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About The Wobbly Bottle

The South West’s Unofficial Boardroom Journal.

The South West is a veritable engine room of the British economy, but you wouldn’t know it from reading the regional press.  While others are busy acting as unpaid PR agents for Whitehall’s latest "Industrial Strategy" or cheering on the next round of council-funded "innovation hubs," The Wobbly Bottle is here to ask the uncomfortable questions.

We believe in a South West that is pro-business, low-tax, and fiercely independent.  We believe that the region’s success is driven by entrepreneurs in Bristol, engineers in Gloucestershire, and innovators in Cornwall, not the clipboard-wielders in London or the debt-pilers in our local town halls.

Governance, Friction, and Common Sense

The Wobbly Bottle offers substantial, sceptical, and strictly irreverent commentary on the forces shaping our regional economy. We track:

  • The Whitehall Doom-Loop: Critiquing the national policies that act as a handbrake on South West growth.
  • Regional Governance: Shaking the tree of local government and highlighting the fiscal recklessness of our £2.3 billion debt mountain.
  • The Boardroom Reality: Moving past the press releases to the "pavement-level" truth of meeting a payroll in the West Country.
  • Local Lore: From maritime tech to wind turbines, we anchor our analysis in the unique, rugged reality of the South West.

What’s so Wobbly?

In an era of sanitized corporate speak, the truth is often a bit off-kilter.  We are the voice at the bar after the Chamber of Commerce meeting, the one saying what everyone else is thinking, but nobody is brave enough to publish.

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