Quote Originally Posted by Muskett View Post
You are quite right. I don't know the chap but a good education doesn't automatically mean business savvy. You may well be right on this one!??
The high business taxes of those times stopped anyone chancing much. It was all risk aversion. Why take a chance? If it was a success then the government just taxed it all away anyhow, so no one did anything but down scale.
It’s always the government, the unions or Brussels that ruin things for a chap starting out on life with only his wits and a few hundred thousand in his pocket. Land of shattered dreams ..