Fit for purpose ?

For those of us wondering how the current government has, in such a short space of time, done such a stellar job of alienating big and small business alike, the Telegraph makes a worrying observation ...

"Fewer than 10 out of 350 Labour MPs have ever run a business. Business Secretary John Hutton's qualification for the job is that he was a law lecturer at Newcastle Poly for 11 years before becoming an MP. The minister for business, Shriti Vadera, has spent the past eight years as an adviser to Gordon Brown. She counts among her "achievements" Railtrack's renationalisation, the selling of Qinetiq for a fraction of its true value, and the disastrous creation of Metronet. This one-woman disaster zone has cost the taxpayer several hundred million pounds, but she clearly isn't finished yet."

Of the twenty three members of the Cabinet, if one excludes the lawyers who would have been self employed when practising at the Bar, just one single member has any first hand business experience, being ex-Tory, Shaun Woodward.