Work harder

[BrilloPad]

I am speechless. I wish now it had been a Labour government. Well not quite - but almost.

[AtW]

His forthright comments express the frustration of the Cabinet that the coalition’s legislative programme was attacked by business leaders last week.

In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph Mr Hague tells the Government’s business critics to stop “complaining” and to “get on with the task of delivering more of those jobs”.

He says: “There’s only one growth strategy: work hard.”

The riposte from Mr Hague is aimed squarely at critics including Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury’s, who last week accused the government of having a lack of coherent measures to boost economic growth in the Queen’s speech. They said it should have included “drastic deregulation”.

John Longworth, the director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: “Business people and voters understand that the economy must come first.”

However, Mr Hague signals that the government has little sympathy for this view, pointing out that the coalition is progressively cutting corporation tax from 28p to 22p and hailing the “rebalancing” of the economy with more private-sector jobs at the expense of public-sector posts.

He says of complaining business leaders: “I think they should be getting on with the task of creating more of those jobs and more of those exports, rather than complaining about it.”

Mr Hague warns that Britain has suffered from decades of declining work ethic, when people were persuaded they could “live on expanded debt forever, rather than having to earn what we spend”. The country’s work ethic needs to be rescued “in the nick of time”, he says.

The “work harder” message is understood to be a key plan of the Government’s political fightback, which is aimed at appealing to “strivers” and hard-pressed families.

Source: Work harder, William Hague tells Britons - Telegraph

So there you have - growth strategy is to work harder ... which of course would mean to some businesses making people work longer for same money thus avoiding having to create another job.

4 day working week would create a lot of new jobs