Well, yes, but what the public see is as wrong as what the business types are saying.
The job losses are a marginal effect, 100,000 or so over a 5 year period; if we haven't created at least a million jobs over the next 5 years we're in trouble.
And yes, it would have to be a close call, but a lot of hiring decisions in a small business are close calls; I had to argue hard every year to justify my seasonal assistant, this despite the record of my 60-80 hour weeks, the business was in trouble and trying to turn itself around (it did this), and every hire had to be triple justified.
Anything that increases the cost to hire, even marginally, will slighlty decrease the number of hires made.
But the Tories are failing to make this point well enough, and Darling's dug himself into a hole by not being straight in the first place.
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The job losses are a marginal effect, 100,000 or so over a 5 year period; if we haven't created at least a million jobs over the next 5 years we're in trouble.
And yes, it would have to be a close call, but a lot of hiring decisions in a small business are close calls; I had to argue hard every year to justify my seasonal assistant, this despite the record of my 60-80 hour weeks, the business was in trouble and trying to turn itself around (it did this), and every hire had to be triple justified.
Anything that increases the cost to hire, even marginally, will slighlty decrease the number of hires made.
But the Tories are failing to make this point well enough, and Darling's dug himself into a hole by not being straight in the first place.