the nationalized enterprise loan is relatively easy to a lot of, nearly a demand. This is the biggest advantage of state-owned enterprises over private ones.

“Moreover, honorable Sir Norman, it is also possible to give orders directly to colonial enterprises through the Overseas Assets Management Board, which is much easier than just conceptualizing the Imperial Preference System.” Alan Wilson, with a look of admiration, analyzed the benefits of the emergence of this committee, certainly for civil servants.

“Alan, it’s not all benefits, any power and duty are related.” Norman Brooke said with a reserved face, “If opponents use monopoly as the focus of their attack? How can that be explained?”

“Sir Norman, first of all, these overseas enterprises are not always monopolies, and even if they are monopolies or near-monopolies, with monopolies come very heavy burdens. The Overseas Assets Control Board is in a position to ask for money directly from the enterprises, without going through the procedure, just an executive order.”

Alan Wilson opened his mind to explain, “And the payroll of these enterprises must be very tightly controlled so as not to create a gap between the rich and the poor. These overseas enterprises have a lot of non-profit functions that private enterprises don’t have, we can’t be like the United States, one-sidedly hostile to this business model, it’s detrimental to the national interest.”

Norman Brooke nodded in his mind and committed these words to memory, ready to use them to persuade Prime Minister Airdrie. The benefits of Labor being in power came into play now, and if the Conservatives had been in power, it would have been much harder for Norman Brooke to get this done.

“I was wondering who would be more suitable to run this committee, there are a lot of people in Whitehall, but not many suitable candidates.” Norman Brooke looked as if he had unintentionally slipped up.

Although Alan Wilson did not recognize that this was probably the most important question and answer he had ever faced in his life, instinct drove Alan Wilson to give a categorical answer, “Anyone but you Sir Norman, who has that prestige, would be unsuitable.”

“Oh yes, well, I’ll take your word for it then, and I hope that wish will come true.” Norman Brooke brought with him a buttery smile and said, “Work out a proposal with me in the next few days, and we’ll meet the Prime Minister together then.”

“Oh, I’m simply honored.” Alan Wilson had a glowing look on his face and then left the Cabinet Secretary’s office under Norman Brooke’s approving gaze.

It was the United States, not the European countries, that could not tolerate nationalized companies at all, something that was different between Europe and the United States during the Cold War, not to mention the fact that it was now the Labour Party in power, and that Prime Minister Alderley had pulled off such a large nationalization campaign on his home turf.

In the colonies it’s even easier, you don’t even have to take money to sell private businesses for nationalization, just set up a business and say it’s owned by the state.

The label private enterprises give themselves is to have a sense of crisis and exercise. Private enterprises to the state-owned enterprises label is to eat and wait for death, no sense of crisis. However, it seems not to be clear that the sense of crisis and crisis are two completely different concepts.

The so-called sense of crisis is to think of danger in peace. Emphasize, is to live in peace! Then think of danger. Private enterprises are doing, is another matter, the last elimination, the welfare is very poor, no performance get out, in the final analysis is to create a crisis, to get the interests of the maximization.

Let’s say that a state-owned enterprise and a private enterprise are standing on the beach at high tide, and the state-owned enterprise tells its employees that they have to walk to the high ground, or else they will be drowned.

The private enterprise kicks its employees directly into the sea and lets everyone flop to the shore. Then the private enterprise said, look, my employees are exhausted, your employees are not even wet pants, it is simply waiting for death, no sense of crisis.

Of course nationalized enterprises have problems with nationalized enterprises, and Allen Wilson certainly knows that the private sector’s attacks on nationalized enterprises are not entirely unjustified, except that the private sector never talks about its own problems.

Fortunately, the scope of application of nationalized enterprises in this meeting is the most basic mining industry and other raw materials. And are overseas, will not expand the UK’s domestic already sizeable nationalized enterprises.

Only, the hookup of the state-owned enterprises that is the hookup, the hookup of private enterprises is generally called – ability. Employees of nationalized companies nodding to their leaders are treated as bureaucrats. It seems as if a worker at US Steel meets Derek and is no harder on his back than an employee of a nationalized company.

The most civil servants like is stable, nationalized enterprises are certainly more stable than private enterprises, the big deal is that the losers go to do the bench, the possibility of rising again exists, although most of the cases are not possible, but theoretically there is such a possibility.

As for the private sector? Failures are usually fired, talk about a bullshit comeback?

So nationalizing businesses can be a great fit for the civil service community, especially now that Adderley is in power and doing his best to mitigate the damage that the Great War has done to Britain, it’s just the right time to put forward this idea.

A week later, Alan Wilson followed Norman Brooke, came to 10 Downing Street, looking for the Prime Minister to discuss about the establishment of the Overseas Asset Management Board, to persuade the Labour Prime Minister to endorse this matter.

Looking at the material thick enough for a palm, Prime Minister Adderley coughed softly, “In short, it is the establishment of nationalized enterprises in the major colonies, which will have a boosting effect on the economy of the homeland.”

“Of course, Honorable Prime Minister.” Norman Brooke said with a soft cough, “Thinking in terms of the whole picture facing the British Empire today, not limited to the home front. The Permanent Undersecretaries of the Departments and the Colonial Commissioners and I, after careful discussion and study, have observed the effects of your nationalization on the mainland, Prime Minister, and can conclude that the nationalization of the mainland has been a great success, and has been irreplaceable in getting out of the post-war doldrums and in bringing about the end of the rationing system.”

“Oh? Is that what you guys think?” Upon hearing this, Prime Minister Aidley said with great joy, “We have combined the merits of capitalism and socialism, resulting in today’s achievements ……”

While Prime Minister Aidley was boasting, Norman Brooke played a good listener, hearing the key points and with a flash of understanding on his face, sometimes with a surprised look on his face, as if he had only realized the great Prime Minister’s deeper meaning at this point in time.

It was a pity that Alan Wilson was standing behind Norman Brooke and could not learn, at this time, the essence of how to be a Cabinet Secretary, so to speak.

“In addressing the current tactics of the United States and the Soviet Union, both explicitly and implicitly, against the British Empire, we have come up with such a plan, which is essentially an expanded version of your idea, Prime Minister. We anticipate an increase in the role of the Imperial Preference System after the establishment of nationalized enterprises in the colonies.”

Norman Brooke stated what civil servants have ideas that are just a figure of speech, which is actually what Prime Minister Airdrie had in mind.

“After these years of hard work, there is finally some achievement, and I am very happy to see Britain recover from the war.” Airdrie took all of Norman Brooke’s boasts at face value and took them at face value.

If he had not seen the results, Norman Brooke would not have proposed to extend the nationalization campaign on the mainland to all the current territories of the British Empire. This shows that Norman Brooke also agrees with his approach to governance as Prime Minister.

“I have no problem with it in principle, but of course I still need to discuss it with the ministers.” Adderley nodded, clearly having been spoken to, “As for the Conservative Party side, I don’t know what method to use to deal with it.”

“Honorable Prime Minister, it’s time to show your vigor as Prime Minister, the opposition party is not qualified to oppose.” Norman Brooke said carelessly, “If you can’t, you can say that it involves state secrets to refuse to answer.”

“Good, I recall Churchill, once used a similar excuse right before Parliament when faced with the Lend-Lease bill.” Prime Minister Adderley, on hearing this, remembered Churchill’s response when he had issued his own challenge.