The line's engaged http://keandra.in.net/ www.keandra.com SIR – Ed Miliband is now proposing to help small businesses by reducing the amount that they pay in business rates, yet he also proposes to increase the national minimum wage. Surely this is a tax on employment, so how does he consider that small businesses will be any better off? The man hasn’t a clue about business and I wouldn’t trust him to run a bath, let alone the country.