Grant Shapps Quotes
We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force.
Shapps, Grant. "Capitalism can be a profoundly moral force." The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 23 Dec. 2011.
For many critics of a market society, the advocate getting the benefit of a market economy without going so far as to create a market society.
Many of the far left grew disillusioned with the British Labor Movement and how it was relating to the capitalist companies, the government, and the workers. The Unions had become very undemocratic and controlling with the government pressuring both labor and companies to the degree that many felt that the institutions themselves were no longer free institutions. Ironically, they preferred the open competition of the American system at the time where unions and companies were free to fight out their differences.
From his WSJ opinion letter commenting on the WSJ article “In Defense of Scrooge, Whose Thrift Blessed the World”.
Grant Shapps is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Transport since 2019. Shapps also has Cabinet responsibility for the Northern Powerhouse. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Welwyn Hatfield since 2005.
