Champion of small businesses

[NotAllThere]

benefits discourage work . Face it. My friend is on JSA - he says he wont start working untill it ends... Its pennies, i know , but still

Psychocandy has friends?

[DodgyAgent]

When every argument you make ends up with you telling me what it is I think, and getting it wrong, what does that say about how seriously your ideas can be taken?

Nowhere have I said we should stop people getting rich, or that being rich is bad, or that taxes should be much higher.

The reason why I make these sweeping assumptions is because your views (if you can call them that) are expressed in the form of wishy washy cliches that show nothing other than a lack of conviction, an inability to think anything through or argue a point.

[DodgyAgent]

You're a complete idiot if that's what you took from what I wrote. There are startups based on sound business ideas and a great product. And there are startups who only exist due to attracting seed funding, run at a loss for years while hiring hipsters in some silly swanky office, and then collapse leaving nothing behind.

To illustrate what I mean along comes this cliche about setting up business. Are you really so stupid as to think that businesses are set up to fail like this? Do you think people who invest are so stupid as to give their hard earned money away on investments that are never going to work?

This sweeping cliche offers neither facts nor any meaningful insight into the world of business. All it does is show us what an idiot you are.

[Jog On]

So is this the step before making all self employed/contractors/freelancers etc into PAYE permies? Miliband had the same harebrained ideas.

Doesn't matter though, doubt Labour will return to power for decades to come, and emigration is also always an option. The greater risk is Osborne co-opting bad ideas.

This a risk, he's got 4 years to do it as well. Doubt he'll go after the Amazons/Google/Starbucks etc. But if he wants to compete with New Old labour he might have to do something about it...

If Jez & Co can get the Tories to make some people based policies just to compete that's a win in my book...

[MicrosoftBob]

Champion of making businesses smaller surely