Here is a version of my appeal for the Digital Sector to join the Campaign for Fiscal Responsibility over on 38 minutes.
Tom Hunter is the latest businessman to say we should control our own taxes. In a piece for today's Times, he says we need to create a climate where entreprenuers can flourish. He offers a solution to the problem identified in David Sharp's 38minutes post on Scotland's lack of start-ups.
That digital Scotland is missing from the Reform Scotland campaign to give Scotland more economic power, is strange. Many digital businesses could benefit, from small start-ups to established operations. They need to attract talent in a competitive global marketsplace. They invest heavily in R & D and they have already been identified as a key sector for growth by the Scottish government. A Scottish Treasury with real power would be closer, and able to respond to what the digital sector needs. |for more on the sector and the tremendous potential it offers in terms of jobs and export earnings, see Stuart Cosgrove's excellent repor Digital Inspiration.
I admit that Gamers for Full Fiscal Freedom isn't the snappiest title. But....staying silent could allow the Westminster government to impose a flawed funding method on Scotland devised by the Calman Commission, which has absolutely nothing to offer business, won't grow the economy and which experts say will leave us broke. And perhaps as exposed to the vagaries of the world economy as the chaps above.
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