Just to go back to the notion that big business can be bad...not so at all. Its true there is a certain dependency but they spawn lots of peripheral businesses so i dont agree with DT there for example that "Big Business crushes the smaller ones". Not at all.
We had a very good small business for 30 years but it depended on us selling our services to larger businesses, so we would NOT have existed and employed people which we did, if the larger businesses werent there. We were on first name terms with our corporate bank managers and heavens they even asked us to drinks parties!! imagine that today!!
We were the Spirit of Britain they said...now where have I heard that name in the last few days
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Recently Hastings, I think it was Hastings, was featured on BBC Southeast and they were thrilled when a new company opened there offering I dunno 500 or 600 jobs. Brilliant level of work and I was disappointed Dover couldnt be like that. The 500 or 600 employed there then have to buy sandwiches shoes shirts locally... and thats just the staff. The company itself has to buy PR Services, Advertising services, has to buy paper and waste paper baskets..well everything.. you get the idea. It powers the economy breeding new business.
If smaller businesses were the answer what was to stop Dover doing it all along.Its true they can be good but they need buzzing business communities. Ive been down this road and know it well, I wonder if the people making the decisions in high places have ever been through it...like some of us.