Today I joined my colleague, the Welsh Liberal Democrats Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, Roger Williams on a visit to a small rural business in Brecon to highlight our party’s commitment to provide support and encouragment for the private sector in Wales.
Graig Farm produces award winning organic apple juice and the farm recently diversified to provide self-catering holiday accommodation.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats want to force the banks to lend to viable businesses. We will support investment in the roll-out of superfast broadband and encourage closer links between universities and private business to ensure that Wales’ best ideas are contributing to our economy.
We want to ensure that small companies like Graig Farm have an environment in Wales in which to grow and prosper. The Westminster Government owns many of the banks, and they should be forced to lend to viable businesses and give them access to the credit they need.
Building a better opportunity for small businesses is our number one priority for the Welsh economy. Only by encouraging enterprise and entrepreneurialism can we build an economy that is diverse and sustainable and deliver jobs and wealth for the whole of Wales.
Small businesses like these form the backbone of our Welsh economy and we must do all we can to provide support and encouragement so that we can make Wales a place where the private sector can flourish.
It is absolutely vital that we ensure that small rural businesses like Graig Farm are protected. In partnership with the National Assembly, the Liberal Democrats in Westminster would create a legal supermarket code and a powerful independent regulator of Britain’s food so that producers and consumers get a fair price for produce.
In rural areas like Brecon and Radnorshire and many parts of Wales, we want to ensure that businesses have the help and support they need. That includes better and increased access to broadband so that businesses can flourish and grow.
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Good post. If the conditions were different in Wales and the rest of the UK their could be alot more small independent business’ like th farm you described.
The key is free market system over land ownership, the subsidy scheme benefits the rich (typically inheritance) , if we cold get away from the sbsidy of land ownership land would need to be sold as it would be too much withot subsidy
Land wold be in many more hands rather than the relatively few,
I know gys who are doing well on a few acres, ice cream maker, a cheese maker , smal agri-business, growing certain tree species from my advice
Enormous potential with land ownership, all there is at moment is a deficit and land potential for profitable business is untapped and the green economy may be only an aim rather than a reality nder the present state