21 Aug, 2010
Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls yesterday criticised the new coalition government in the UK, for the axing of proposed measures to safeguard the gaming industry in Britain and Scotland. On his personal blog, the Secretary called for a tax break to be introduced at benefit to the industry after developers Realtime World went into administration, putting hundreds of jobs on the line.
The Tory-Lib Dem government is putting the future of the computer games industry in Scotland at risk. The terrible news this week about Realtime Worlds could be just the start unless the coalition government rethinks its decisions which are costing jobs and risking the recovery.
He described the move as ‘economic madness’, in not supporting an industry of high-skilled workers in a time where the UK economy is so delicate, and claims that he is going to be urging an immediate rethink on the decision. The concern for the decline of the gaming industry has the joined the mounting list of skilled work as well as public services that is said to be under threat by Lib-Dem and Conservative government.
As I have heard today this industry sustains thousands of high-skilled jobs that we simply cannot risk losing if we are to secure economic recovery and protect jobs in places like Dundee which were scarred for years by the Tory recessions of the 1980s and 1990s.
As of the last few weeks I have really come to regret voting for Liberal Democrats. I should have listened to my mother, ‘Better the devil you know’ with Labour. Why is your mother always right?
Maaahahaha… Balls… :P
And may I just say that picture is awesome xD
On a serious note, this guy talks a hell of a lot of sense. Don’t get me started on your mother though ;)