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  "OECD studies have shown that business start ups play a powerful role in economic growth."
  
  How does this square with the promotion of competition via reform of non-compete clauses? How does robbing one successful (yet perhaps struggling) established business of key personal and then granting these so-called new start-ups tax and regulation holidays that the established trader and trainer cannot access?
  
  There is mention of an increase in start-ups of 18,307 between 2010 and 2013, and talk of the 'aid' to these same start-ups lasting a maximum of two years...so how well has this performed over that (almost) three year period? Why so coy?
  
  Employment tribunals:
  Again much is made of headline figures, but how many of these cases involved SMEs?
  
  "Currently, only around 10 per cent of tribunal awards are greater than average earnings," Nevertheless CE wishes to push on and reduce the possible costs of abuse. Perhaps there are two kinds of such actionable abuse just as they say there is good rape and bad rape?
  
  Broadband
  
  Really, one would think that fast broadband coverage could be more easily rolled out wherever there is access to a landline, but alas this idea has been sidelined by the 'tick-box' mentality, with the concentration of efforts (the more easy to achieve 'apparent' success) to provide wi-fi in city centres.
  
  And magically, while many SMEs are far-off from populations there is ever a school nearby.
  
  Again:Semblance over substance.

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