Letter published in Hackney Gazette, 20 August 2009

A recent article in the Hackney Gazette drew attention to the fact that one in ten shops in Dalston now stand empty. This is hardly surprising when – unbelievably during a recession – the local Labour-run Hackney Council ever more zealously enforces shoppers’ car parking regulations, business taxes continue to go up and Gordon Brown’s government burdens local traders with more and more red tape, meaning Hackney’s wealth creators spend more time filling in forms than running their businesses.

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