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Old 04-01-2015, 03:24 AM
 
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So, 100 British business leaders back the Tories.
Where's the surprise ???????

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Old 04-01-2015, 05:46 AM
 
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So, 100 British business leaders back the Tories.
Where's the surprise ???????
None at all.
The people responsible for creating wealth in the UK understand that Labour would be a disaster for the economy.
Miliband and Balls learned all they knew while serving under Gordon Brown.
'nuff said.
 
Old 04-01-2015, 06:04 AM
 
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Of course they did they are 'British business leaders'!, a real statement would be if 100 minimum wage workers 'back the Tories'.
 
Old 04-01-2015, 06:08 AM
 
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no surprise, any more than the Unions backing Labour.
 
Old 04-01-2015, 07:37 AM
 
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Unions represent real working people though, so why is that bad? Big business represent rich people.
 
Old 04-01-2015, 09:41 AM
 
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no surprise, any more than the Unions backing Labour.
The IMF stated that income inequality widened with the power of the unions dropping.
 
Old 04-01-2015, 09:46 AM
 
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Unions represent real working people
I'm not sure that is true anymore. I think the Unions represent the Unions these days.
 
Old 04-01-2015, 09:48 AM
 
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None at all.
The people responsible for creating wealth in the UK understand that Labour would be a disaster for the economy.
Miliband and Balls learned all they knew while serving under Gordon Brown.
'nuff said.
Corporate greed does not understand economics.

Many economists are predicting disaster if the Tories get back in. The last 5 years was appalling.
George Osborne is selling the Conservative Party as saviour of the British economy. And yet, his swansong as Chancellor of the Exchequer was a catalogue of disasters that smooth the way for the Crash of 2019.
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He claimed that “we choose responsibility”, and warned that there would be “no short-term giveaways”. In fact, his budget was a catalogue of irresponsible giveaways (AKA bribes) – most of them designed to boost property prices. These include:
  • taxpayer funded subsidies to first-time buyers of houses: this will give a further upward twist in house prices, because there is no way for supply to catch up with demand;
  • 20 new “housing zones”: state intervention will be capitalised into higher land prices;
  • the creation of eight enterprise zones: we know from the Thatcher years that this will jack up the price of land rents within the privileged areas, without creating many jobs; and
  • corporation tax cut to 20%: this will boost the value of rent-yielding assets, further distorting the investment market in favour of speculation.
Osborne's Legacy: The Ladder of Despair - Share The Rents
 
Old 04-01-2015, 09:50 AM
 
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no surprise, any more than the Unions backing Labour.
They were founded as the political wing of the Trade Unions. But not controlled by them. I would expect the unions to back Labour.
 
Old 04-01-2015, 09:51 AM
 
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A Labour Government with Ed Balls as Chancellor of the Exchequer would be a disaster for this country.
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