UK Conservatives Don’t Think Tax Breaks For Gaming Help
Taking a leaf out of Labour’s book it seems the Tories, tipped by many to win the next UK general election, have also got no interest in helping the UK gaming industry. Talking at a Westminster eForum meeting this week MP Ed Vaizey, the Shadow Culture Minister, said that he had no plans for tax breaks for gaming companies in the next few years as the gaming industry simply wasn’t a top priority for the Conservatives.
Quite how reversing a trend of economic decline in on of Britain’s largest industries is not a top priority I don’t understand. As the Independent Games Developers Association (TIGA) keep pointing out, giving the gaming industry tax breaks will earn Britain money and help curb the loss of any more jobs in an industry we used to be world leaders in.
Then again, these are UK politicians we’re dealing with. As Labour doesn’t care about the gaming industry, why should their biggest competitor?
Via: GamePolitics
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Serious issue though, our dev industry punches far above its weight and the lack of government interest is baffling, especially in this economy. I’m going to vote Lib Dem, and one of the reasons for that is that Don Foster (Lib Dem shadow for culture & media) is actually interested and active with and for TIGA, even though he doesn’t play games (he says he’s the wrong generation but we can forgive him that stereotype since he does so well with everything else). It wasn’t the deciding issue when I made my choice of party but it certainly helped…
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Very funny.
Cute. I love it when a nation’s political class say no to encouraging an industry with nearly infinite potential that employs highly skilled(see Educated, not poor) people and produces little in terms of industrial waste because their constituents get mad about Grand Theft Auto.