Merryn Somerset Webb

The money is there.

The money is there, right?

But the plumbing to get that money into our businesses, which is the same thing as saying growth tomorrow, isn't there.

So that's a re-plumbing problem.

We can solve plumbing problems.

With a political will.

With a political will, we can solve plumbing problems.

If the money wasn't there, I'd be far less optimistic.

But the money is there.

It's even here at home.

It's actually here at home as well.

We have the businesses.

We have the money to finance the businesses.

We replund the system.

And hey, presto, you get business-led growth, which, of course, is the only source of growth you can have that's sustainable over the years.

So these are the reasons, if you peer in the balance sheet fundamentals, we have the businesses to enable the growth.

We have the money to enable the businesses to grow.

This is a plumbing problem that's eminently tractable, Merrin.

And if we did that, we could be smashing the lights out, not just at a startup at Scala, but at GDP per head and all the rest.

So this is my frustration, but also my excitement about what's possible.