This is a Guest Post by Conservative councillor and blogger Tony Sharp who authored The Waendel Journal.
If anyone needed further evidence of Labour's hatred of entrepreneurship and desire to create wealth, then news this weekend provides it. War has long since been declared on small business, but a new front has been opened up by Labour's insipid proposal to give bailiffs the power to restrain people in their own homes and offices to execute the collection of debt.
Not content with finding new ways of limiting the rights of the individual in our society, Brown's government now wants to erode the integrity of our homes and business premises. Make no mistake, under the proposed change in the law it is not just householders who stand to have their homes invaded and property removed to pay a bad debt. Small and medium businesses are at even greater risk. The rules concerning commercial debts are different to personal debts. Businesses can have bailiffs set on them more quickly and have fewer options to head off action that can see everything needed to keep a business trading, from equipment to stock, carted off and sold - perhaps resulting in a business collapse. When mistakes are made by the bailiffs the effects can be extremely damaging.
Under Labour red tape has flourished costing small businesses valuable time and money, corporation tax rates have risen and the recent temporary 2.5% cut in VAT was not passed on in full to the smallest firms that are part of the Flat Rate VAT scheme. The fact is Labour's claim to support small business does not stand up to even cursory scrutiny. To Labour small business is like a pinyada, to be beaten repeatedly until it releases its financial contents.
Any government that is serious about promoting economic recovery would take measures that would give small businesses a chance to survive and restructure. Once a business has been cleaned out by bailiffs it has little if any hope of it turning around to provide more employment and generate more wealth. When this happens its employees lose their jobs are often forced to seek help from the state, tax revenues are lost and there is less choice for consumers about where to buy goods and services.
Far from witnessing joined up government, we are observing kneejerk politics of the very worst kind, spawned by political failure and incompetence. We are seeing an assault on those who resist dependence on the client state, with actions designed to force people into it. Small business needs to be rescued from this government's incessant hostility. People need to be made aware of the destruction being wreaked on the very part of the economy that needs to flourish if a recovery is to be achieved. Maybe then they will realise that the econmic arsonist known as Gordon Brown is not the person to rely on in these troubled times. Far from fixing the problems he is pouring oil on the fires he stoked up during his time as Chancellor.
Labour is not working, and under Labour so are far fewer of our countrymen. To stop the rot we must vote them out at the next election.
If anyone needed further evidence of Labour's hatred of entrepreneurship and desire to create wealth, then news this weekend provides it. War has long since been declared on small business, but a new front has been opened up by Labour's insipid proposal to give bailiffs the power to restrain people in their own homes and offices to execute the collection of debt.
Not content with finding new ways of limiting the rights of the individual in our society, Brown's government now wants to erode the integrity of our homes and business premises. Make no mistake, under the proposed change in the law it is not just householders who stand to have their homes invaded and property removed to pay a bad debt. Small and medium businesses are at even greater risk. The rules concerning commercial debts are different to personal debts. Businesses can have bailiffs set on them more quickly and have fewer options to head off action that can see everything needed to keep a business trading, from equipment to stock, carted off and sold - perhaps resulting in a business collapse. When mistakes are made by the bailiffs the effects can be extremely damaging.
Under Labour red tape has flourished costing small businesses valuable time and money, corporation tax rates have risen and the recent temporary 2.5% cut in VAT was not passed on in full to the smallest firms that are part of the Flat Rate VAT scheme. The fact is Labour's claim to support small business does not stand up to even cursory scrutiny. To Labour small business is like a pinyada, to be beaten repeatedly until it releases its financial contents.
Any government that is serious about promoting economic recovery would take measures that would give small businesses a chance to survive and restructure. Once a business has been cleaned out by bailiffs it has little if any hope of it turning around to provide more employment and generate more wealth. When this happens its employees lose their jobs are often forced to seek help from the state, tax revenues are lost and there is less choice for consumers about where to buy goods and services.
Far from witnessing joined up government, we are observing kneejerk politics of the very worst kind, spawned by political failure and incompetence. We are seeing an assault on those who resist dependence on the client state, with actions designed to force people into it. Small business needs to be rescued from this government's incessant hostility. People need to be made aware of the destruction being wreaked on the very part of the economy that needs to flourish if a recovery is to be achieved. Maybe then they will realise that the econmic arsonist known as Gordon Brown is not the person to rely on in these troubled times. Far from fixing the problems he is pouring oil on the fires he stoked up during his time as Chancellor.
Labour is not working, and under Labour so are far fewer of our countrymen. To stop the rot we must vote them out at the next election.
