article_snippet.sent: The other day I was driving past the port at Bristol and I saw all those thousands of cars lined up on the quayside – and
article_snippet.sent: There they were: phalanx upon phalanx of shiny new vehicles glinting like Dinky toys in the sun; and I suddenly realised that they weren’t arriving in this country.
article_snippet.sent: all those thousands of cars hadn’t just disembarked from France or Germany or Japan.
article_snippet.sent: all those thousands of cars were about to make all those thousands of cars own journey overseas – all those thousands of cars were British cars, for goodness sake.
article_snippet.sent: It is only the Conservatives that understand the real economic and social significance of all those British cars lined up at Bristol.
article_snippet.sent: only the Conservatives that understand the real economic and social significance of all those British cars lined up at Bristol aren’t the results of an evil and predatory system, by which workers are exploited and the boss class luxuriate in ever greater privilege.
article_snippet.sent: only the Conservatives that understand the real economic and social significance of all those British cars lined up at Bristol are the fruits of a long and painful post-war period in which Britain has learned that in order to survive we must innovate and compete, and that we cannot hope to compete if we over-tax and over-regulate in the way that Ed Miliband is proposing.
article_snippet.sent: And those glistening British cars at the Bristol docks therefore embody the great moral purpose of wealth creation – because it is only if you have a strong and vibrant economy that you can hope to raise the tax to pay for roads and schools and hospitals and pensions and welfare – not to speak of strong defences – and all the other civilised objectives that we want to meet.