This is part of a series of eighteen questions from The Democracy Club asked of the Isle of Wight candidates in the 2010 General Election (background).
National statement two: The British government interferes too much with business.
| Candidate | Position | Comment | |
| Ian Dunsire (English Democrats Party) | strongly agrees | “Interference from Government and their Quangos has reached ridiculous proportions. EU interference from Brussels should be stopped now and it must be made easier to employ people and make a profit!” | |
| Bob Keats (Green Party) | is neutral | “It is more of an issue for the Government to sort out its internal bureaucracy.” | |
| Pete Harris (Independent) | strongly agrees | “Over recent decades the mother of all bureaucracy has been allowed to develop, this stultifies business and just about all of our institutions. We should set about its dismantling.” | |
| Paul Martin (Middle England Party) | strongly agrees | ||
| Paul David Randle-Jolliffe (Independent) | strongly agrees | “Business is the economic generater that creates prosperity and employment, you dont strangle the goose that lays the eggs, I would chalenge uneeded rules and interferance.” | |
| Mark Chiverton (Labour Party) | is neutral | “There is a need to reduce some bureaucracy to ease the pressures on small businesses and the self-employed. However, the Government has given considerable assistance to Island industry through the RDA which the Tories and LibDems want to scrap.” | |
| Michael Tarrant (UK Independence Party – UKIP) | strongly agrees | “There is a myriad of unnecessary legislation and directives currently in place. They mostly emanate from the E.U.” | |
| Jill Wareham (Liberal Democrats) | agrees |
Those who didn’t provide responses: Andrew Turner – Conservative, Geof Clynch – BNP and Edward Corby – Independent
The idea for this whole idea came from the excellent The Democracy Club and answers are hosted by the splendid
Election issue of TheyWorkForYou.
Image: Karen Eliot under CC BY 2.0
