Scottish Industry Forum - Revision history

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The Scottish Industry Forum is a New Labour friendly business organisation chaired by [[Baroness Goudie]].

In 1999 - in the run up to the first Scottish Parliament elections - it commissioned a survey on business attitudes to independence which unsurprisinbgly came up with the finding that:
:A survey of 100 leading businesses has revealed that 75% of Scotland's biggest companies feel that independence for Scotland would be worse for business. The survey was carried out by MORI Scotland for the Scottish Industry Forum, the independent business organisation. Interviewing was conducted by MORI on 6-15 January. Asked if full independence would be better or worse for business, as opposed to a devolved Parliament as currently planned, only 6% felt the business environment would be improved.{{ref|Ipsos}}

==People==
*[[Baroness Goudie]]
*[[Edward Cunningham]], Chair, 1999.
==Notes==

#{{note|Ipsos}} [http://www.ipsos-mori.com/polls/1999/scotindf.shtml Scots Businesses Worse Off In Independent Scotland] Ipsos-MORI, January 1999.

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−	The Scottish Industry Forum is a New Labour friendly business organisation chaired by [[Baroness Goudie]]. It was set up in 1995 as part of the campaign by the Labour party to cosy up to big business. This was one of the key mechanisms by which Labour proved to big business that it was no longer a threat and attempted to raise funding from the corporations thus lessening their dependence on the trade Unions.	+	The Scottish Industry Forum is a New Labour friendly business organisation chaired by [[Baroness Goudie]]. It was set up in 1995 as part of the campaign by the Labour party to cosy up to big business. This was one of the key mechanisms by which Labour proved to big business that it was no longer a threat and attempted to raise funding from the corporations thus lessening their dependence on the trade Unions. In 2008 it emerged that the Forum was being used to covertly bankroll the campaign of [[Wendy Alexander]].<ref>Ref needed</ref>

	==1995==		==1995==

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	:"The forum will give industry a unique chance to get on the inside track to shape and develop policy," said [[Robert Stevenson]], chairman of the forum and managing director of [[Robert Horne (Paper) Ltd]]. "I hope it will develop into something really powerful and prove that business has the ear of the Labour party." At the forum, John Ward, who is also [[IBM]]'s director for Scotland and Northern England, will add to the debate by presenting the CBI's newly-published Scottish Business Agenda and outline the support it requires from government if it is to achieve its objective of wealth creation. Joining him on the platform will be [[Jack Cunningham]], Shadow Industry Secretary and [[Alistair Darling]], Labour's City spokesman, who will present the party's economic and industrial policy.<ref>Scotland on Sunday June 11, 1995, Sunday Labour forum opens dialogue with business BYLINE: John Hatfield SECTION: Pg. B3</ref>		:"The forum will give industry a unique chance to get on the inside track to shape and develop policy," said [[Robert Stevenson]], chairman of the forum and managing director of [[Robert Horne (Paper) Ltd]]. "I hope it will develop into something really powerful and prove that business has the ear of the Labour party." At the forum, John Ward, who is also [[IBM]]'s director for Scotland and Northern England, will add to the debate by presenting the CBI's newly-published Scottish Business Agenda and outline the support it requires from government if it is to achieve its objective of wealth creation. Joining him on the platform will be [[Jack Cunningham]], Shadow Industry Secretary and [[Alistair Darling]], Labour's City spokesman, who will present the party's economic and industrial policy.<ref>Scotland on Sunday June 11, 1995, Sunday Labour forum opens dialogue with business BYLINE: John Hatfield SECTION: Pg. B3</ref>
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		+	:Mr Robertson said that the parliament would specifically not have the power to vary corporate taxation or alter the system of banking regulation and supervision. He promised that this was an explicit commitment which would be spelled out by the founding legislation for the Scottish parliament, adding that a recent report by Professor Neil Hood showed that devolution would have no likely impact on inward investment.
		+	<ref>The Scotsman June 23, 1995, Friday Robertson woos business by tackling devolution myths BYLINE: By Peter Macmahon Scottish Political Editor SECTION: Pg. 9</ref>

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-The Scottish Industry Forum is a New Labour friendly business organisation chaired by [[Baroness Goudie]].
+The Scottish Industry Forum is a New Labour friendly business organisation chaired by [[Baroness Goudie]]. It was set up in 1995 as part of the campaign by the Labour party to cosy up to big business.  This was one of the key mechanisms by which Labour proved to big business that it was no longer a threat and attempted to raise funding from the corporations thus lessening their dependence on the trade Unions.
 In 1999 - in the run up to the first Scottish Parliament elections -  it commissioned a survey on business attitudes to independence which unsurprisinbgly came up with the finding that:
 :A survey of 100 leading businesses has revealed that 75% of Scotland's biggest companies feel that independence for Scotland would be worse for business. The survey was carried out by MORI Scotland for the Scottish Industry Forum, the independent business organisation. Interviewing was conducted by MORI on 6-15 January. Asked if full independence would be better or worse for business, as opposed to a devolved Parliament as currently planned, only 6% felt the business environment would be improved.{{ref|Ipsos}}