First,
the Boots boss, now a string of other senior business figures are queuing up to
attack Labour’s beleaguered leader.
In
the past few days, it has seemed that Ed Miliband is heading for all-out war
with the High Street over his increasingly strident attacks on Britain’s
businesses.
As
Lord Rose, the man who saved M&S, put it in yesterday’s Mail, the Labour
leader is in danger of looking like a ‘Seventies throwback’.
Indeed,
with his planned National Insurance and corporation tax rises, as well as his
attacks on so-called business ‘predators’, Mr Miliband seems determined to
rekindle the spirit of the decade that fashion forgot.
Labour
MPs naturally shrink at comparisons with the Seventies, when strikes brought
the country to a standstill and Jim Callaghan’s government was forced to go cap
in hand to the IMF for the biggest bailout in history.
Yet
from his cynical pledge to cap energy prices to his controversial mansion tax,
Mr Miliband seems intent on banishing all memories of the New Labour years,
when Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were eager to prove their business-friendly
credentials.
For
all Labour’s synthetic outrage, therefore, I think Lord Rose was entirely
justified in recalling the climate of the mid-Seventies, which he called ‘the
old days of punitive taxes on business-people, of class war and the stirring of
resentment’.
In
1974, rather like today, Britain faced a choice between a governing
Conservative Party that often seemed out of touch with its own supporters, and
a lacklustre Labour Opposition happiest when bashing business and pandering to
its Left-wing activists.
Comment:
If
you want to see the United Kingdom bankrupt by punitive taxes, and ruined by
neo-communist/left wing/socialist and self interested parties like the Greens
and Scottish Nationalist Parties and see
Alex Salmond as Deputy Prime Minister
intent on breaking up the United Kingdom because of his self-inflated ego. vote
for Labour, If you want our country to continue to see economic growth, well the choice is easy, vote the Conservatives. I know what choice I will be making and it’s
not voting for Labour
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