Is Ed Miliband's Anti-Business Rhetoric Risking British Jobs?

[naomi24]

Ex-Labour trade minister Lord Jones of Birmingham thinks so.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11388246/Ed-Milibands-anti-business-rhetoric-is-risking-British-jobs-warns-ex-Labour-trade-minister.html

[ToraToraTora]

From a neutral position you'd have to see that Ed does need to defend himself against the mud slinging from an ever increasing number of large businesses and innevitably there will be collateral damage so to answer your question, I'd say yes.

[emeritus]

To be fair Naomi . Ed Balls has a number of supporters from the Business Community...... Trouble is he is not sure who they are !!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31125998

[ToraToraTora]

Not like Ed to forget things!☺

[jno]

what, by saying that British businessmen should pay their taxes??

[naomi24]

You mean like this fellow who, as the report says, is just as entitled to take advantage of the tax system as it is?

http://www.kinsellatax.co.uk/the-tony-blair-tax-mystery//

The question is will Miliband's attitude and apparent failure to understand business prove detrimental to this country's prosperity?

[retrocop]

naomi
As did the late champagne socialist Tony Benn. He wasn't averse to seeking loopholes in tax avoidance either. Still I mustn't wander off the subject of the post.

[Gromit]

Digby Jones was never a member of the Labour Party. He sits in the Lords as a Crossbencher.
He was invited into the Cabinet as part of the ludicrous named Governments of all the talents. It was quickly discovered he had none, and served as Business Minister for less than a year.

// Ed Miliband is risking British job prospects by attacking the tax status of a foreign businessman who invested in this country, according to a former Labour trade minister. //

After the takeover of Boots by Alluance UniChem, 1000 British jobs were lost mainly from Boots' head office in Nottingham, when the business relocated to Switzerland to avoid paying British Tax.

The takeover of Boots was hostile

[Gromit]

Please ignore that last bit, I didn't mean to include it.

[Gromit]

There is clearly some kind of campaign by ex-Blairite Ministers to undermine Miliband. Lord Jones and Lord Darzi were members of the Government that was rejected by the voters in 2010.

It is amusing to see our right wing friends on AB accepting the word of these Ministers as though they are speaking an undeniable truth. You didn't like Blair, you didn't like his Government, but now these failed politicians are suddenly worth listening to. They aren't.

[naomi24]

Gromit, //It is amusing to see our right wing friends on AB accepting the word of these Ministers as though they are speaking an undeniable truth. You didn't like Blair, you didn't like his Government, but now these failed politicians are suddenly worth listening to.//

You shouldn’t laugh too hard – you haven’t heard the punch line yet. I voted for Blair but for him it definitely wasn’t third time lucky.

Here are a few more influential names who are saying the same thing about Miliband – and business leaders are worth listening to because, like it or not, they’re the people who create the country’s prosperity.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/marks-and-spencer-boss-stuart-rose-accuses-miliband-of-returning-labour-to-the-seventies-10019958.html

[ichkeria]

I loved what Matthew Parris said about Blair recently: he compared his relationship with the Labour Party to that of Beagle 2 with Mars: He just landed on it! It was Labour's misfortune that at a time in 1997 when they would have won a majority no matter who the leader was, it happened to be led by another Tory :-)

[MargoTester]

Sorry to lower the tone but re Emeritus's post at 8.46 would that be Jock Strap.... I'll get my coat

[naomi24]

^ :o)

[Orderlimit]

I'd say yes after reading the links on this thread. What a shambles.