PorFavor wrote:Good morning.
Yesterday,
pk1 posted this:
pk1 wrote:
Anthony Wells in his round up has today said
Labour came under criticism from various business leaders, primarily Stefano Pessina the boss of Boots. Last year YouGov found 27% of people saw Labour as a pro-business party, 21% as anti-business. In comparison 66% saw the Tories as pro-business, 5% anti-business. Whether people necessarily see being pro-business as a good thing is a different matter entirely… more on this on Sunday.
so I'm
guessing they have tested public opinion for Sundays yougov poll & that the numbers favour Labour's stance rather than the Cons about being pro-business
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I can't find anything on this today (which could well be my inefficiency). Does anyone else have anything, please?
It's a mixed picture PF.
Todays yougov has the following questions:
**Which party do you think has the best policies towards British business? Cons beat Lab by 33 to 19
**If David Cameron and the Conservatives won the next general election and formed a government, do you think it would be...
Total Good for business 44 over Total Bad 23
**If Ed Miliband and Labour won the next general election and formed a government, do you think it would be...
Total Good for business 19 over Total Bad 43
so a clear Con win right ?
Err, no not quite. When asked:
**Thinking about the approach governments take towards big business, which of the following do you most agree with?
a) Government should generally try to help and support big businesses in Britain, as they create jobs and wealth for the country
b) Government should generally try to stand up to big businesses in Britain, as they too often use their size to take advantage of customers and suppliers
b) beats a) by 49 to 31
**Thinking about the bosses of large British companies, do you think they should or should not comment on political parties' policies?
a)Should - they have every right to support political parties they think would be good for the country and criticise those they think would be bad
b)Should not - the bosses of large companies should stay neutral and not get involved in commenting on political parties and their policies
b) beats a) by 45 to 38
**Stefano Pessina is the CEO of Wallgreen Boots Alliance, the company that owns Boots the Chemists. Stefano Pessina currently lives in Monaco, so does not pay British taxes. Do you think it is or is not acceptable for businessmen who don't live in Britain or pay British taxes to comment on British politics
Is acceptable 19
Is not acceptable 73
**Several other business leaders have also criticised Labour's business policies over the last week, generally speaking, why do you think they have criticised Labour in this way?
a)Business leaders who have criticised Labour are doing so because they genuinely think Labour's policies would be bad for their business
b)Business leaders who have criticised Labour are doing so for political reasons because they are Conservative supporters
c)Both equally
a) 32 b) 26 c) 22
**Do you think being criticised by leaders of big businesses helps or damages the Labour party?
a) helps
b)damages
c)neither
a) 7 b) 52 c) 25
Full details on pages 6 & 7 of the link:
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