Five years ago, Witney MP and
Conservative Party leader, David Cameron, helped
launch The Witney Big(ger) Breakfast Club, Witney’s
foremost business networking organisation. Mr Cameron
recently returned to Witney’s Masonic Hall
to help the club celebrate its 5th Birthday Party,
where he delivered a rousing speech prior to answering
members’ questions and, afterwards, a selection
of questions put to him by B4’s Richard Rosser.
Sharing anecdotes which include the likes of Robbie
Williams and Gary Barlow on the one hand, and distressed
children at the annual Combe School Christmas card
competition on the other – the child in question
was apparently devastated that Mr Cameron wasn’t
the ‘star’ name he had hoped for – Mr
Cameron demonstrated that he does possess an abundance
of natural wit and humour.
Using the five year celebration of The Witney
Big(ger) Breakfast as a stimulant, Mr Cameron was
keen to see what lessons could be learned to help
us all get through what will undoubtedly be a difficult
year ahead.
“What I would like, most of all, today is
to hear your questions and try and answer your
points about the small business environment. It
has been, and still is, an extremely difficult
world we live in. If you look back over the last
five years, I think we should have learned a very
important lesson about our economy, a very important
lesson about our public services and a very important
lesson about our society.
“With regards to the economy, we should
by now have learned that you should never expect
the good times to last forever. It is biblically
simple. You should put aside money for a rainy
day. With a 14% budget deficit, twice as big as
Dennis Healey had in 1976, we went into the recession
not having put aside money after ten very good
years. I think that is the biggest lesson
I have learned.
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