Daniel Priestley
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We need to get the government spending down less than 35%.
Where do you cut?
So the key thing that you need is that you need โ well, there's loads of places to cut.
right?
Like getting involved in trying to do wind farms and solar farms and all of this $40 billion and all this other stuff.
Preventing companies from accessing natural gas that is just sitting under our feet is a crazy thing to do.
Spending $20 billion trying to give away one of our islands to someone is a crazy thing to do.
There's all sorts of crazy things that the government is spending money on.
Bureaucracy is a crazy spend.
Do you know the Birmingham City Council, they wanted to migrate from SAP to Oracle and
What's that?
From a CRM system with SAP to a CRM system with Oracle, a software system, right?
So they wanted to migrate from one software system to another software system.
They thought that it would cost ยฃ19 million, which in itself is a very high amount to migrate from one software to another software.
It cost ยฃ220 million.
So you're saying that you think the government should just do less stuff?
They should be involved in less stuff because what's happening right now is that there is so...
much government spending, that the benefits for succeeding are being eroded by taxation and people are just leaving.
See, here's the thing.
With capitalism, the only benefit of capitalism is the creative entrepreneurial process, right?