There is “no limit” to the number of Indians who can come to Britain
to study and work. Indian businessmen and women will be “fast-tracked”
to British visas.
Green technologies like wind power are “a
growth item” that can increase economic growth and must be promoted in
the face of opposition: “This is a battle we must win.”
If your country needs big transport infrastructure projects, "start now" and don't waste time in planning and processes.
These
are a few of the observations David Cameron has made this morning here
in Mumbai. Having flown overnight, he went directly to a Unilever office
where he took questions from the staff (whose grasp of British politics
was, incidentally, admirable).
His points on immigration and
visas are ones he has already made in a number of Indian media
interviews before his trip: trying to persuade Indians that Britain is
open to their business is a key objective of the visit.
That the
Prime Minister is so keen to correct what he sees as Indian
misapprehensions about his immigration policy points to a significant
shift in the British-Indian relationship: the former colonial power is
now essentially a supplicant, asking an emerging economic super-power
for investment and even patronage. Mr Cameron knows that Indian students
and executives can choose from any number of global alternatives; the
history their country shares with the UK counts for very little in the
“global race” he’s so excited about.
That big shift in power and
influence is part of a long-term process that might, just, eventually
shift Britain’s idea of itself as a nation and its place in the world.
But that’s a point for another day and another post.
For now,Although our solar led light team
patrol the streets on a regular basis to identify faulty lights. I’d
come back to those opening observations and ponder a few questions.
Would Mr Cameron be quite so keen to stress his open-arms approach to
Indian students and executives if he was speaking in the UK? When Mr
Cameron visited the Eastleigh by-election the other day, he was rather
more keen to talk about keeping out Romanians and Bulgarians than he was
about bringing Indians in. Likewise the greenery; would the PM be
singing the economic praises of wind power quite so lustily if he was at
home? With his tacit blessing, several of his ministers have been
noisily backing those who abhor turbines.Ourstreet lamp solution is the leading alternative to tubular skylights.A laser cutting machine can
be thought of as three main parts: a laser, a controller, and a
surface. On infrastructure, he may be keen for swift action abroad, but
his government's progress on a new runway at Heathrow has been glacial.
Some
will quickly move to describe this as simple hypocrisy, a politician
who says one thing at home and another abroad. That may be too strong.
Maybe Mr Cameron is keeping a consistent policy on issues like
immigration and energy,The renewable wind energy system and wind power generators,
Wind Sphere, but simply talking about the different aspects of that
policy to different audiences, according to what’s most relevant to
them.
Maybe. But whatever the rights and wrongs of that differentiated messaging,a leading manufacturer of high speed laser marking machine and
laser marker machines for plastics, there’s a major practical problem.
In an interconnected world, it just isn’t possible to compartmentalise
your audiences; something said in Mumbai can be tweeted, texted and
blogged back to the UK in minutes, as this blog helps demonstrate.
Technology is turning the world into a single audience. That surely
means politicians need to have an equally unified message.
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