If we don't deal with that, we will end up by muddling along, and the risk in muddling along is that you eventually run out of steam and you get into great difficulty.

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One area they are looking at in particular is the difficulty of getting venture capital for business start-ups once you get out of the South-East.

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He said that "the difficulty of unwinding, the difficulty of the lawsuits" are going to draw things out and that it is important to get to the bottom quickly.

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