(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
Here’s some very interesting research that just about every part of the mainstream press ignored.
A survey of small and medium-sized UK business owners by business comparison website Make It Cheaper, showed that most support Labour.
According to the survey, the Labour Party were the favourites among SME business owners on 21.7%, followed by the Conservatives on 20.9%.
UKIP were voted the most damaging for small businesses, with over 27.3% of the business owners saying that – should UKIP get into power – the party would have a negative impact on their business overall.
The survey was of small and medium-sized businesses – which make up 99.9% of business activity in the UK, with big businesses making up just 0.1%.
In other words, the Tories are NOT the party of business as they like to claim.
They’re the party of BIG business.
Which is not the same thing at all.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
This little fact explains a lot of the rhetoric coming out of the Tory party about Miliband and Labour being damaging for British business. In fact, a survey a little while ago when Blair and Brown were in power found that by and large the middle classes believed that Labour were better for the economy.
And for all their rhetoric, the Tories have never been particularly fond of the small businessman, despite Maggie Thatcher’s folksy stories about living over her father’s shop. Johnny Void’s article published yesterday or the day before shows just how damaging the Tories’ welfare reforms, pushed through by Lord Freud, will be to those trying to make a living as self-employed.
And it’s also not terribly difficult to understand why many small businesspeople believe that UKIP would be bad for them. Most of our trade now is with the European Union, and Leaving the EU would mean leaving the European tariff zone. It would thus become much more expensive to trade with Europe, and so business would suffer.
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The Tories are not the preferred party of business, they are the preferred party of monstrous big business.
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The concern is where you have a revolving door whereby political party ministers end up on the boards of companies they have been lobbied by.
That’s a concern I think
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This is absolutely spot on as if we blunder into the break up of Europe like in 1939. SMEs would have to negotiate trade with every EU country, pay custom and excise duty. As a % of turnover and manpower of an SME this would be higher than the turnover and manpower of a big corporation. This would make competitiveness heavily stacked in favour of large corporations.
If UK is broken up then big corps. could push lowly disgruntled customers and SMEs about.
Conservatives only represent big corporations and big banks. The banking crisis was initiated by Fred Goodwin of RBS. The banking crisis was planned by the Tories to destroy the Labour government of Gordon Brown. This was to cause austerity and severe cuts to the public sector and reduce taxes. It also made people more accepting of poor living and working standards. This is to cause stress in the population as if you work for a bank you will know the algorithms they use to predict spending by a population work best when a population is under stress. The blame factor on Labour can also be used for politically gain.
Right wing parties can blame immigrants for the reduction in government and infrastructure resulting in the population shifting right and further break down of unified collectives such as the EU.
This shift to the right has been global. You could say the world has experienced a global right wing coup.
Banks and corporations favour global scale operations while forcing their customers into tiny little countries with tiny governments. They rule like giant Godzillas over Lilliputian nations riding on the giant financial waves caused by the activities of the big beast corporations and banks.
Socialism for the banks when they fail and capitalism for the Lilliputians. In this way we are all being robbed and behaving as they wish. Wealth transfer from poor to rich.
Cameron caused the banking crisis, the break up of UK and the next target is the break up of the EU. Cameron is just a large corporate ‘yes’ man – he is the delivery boy!
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THE EU WILL END WITHOUT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE UK
…SMEs would have to negotiate trade with every EU country, pay custom and excise duty. …
SMEs will face a Europe going bankrupt when the whole of southern and eastern Europe default on EU debt.
THE BANKING CRISIS HAPPENED FROM GLOBAL BANKRUPTCY
NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING IN THE UK
…he banking crisis was initiated by Fred Goodwin of RBS. The banking crisis was planned by the Tories to destroy the Labour government of Gordon Brown. This was to cause austerity and severe cuts to the public sector and reduce taxes. It also made people more accepting of poor living and working standards. This is to cause stress in the population as if you work for a bank you will know the algorithms they use to predict spending by a population work best when a population is under stress. The blame factor on Labour can also be used for politically gain….
The banking crisis had nothing to do with the UK.
Lehman Bros in the USA, a global company, went bust.
The banking crisis could not be planned by a political party, as they do not rule the economy. High finance does which is global.
Public spending did not cause the crisis in banking or the economy.
The Lehman Bros bankruptcy did.
LABOUR WAS DESTROYED BY GORDON BROWN
The Labour party were not destroyed by the Tories.
Labour voters simply folded up their arms and did not vote for any party in 2010.
All voting areas are marginals in the UK, because the non-voters had a landslide victory in 2010.
THE EU IS MOVING TO THE LEFT NOT THE RIGHT
…This shift to the right has been global. You could say the world has experienced a global right wing coup. …
Which the commentator would keep up.
Socialism is on a roll right across Europe.
A UK POLITICIAN IN A TINY OFFSHIRE EUROPE NATION CANNOT DO ANYTHING GLOBAL
…Cameron caused the banking crisis, the break up of UK and the next target is the break up of the EU. …
A UK politician in a tiny nation causing any of these things is so laughable, it is like a mouse eating a cat.
THE UK HAS ALWAYS HAD DIFFERENT GOVERNMENTS AND LAWS
The UK is breaking up, becaue it has never been together.
Ulster, Scotland and Wales has never had exactly the same government structures and laws as England.
EU WILL BREAK UP AS IT IS AN EMPIRE
NOTHING UK DOES WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
The EU will break up because it is an empire, not a nation. The EU cannot pass social laws because what works in one culture, does not in another.
SELF EMPLOYED AND POLITICIANS
…just how damaging the Tories’ welfare reforms, pushed through by Lord Freud, will be to those trying to make a living as self-employed. …
The welfare reforms came into being only because the Lib Dems made it possible for the Tories to rule.
Labour has not been an effective opposition.
There is now a Tory / Lib Dem / Labour coalition, and more so after May.
Labour have said Labour will not reverse Tory spending cuts nor change anything in the last Tory budget, so committed to the Tory £30 billion cuts.
Labour cannot stop them.
326 MP minimum threshold to form a UK government.
Neither Tory nor Labour MPs will get anything like that minimum threshold of MPs in May.
Tories are obliged, by the legal rules of UK parliament, to remain in power in a caretaker government.
The Tories do not need other parties to do that.
ALL PARTIES WILL DENY PEOPLE RETIRING FROM NEXT YEAR
A STATE PENSION, WHEN THIS IS THE SOLE PENSION PROVISION FOR MOST OF LOW WAGED / LOW INCOME SELF EMPLOYED PEOPLE
The flat rate state pension is already giving people forecasts for retiring from next year, of as little as £38 per week.
Many people will be hit with NIL STATE PENSION FOR LIFE
from the opt out from SERPs (that also hits works and private pensions).
See why, at end of my petition, in my WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT section at:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
Labour will not reverse the rise in retirement age.
TUSC will.
They are the Labour sacked by the Labour party for always voting against austerity cuts.
http://www.anastasia-england.me.uk
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diana
great points and bulk is real…but labour are not the innocent bystanders neither, ie PFI, health and social care act 2012…we’re their victims, we pay for it all they ALL continue to reap massive personal wealth….but having said that labour is the better bet for SME’s…the snp even better imo…the tories are simply not interested in the local uk economy…they have their eye on the really big bucks of the global markets, shifting global capital where ever there is more profit to line their pockets with, and barely claim otherwise…pretendy labour has to @ least vaguely demonstrate it’s roots go back to kier hardie, who started work @ 7yrs old, even though those roots are not as infinity elastic as they would like them to be, and stretched to the limit…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Hardie the framework of poverty has shifted into a different chronological and post uk industrial arena…back then there was the ‘need’ for messengers @ 7yrs old, for example….now millions barely scrape a living @ any age, so actually things are still very bad for millions and set to get even worse …only 1 in 40 new jobs being full time for the last few yrs…and are even these full time jobs decently paid? productivity is 40% lower than it was 35 yrs ago, and getting worse… see allofusfirst.org…millions already experiencing a ‘precarious existence’, no change there, being driven deeper into poverty…so has any real progress been made, by the labour movement? back to square 1 and then some, imo…where are the massively needed decently paid jobs to come from…? not by unpacking imports in a warehouse and retail that’s for sure…
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https://twitter.com/WingsScotland rally in glasgow just starting….
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hear speaks a very dangerous lady to launch campaign for women’s rights, nicola in glasgow today…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFZ2WpemVLM
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Insightful as ever. Keep up the good satire.
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In response the Tories have brought out a letter from 3000 small businesses supporting them (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32476188). This tit-for-tat propaganda is just childish and futile.
The truth is that there’s almost no difference between New Labour and the Tories and everybody except the supporters of those two parties can see it. No wonder even English voters want to vote SNP!
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