Entrepreneurs have been having a hard time of it lately and if a comment yesterday by Conservative MP John Redwood is anything to go by, the number of business owners in the UK is dropping. In a debate on the Fiscal Responsibility Bill, he said:
"This morning I spoke to a successful entrepreneur who told me: 'I'm on strike. I was a successful entrepreneur. I sold my company because the climate was becoming so hostile in this country. I managed to sell up before the crash. I have no intention of going back in because they're making the climate even more hostile-I'll sit on my backside and do nothing for a bit.'"
What do you think? Is Britain a bad place in which to do business? Are you considering giving up until the entrepreneurial environment improves?
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