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Barry - It is all about people.
I do not blame Vodofone, or any other business, for closing down outlets when they fail to attract sufficient custom locally for their goods/services. I accept that a firm has to do what a firm has to do.
As I have said, all the blame, no matter what the fault, must lie with Politicians.
BUT!
It is the philosophy you share,(Small Government, low taxes, zero regulation and the damnation of the workforce), that insists on the return to the employment practices of the nineteenth century. By refusing to exact the tax due from this and other large, successful companies while daemonising the discarded workforce it is plain that the Party you adore (and the Party you do not) share your selfish, elitist frame of mind.
You and your Party insist that all shall be well when the powerful have a free hand and the powerless scrabble about eager to please in order to survive, entirely Dickensian.
How might Vodofone and the others have reacted to business opportunities in the east of Kent if they had to actually work to gain and keep their clientèle without being awash with unclaimed tax cash?
How much more trained and employment ready might the local workforce be had the tax been paid and distributed to the benefit of the population?
Again.
This is your philosophy in action...where is the benefit?
