The FFS chief with a clear message to Erna

Text and photo: Sveinung W. Jensen, Tellus Kommunikasjon

- Business life in Norway needs a greater degree of political predictability. Before, we had low electricity prices and stable political conditions. We did not risk taxes suddenly being introduced retroactively. But this is how it has become now, says Nilsen, and cites the salmon tax as an example.

The FFS chief received the former prime minister outside the company's office on Jansen's plan. Solberg, who can quickly retake the government offices after the general election in two years, also received a clear call from Nilsen to take action on the wealth tax.

- IT CAN'T be such that one has to invest abroad or get rid of citizenship in order to survive as a business owner, says Nilsen, and explains:

- The vast majority of entrepreneurs take out a modest salary. But today, as the owner, you are forced to liquidate the company in order to pay wealth tax. It will be completely wrong. The value must remain in the companies, says Nilsen.

Before the FFS meeting, Solberg heard a little about the new Eilert Sundt upper secondary school from principal Espen Berglund.

THEN NILSEN TOOK with the leader of the Conservative Party, the party's local mayoral candidate Pål Hals and the rest of the "blue jackets" on a jetty to Torvets, where owner Gaute Ubostad was ready with a snack. During the walk, the conversation was about Farsund and the challenges facing the maritime industries.

It is not the first time that FFS has been visited by high-ranking national representatives from politics and working life. At the beginning of February this year, Nilsen welcomed LO leader Peggy Hessen Følsvik at the FFS workshop in Lundevågen.

- It's fun that they choose to visit us. It is important for us company managers to say where the shoe presses. Having said that, I reckon I'm not the only one they listen to, smiles Nilsen.