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I don’t have a problem with arbitrary minimum wage providing they (the government) are also listening to the concerns of businesses who had to endure deflation for the last five years decimating our cash margins whilst the cost of running businesses has gone up. Everything from minimum wage, utilities, bank charges, and pensions – the list is endless. On the government side they have delivered a big fat zero on reviewing the hopelessly outdated local taxes namely local rates whilst allowing on-line businesses to get away with practically paying next to nothing. Coffee houses and the likes, our direct competitors on “food to go” are surprisingly paying hardly any either nor taxes. The ministers are also pressing a head to that £10 an hour in the not so distant future. Perhaps a level playing field comes to mind but than that doesn’t exist in the politicians vocabulary although they often make pompous statements on the very subject all the time. At the same time the politicians are duplicitous by allowing large corporations to look after shareholder value at the expense of workers they care so much about!

Arjan Mehr Londis Bracknell