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Petition to No 10 Downing Street |
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Written by Watersons Marketing Group
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
"Your petition has been approved by the Number 10 web team, and is now available on the Number 10 website at the following address: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Enterprise/ Your petition reads: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Promote an enterprise culture by cutting taxes, reducing Government, scrapping the so called initiatives and letting people choose how to spend their money. We have a top heavy Government system that smothers real enterprise, a hugely complex tax system that penalises growth, a legal system that has become so unwieldy that employers will go overseas, and a growing culture of "they should fix this....." rather than "I want to fix this....." Thanks for submitting your petition. -- the ePetitions team "
Your petition has been approved by the Number 10 web team, and is now available on the Number 10 website at the following address:
The main purpose of the petition is to try and get "Business and Enterprise" to become aspirational goals in UK culture and society.
At present "Profit" is almost a dirty word, and "Business" implies an uncaring, ruthless organisation out to exploit their work force, suppliers and their customer. And of course "Business" is the enemy of the climate and the environment!
These attitudes, although not widely held, seem to pervade certain sections of the politcal classes and media, who are disproportionately influential.
Enterprise is the only way to generate wealth in both the economy and ultimately society. After the Industrial Revolution, philanthropic benefactors from industry and commerce bestowed a great many institutions and social benefit. These individulas were respected and revered for their ground breaking innovations.
Today, however we have seen the introduction of so many laws which appear to wish to create a "utopian society" full of freedom of choice and rights for every sector of the community. In practice, however we have got over-regulation strangling the very source of the wealth creating enterprise which has to foot the bill for this Utopia!
Please, lets slim down Government, lets slim down the regional assemblies (they are already in place), slim down local authorities. And finally consign a raft of regulation to the proverbial bin. Suggestion please as to which regulations to repeal!
Note: If you wish to sign the petition, please do so. Also, if we want to create some momentum, then please forward the petition to others that you know. |