The FSB Has - Very Usefully - Summarised the Main Manifestos

The Federation of Small Businesses has summarised the manifesto's of each of the three main parties to make it easier for SMEs to see what each party proposes to do for small business. They have also included Plaid Cymru's manifesto, and that of the Scottish Nationalist Party.

You can find the link to the summaries on the Federation's Home Page under the title "What will the main parties do for small businesses" - and obviously it's worth taking the time to read all of them.

Obviously, too, manifestos are only promises - and all too frequently contain promises that are never kept - but it is interesting to see how important the needs of SMEs have become to the parties fighting this election, and how far they are each prepared to go to woo the SME vote.

Well - better late than never! I suppose that even politicians had eventually to realise that it's small business that turns the big wheel...