Why should the public take political advice from big business?

8th April, 2010 by Webmaster

Consider what the cost has been of listening to these people
over the last two decades. The practice of neo-liberal politics has basically
given them free rein and total control over the world’s markets, and has deregulated
anything standing in their way. In the 21^st Century, businesses have
been given unprecedented power to grow as big and broad as they wish. The objective
of our economic and social activity became limitless, endless, mindless
accumulation of wealth in a profit-centred economy.

But aside
from Cameron and Osborne’s promise that cutting the debt will be favoured over
protecting jobs, there is a clear reason why these businessmen have spoken out
against the government. According the figures released last week by the
Institute of Fiscal Studies,

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