I was very glad to attend the Federation of Small Business Annual Dinner last night. Also in attendance was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.
Sadly, Mr Osborne is choosing to ignore the big blue elephant in the room.
Whilst George Osborne promised a moratorium for domestic regulations, he conveniently forgot to mention the regulation derived from the EU that is so crippling small businesses. I am calling for an immediate moratorium of EU regulation in order to boost small and medium enterprises and create jobs.
I would also like to criticise his refusal to extend the national insurance holiday to all small firms taking on extra workers, and he won't recognise that raising taxes and cutting spending too far and too fast has choked our recovery - pushing up unemployment and leading to borrowing £158 million more than planned.
Further reading:
Labour is against Businesses claims George Osborne
FSB chair calls for "ambitious" growth agenda
Osborne takes on business critics
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