The Conservative party has spent much time mocking Labour
for being out of touch on business issues, particularly Jeremy Corbyn’s support
for rail and possibly energy nationalisation.
But George Osborne seems much more at home tickling the
tummies of huge, state-owned companies in China and France, especially with
regard to nuclear power, than tending his domestic, private-sector firms. While
the chancellor was out wooing on a recent trip to Beijing, he seemed blissfully
unaware that subsidy cuts to the UK’s growing army of small and medium-size
“green” companies have been causing havoc.
