Business Update

It has been a couple of weeks since the last update on my forthcoming business empire so it's time for a progress report.

My business partner had a meeting, last week, with the Angus Small Business Gateway to pitch the initial idea, find out what support they could give us and most importantly what grants are available. Their reply was less than helpful. Basically they won't comment on individual business ideas but will support you to write a business plan, they won't put you in touch with local businesses who may be able to help, and as for grants, well... there aren't any!! So what exactly does the taxpayer get for funding this organisation? Feck all as far as I can determine. Am I dreaming, for I'm sure every budget for the last 20 years bangs on about creating an entrepreneurial environment for the creation of wealth generating businesses. Now if we were some billion dollar, multinational company wanting to set up here they'd be falling over themselves to throw cash at us. Get a plant built for free, no taxes for 3 years and then shut the place down and bugger off to the next country with huge incentives. Added to this is the fact that my Business Partner is now classed as "long term unemployed", had his benefit stopped and still there is no help. Ridiculous.

So, as I suspected, it's up to us. In the long run it'll be for the best but you can't help feeling there is a lot of money wasted in funding these organisations that are supposed to support new business creation. At best they are completely cosmetic and at worst they are a total hindrance to people who want to create local jobs for local people (and get filthy rich, only joking).

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