A Success Story, Brought To You By People The Pundits Ridicule

It's not all bad news out there. 

Consider Northern Ireland's Wrightbus.

From the FT, earlier in January:

Last week, when London’s authorities revealed the company that would design and build a new bus for the capital, mayor Boris Johnson heralded the planned vehicles as “state of the art”.

But behind the proposed cutting-edge buses is an old-fashioned family business called Wrightbus. Its workers still make the vehicles, partly by hand, on the site where it was found­ed – in God-fearing Ballymena, the Northern Irish town represented in parliament by the Rev Ian Paisley, and known as the “buckle on the Bible belt”.

In keeping with its traditional values, Wrightbus has a church within its grounds, tithes money to tuberculosis wards in Uganda, still has a tea trolley, employs a welfare officer, offers loans to staff in difficulty and has always stuck to a principle of little or no borrowing. 

But, hold on folks! This success, in Paisley's old stomping grounds(likely at least someone in that plant voted for the man!)? You mean, it's not captive to the banksters? You mean, it takes care of its people?

It's not unionized?

It's not on government life support?

It employs craftsmen?

It hasn't moved to India, or China, or Mexico, to take advantage of the slave labor market?

Maybe it succeeds because it has steadily tread against the dominant cultural tide.

Green Shoots Nominee!