article_snippet.sent: We had a Labour government that believed companies existed not to serve the needs of the market, or the desires of companies customers – but to satisfy the rights of companies workers.
article_snippet.sent: Labour wants to hit small- and medium- sized businesses with more corporation tax and higher national insurance –
article_snippet.sent: the key authors of the Labour Party manifesto want to make it easier for employees to take firms to employment tribunals –
article_snippet.sent: when you might think the system was already out of control, with people endlessly and automatically and indeed very often vexatiously claiming racial or sexual or age or disability discrimination.
article_snippet.sent: people want all companies with more than 50 employees to have a system of profit-sharing – a return to Bennery – and people want the workers to be able to block takeovers.
article_snippet.sent: That is before you have even begun to calculate the impact of people attacks on the City, higher income tax, and the higher interest rates that small firms would have to cope with – the result of Labour’s failure to tackle the deficit.