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You are both, all, quite correct.
Sadly, for you both, all. We live in a Democracy.
Why then anybody should feign surprise at the fact of the broad view differing from the narrow stance is something unworthy of time and effort to pursue.
I could take the narrow stance, and say, "Ya-boo-sucks", to those with whom I disagree, and to the small minded this is attractive, but it will not do for the greater good of our nation or defend us from again falling into our present trap.
The truth of the matter is that Britain/the UK has lived under the conditions you both, all, espouse, the narrow stance of the few atop the Pyramid Scheme:How was life then, how did we get where we are?
The supreme fact is that I am a consumer, that breed of individual that never gets a mention in talk of the wonders performed by the risk-taking, go-getter, but without whom there would be no need of 'business'.
If there was a right of a businessman to call upon the services of another without regard to the well-being of the other we would be now living in your Utopia, but nobody would be making a living. Those necessary folk that make a purchase from 'A', do not print-up the wherewithal so to do, they earn it from making something those employed by 'A' might also wish to buy. We moved on from barter at a cost, a cost to all, and a convenience to all. There can only be trouble and strife when the cost and benefit are assigned without due regard to the least of us, and are skewed to the advantage of the insistent avarice of the few.
Politics IS big stuff and does not become less so by concentrating upon the 'employer' and neglecting the 'consumer'. Be reassured, the SME backbone of our economy needs attention, attention that it has never received from either the Red or the Blue.
Quite why you are content, nay insistent upon, regarding the working population/consumer as your enemy is beyond me.
That these same voices rejoice at the thought of tax haven Britain and the aplomb of some businesses to rake in custom and cash (that then cannot be spent in your shop) and pay nothing back leaving the burden of taxation upon you static and home country centred enterprises is astonishing.
You both, all, seem to live for nothing but to beshit upon your fellow countrymen and women and children.
Me-me-me!? Ya-boo-sucks!