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Business leaders have broadly welcomed Alistair Darling’s first Budget, but said the government still has a way to go to rebuild trust after last year's CGT debacle. Employers’ organisation the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which earlier this week called for an overhaul to the tax system, described Chancellor Darling …

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  1. Martin

    So;

    we are to give him credit for f*cking up things a little less than he could have done?

    Yeah, right, speaking as a SME, Darling/Brown are no friends of mine.

  2. Maisie Donaldson

    who cares what small biz groups think anyway

    Speaking as a citizen with an interest in pushing the child anti-poverty agenda, I only wish he'd gone further. There's too much indulging of whining "SME" proprietors and they really ought to scoop up much more from wealthy people.

  3. Andy Davies

    Speaking as a citizen

    ... are there no Workhouses?

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