I too am on ZHC that normally amounts to about 50 hours a week, but then, in thoery I reap the rewards. Like the other SE on here / small business owners i also don't quite understand my workforce :slap you want paid holidays...etc etc. i expanded the business becuse i had more work than i could actually do, and i was also starting to realise i'm not as young as i used to be, so bringing on some young-uns seemed like a good idea, which it is. There are plenty of willing young workers in the UK despite what people say. They don't have the skills to be SE, so a mutual contract is arranged, I provide work and training, they get to learn a trade and do the work.
As for quantative easing, it was wasted on the banks. in my opinion they should have been allowed to fail bar 1 state owned bank - but that is simplistic and without a banking system the economy couldn't function. The money should have been lent direcly to buisness, or invested in capital projeccts, like roads, replacing victorian infrastructure, high speed internet for entire country. Even Hitler got that right building the autobahn system for a start, though alteria motives was also at play.
Brown should have spent a bit more on reducing dept, but then it all looked rosy at the time, how little we all knew!
i will be voting labour this time to avoid the chaos of heavy cutting by the Tories, as the Green party put it 'austerity light'. They also plan to borrow to invest in infrastructure - desperately needed, and exactly what turned Singapore into the successful country it is now, and China and Germany. Then we might have a country to be proud of again.
I wold also dearly like to see the tax system totally reformed away from indirect taxation to straight onto wages - that would save a fortune in admin, aswell as closing of tax loopholes that allows amazon and starbucks to name but a few, paying tax abroad on money made here. It would be good if all those useless footballers did the same!
