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to think 100 business leaders have more credibility

106 replies

longfingernails · 01/04/2015 00:46

than Ed Miliband?

Cue the usual left-wing demonisation of business, accusations of fat cattery, and the denigration of success. Labour can't escape the perception, firmly rooted in fact, that they are now an anti-business party, and therefore an anti-jobs party.

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Binkybix · 01/04/2015 08:07

Their!

AuntieStella · 01/04/2015 08:12

They're not dictating policy, and more than any group/individual dictates when they provide an endorsement. It's a pretty standard feature during campaigns.

There'll be loads more, from various quarters for various parties, in the coming weeks

InterOuta · 01/04/2015 08:18

Yadbu. Business leaders are out there to make money, and get richer whilst participating in zero hour contracts etc. They do not have the public interest at heart, rather just their own pockets.

Binkybix · 01/04/2015 08:32

Sorry - I didn't mean that this endorsement means they're dictating policy (although they certainly do get an inside track). It was a reply to the premise of the OP that they know best what to do.

Icimoi · 01/04/2015 08:36

Essentially they are saying that their businesses will be in danger if they have to pay 1% more in corporation tax. If their businesses are that flaky, they're pretty incompetent and I certainly wouldn't rely on their opinions.

hackmum · 01/04/2015 08:36

George Monbiot has a very good article today about the contrast between caseworkers - people who we all rely on to keep society running, yet who are vastly underpaid and undervalued - and the people who run those care companies: greedy, overpaid and lauded as "wealth creators":

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/31/wealth-creators-klepto-rewards-bosses

AuntieStella · 01/04/2015 08:41

I've just caught a bit of an interview on Beeb.

A Labour politico (not sure who) was pointing out that this 100 were a tiny amount of the millions of businesses in UK. He was a bit wrong-footed when asked if there would be a similar (or bigger) endorsement of Labour plans (assume that's a no, then).

Handsoff7 · 01/04/2015 08:45

100 wealthy business people support a party that favours tax cuts for the rich and businesses over supporting the vulnerable.

Why is this a story?

ElectraCute · 01/04/2015 09:13

To misquote Mandy Rice Davies - well, they would say that, wouldn't they?

I am not interested in the opinions of so-called 'wealth creators'. Self-satisfied, self-serving, myopic, grasping...and 20% of them are yer actual psychopaths, apparently...

They do not have the interests of the country at heart.

FabULouse · 01/04/2015 09:21

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CaptainAnkles · 01/04/2015 09:25

I was going to say pretty much what handsoff said. Hardly surprising that a load of multimillionaires are in favour of a party that only cares about multimillionaires really.

margaritasbythesea · 01/04/2015 09:27

I was surprised they only got 100 to sign. It is not a surprise that big businesses likes the Conservatives, is it?

Tanith · 01/04/2015 09:33

Oh, of course!!

It's April Fools Day, isn't it? GrinGrin

TheFairyCaravan · 01/04/2015 09:55

They are hardly independent!

to think 100 business leaders have more credibility
Dawndonnaagain · 01/04/2015 10:29

Situation normal then. The rich get richer and ask for more. The poor get poorer.

99pokerface · 01/04/2015 10:31

It's really funny op the lefties and Muslie knitters didn't complain when the buniness were failing over themselves to court toney Blair

99pokerface · 01/04/2015 10:36

Add message | Report | Message poster FabULouse Wed 01-Apr-15 09:21:09
It was Chuka Umunna (Shadow business secretary) being interviewed on BBC breakfast. As he pointed out, a letter requested by Conservative party PR, published in a Conservative newspaper, shouldn't raise any eyebrows.

Really ed tried to court the big business only diffrence is they think he is a twat as do the scottish and many people here if your honest even the labour die hard deep down know he's not up to the job

TendonQueen · 01/04/2015 10:45

Binky I thought trickle down economics had been discredited by people who know, even though it still gets referenced a lot by right wing politicians. There's a Cambridge -educated economist who's written about it. Will try and remember more details.

99 don't think either Cameron or his team have shown they are up to the job. Miliband has had a hatchet job from the media who have got people thinking that how you eat a sandwich is somehow relevant to running the country Hmm meanwhile Cameron is all over the place.

Binkybix · 01/04/2015 10:49

Thanks tendon I'd appreciate that. Will also do a bit of research for myself!

99pokerface · 01/04/2015 10:51

Add message | Report | Message poster TendonQueen Wed 01-Apr-15 10:45:24

Really so it was the press who made him stab his brother in the back

The press who made his name absent of his childrens birth cert

The press made him try to pull the wool over our eyes and pretend he has a tiney kitchen as if he were a living in a concil estate in Brixton

Confused

He's not up to the job he can't hold his own he appears as a goof tendon you sound like the UKIP people hes been fitted up the press lol

YokoUhOh · 01/04/2015 10:53

I can't make head nor tail of 99pokerface's posts, is it a formatting 'thing'?

OfaFrenchMind · 01/04/2015 10:54

Yeah... In term of Economy, better not take France as an example. The Prime Minister said himself that the taxes they imposed stifled greatly the economy and industry... therefore employment.

Binkybix · 01/04/2015 11:09

I'm not a huge fan of Ed M, but he had an equal opportunity to run and he took it. I don't have a probl with that. I don't know much about the details of his family or why he wasn't in the birth certificate. Unless he was trying to avoid responsibility for his children then I don't care.

I don't like the kitchen thing, but sadly all politicians play this sort of game. I don't think he's better or worse in that respect.

None of this makes me feel that 100 CEOs of big business railing against a 1% interest in tax have the overall best interests of the country at heart. If they can provide evidence of a negative impact then I'm all ears.

Ratfinkandbobo · 01/04/2015 11:36

I bet a lot of these 'business leaders' don't even live in the UK, or pay proper tax for that matter. Op is naive to think that they are not self serving and protecting profits/shareholders, at the expense of our society.