Sir Ralph

I didn’t say you were anti business. I said you appear to be more pro state intervention / taxes and I can’t recall you prioritising business in many (if any) of your statements which I would expect. In terms of the second assertion, I would anticipate that would impact your views, as it does me as a business owner.

But to date what has she done to encourage business? If they want to drive economic growth (which they continue to say they do) it should be easy to reel off…. What annoys me is that she is blaming everything else but they have been in power for coming up to 1.5 years. I won’t hold my breath on the budget based on her comments to date

I think your views are quite pro tax / state intervention and I don’t see much pro business rhetoric in your messaging which I would have expected. I appreciate that your personal views and business views can be different but my experience is that your day to day business work and what you see in that (the good and bad impact of government) would change your personal views.

Ok so the question is how is she helping to grow the economy if you are a business owner? She says she is going to show the worsening economic forecasts wrong. Genuinely what is she putting in place to help achieve this from a business perspective?

Inflation in the uk and it having nothing to do with government policy for one, despite multiple sources saying it does. I found that particular stance unusual. You consistently allege how you are advising xy and z but of all the people in the higher echelons of business, I’ve genuinely never met anyone with the views that you have. So respectfully I have my doubts and we clearly both have doubts about each other. I don’t want to have a slagging match as it won’t achieve anything and whilst we may both think each other talk BS I don’t think we will come to agreement on that so best to continue to be polite

So have you on a number of occasions

Pretty patronising. I’m not young unfortunately but you seem to think that you know everything about the world too which I don’t believe you do. When people don’t agree with your world view it doesn’t make your case to patronise them as that’s quite immature. I don’t patronise you

But reeves keeps saying that she is going to grow the economy which was the headline of the BBC article. I agree that higher taxes won’t. How are they encouraging business growth then?

I didn’t say strip all taxes but there are inefficiencies in day to day public spending that haven’t been addressed. From the mouths of people that work in these sectors. I also liaise with people in the public sector so I understand the need for it but also how it is bloated in parts. In some areas there are bureaucrats that are making themselves look busy but not achieving much. The government seems broadly unwilling to address this but just to tax people and that’s the problem. There is a lack of balance in their budget. I suspect they know this needs to be addressed but can’t because of their own party. Ultimately this is what is likely to loss those MPs their jobs in my opinion so short sighted

It’s amazing that these morons consistently think that higher taxes achieves growth when there are historical precedents in this country that it doesn’t. Your suggestion is crude and not reflective of what I said. We are now in an era of the highest tax burden since the 1940s so you would be stupid not to consider it should be reduced rather than continue to be increased. If your political strategy is to increase dependency of people on public spending by increasing the number of people in the public sector and dependent on welfare benefits to get more votes then that makes sense. It’s no wonder some people have this view of continually increasing taxes if they directly benefit from it.

It’s been playing on my mind too. Then if your car lights are too bright you should be taxed for that.

We don’t need tax rises we need efficiencies in day to day public spending and significant welfare reductions. I won’t increase growth. You need to look at day to day public services spending not overall tax levels

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cql9ez5grpqo “Saints will win the Premier League next year”, says Solar. I’m getting increasingly fed up with this silly women who keeps making excuses for her own incompetency. These policies won’t increase growth but will pave the way for further tax rises to cover the next black hole in 2026. Bunch of jokers and 3 years before they get kicked out

From the Guardian so not exactly balanced

When you watch this you have to wonder. The players have more to answer for than Still I think . Still job to hold them accountable

If people want change then you either boycott or have mass protest in the ground. If you decide to turn up and continue watching with no action, don’t bother complaining if it doesn’t change because it won’t. The owners need to be made to feel very uncomfortable

Not going - they don’t deserve my support. It’s like an abusive relationship where you keep giving but give nothing back until….enough

Poor blokes got mugged off by a couple of chancers

Stop going. I’m not. Preston should be a boycott

Crap owners, crap manager, lazy players. I just don’t care anymore

Boycott

What a fucking embarrassment this football club is. Joke I hope the fans give them pelters at the end

He needs to go now. This performance is worse than Bristol. Get rid

Finn Azaz - very poor performance

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