Labour government would be bad for Britain warns top businessman

Business leaders usually want to stay on good terms with all political parties. So it is highly unusual for a very senior businessman to wade into the political fight the way the head of Boots did yesterday. Presumably therefore he must feel very strongly opposed to what Labour has been saying.

Stefano Pessina, the driving force behind the $70 billion transatlantic merger of Alliance Boots and Walgreens and one of the country’s largest private sector employers, has warned that a Labour government would be a “catastrophe” for the UK.
 
In an interview with The Telegraph, Mr Pessina warned that Labour’s attitude towards business was “not helpful” for business or the country.

“If they acted as they speak, it would be a catastrophe,” he said of the prospect of a Labour Government coming to power during the next general election. More details here.

Comments

Tim said…
Considering that you cannot get a rizla paper between Labour and Conservative economic policy, then these comments are most revealing !
11:09 am
Chris Whiteside said…
I'm, sorry Tim, but if you think it's impossible to get a rizla paper between Conservative and Labour economic policy then you cannot be well informed about either.

There have been periods in my lifetime when the differences between Conservative and Labour policies were not enormous - though even then those differences did exist - but the present is certainly not one of those periods.

I don't often agree with George Eaton of the New Statesman but he had an excellent article very recently called

"Labour and the Tories aren’t the same - so why do voters still think they are?"

You can read this at

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/01/labour-and-tories-aren-t-same-so-why-do-voters-still-think-they-are

and I strongly recommend you do so.
8:32 pm
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