The owner of the sme for which I work with 30 odd souls didn't vote labour because of Corbyn but before that he was always banging on about tax.lpm wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:08 amI want to see someone who adopts my “party of small businesses” strategy. It seems an obvious political winner to me.
- 6 million SMEs in UK (Small & Medium Enterprise, < 50 employees)
- 17 million people work for a SME
- Everyone thinks they hate big business and bankers: exploiting workers, not paying tax, CEOs with huge pay, bankruptcy scandals etc etc
- Everyone pretends to like local small business, thinking it’s good to buy local and British and from the little high street shop (even if they actually buy at Tescos and Amazon)
Labour has to present itself as being a safe choice on the economy and good for businesses and prosperity, yet simultaneously attack the Conservatives as being controlled by billionaires and tax dodgers.
Become the party of small businesses and you win votes from “white van man” - the patriotic, Brexity type voters who work hard and don’t like scroungers. You are on the side of the underdog, always popular in England, against the wealthy elites. An economy for the many businesses, not the few global exploitative big businesses.
And it works really well with local constituency campaigning in the northern areas they need to win back - Labour candidates can spend the next 4 years championing the small businesses in their areas. Campaign for a local shop losing out to Amazon or a little construction company hurt by govt spending cuts or a small exporter struggling due to the red tape created by Johnson’s policies. Constantly boast about how much PAYE, tax, rates and VAT these companies pay, unlike the companies that own the Conservative Party.
He seems like a nice guy but is under the impression that he is the sole reason for his success, ignoring his middle class upbringing, state education, university in pre loan times and the general benefits of living in society.
When he started articulating his ideas I lost all respect for him. It makes me weep that educated people can be so ignorant of the reasons for their success.
My tears of course change nothing. These are the c.nts we live with, any labour party is going to have to court them or thrash about losing and cock blocking the opposition which could be taken by a new party which would.