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Small business owners back Conservatives in open letter

In an open letter to the Daily Telegraph, the owners of 5,000 small businesses have urged voters to back the Conservatives in the General Election.

The business leaders, who employ 100,000 people between them, said: “We work hard, make sacrifices and invest our own money to help our businesses grow and succeed.

“It was tough during the recession, but we kept going. We would like to see David Cameron and George Osborne given the chance to finish what they have started.”

“A change now would be far too risky and would undo all the good work of the last five years.”

According to Sky News, the backing comes as the Prime Minister prepares to give a speech later setting out his plans for helping small firms that form the “backbone” of the UK economy, he will say: “Labour think it’s government that creates jobs. We know it’s the people who take risks, start out on their own, wake up at the crack of dawn to open up their shop and do their books on the kitchen table at midnight who create jobs,”

“Small businesses are the backbone of our economy - and Conservatives are behind them 100%.

“We are the party of the grafters and the roofers and the retailers and the plumbers. We get them, we respect them, we understand them, we back them. While Labour sneer, we cheer.”

Mr Cameron will make a speech in in central London laying out plans to see 600,000 new businesses started every year by 2020.

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This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ellen Forster .