What does it matter what these 103 businessmen say who’ve signed the Telegraph letter? None of them wrote the letter – it was a party political stunt concocted by the Tory party to to get some cheap publicity in praise of themselves. But why does the Tory party think these names matter? It’s not as though business has been such a raging success this last decade that the electorate automatically think company bosses are worth listening to – quite the opposite after libor and forex rigging by the banks, the massive product protection insurance scam, and deliberate artificial, aggressive tax avoidance/evasion on a scale which, if companies paid their tax dues, it would almost wipe out the deficit without any further need for austerity and another decade of cuts for ordinary people. Several of the companies in the list were well-known tax-dodgers. Continue reading →