Entrepreneur tells Govt - Back off and let us save the country!

[Doggy Styles]

Knock him or his business if you like, but it doesn't stop him being correct.

All the new red tape and complicated tax has squashed initiative. As a nation we seem to have returned to the mindset of the seventies, which was Loserville.

[thunderlizard]

He credits his success to his appetite for risk.

though I would credit it to getting a job in a City stockbrokers straight out of Oxford, then joining an established private equity house where they gave him a variety of businesses to direct while all the time paying him a nice steady salary.

[AtW]

Making overpriced pizzas will hardly save the country - can't see them being exported either.

What the Govt needs to do is cut taxes massively on long term capital gains from creation of new or growing existing businesses.

[MrMark]

No it's not Atw. Someone called Luke Johnson

luke johnson's call to arms