British Conservative Party Charges Govt. with Failing UK Game Biz

I think that both Liberals and Conservatives either both hate the videogame industry and some on both sides love the Videogame Industry because they are able to recognise the tallent and the money the games industry makes.

I think the more logical way of saying it, is that there are some of the older generation politicians who hate videogames and some of the younger generation politicians who like the videogame industry.

Maybe it is because they grew up playing videogames.

Also there are a few older politicians who think that the games industry has had a hard time with both a few nuts like Keith Vaz and the Daily Mail for all the negative publicity and I think it is those few wiser politicians who are trying to say the right things, but no one (not even the mainstream news media that gives politicians the air time they need to get votes) are ever going to listen to words of reason when lies and sensationalism makes more money out of a newsworthy story.

>Conservatives,

> blaming video game for crimes since 1970's (correct me if I'm wrong).

Actually what is happening here is that a conservative member of the UK parliament (a parlimentary minority right now) is saying that the current government (led by the labor party) is not doing enough to support the local video game industry, and it's why they're starting to fall behind countries like Canada.

> Are them claiming giving video game companies tax breaks is illegal?

No. At least Ed Vaizey is not saying that. When the UK gaming industry saw that it was hemmoraging talent and money, (two things that were moving to other countries that were giving out tax breaks and credits to boost their national gaming industries) the UK gaming industry asked the government to do something. The government, in it's very limp-wristed response said that it was going to take up the issue of the tax breaks with the World Trade Organization and see if they could be declared illegal (thus halting the flow of talent out of the country since those out of country gaming companies wouldn't have the cash to hire talent from outside their borders). The WTO basically scratched it's collective head at the question and said 'there's nothing illegal about that' and dismissed the case. Now the UK gov't has basically sat on it's hands and done nothing since, and people such as Ed Vaizey and Richard Wilson are telling the gov't to get off it's ass and help out it's gaming industry or it's going to lose out on a lot of money.

In my honest opinion (for whatever little that's worth) I don't think that the UK is going to offer these tax breaks until some of the self-aggrandizing politicians quiet down or are removed from office and parliament starts looking at the industry part of the gaming industry.

Yeah, usually the conservatives are less against videogame violence than their socialist counterparts.  But if you bung nudity in a game, the conservatives will be clamouring for a ban with frothy mouths.

Are them claiming giving video game companies tax breaks is illegal?

Actually the Conservatives are normally supportative of industries like this. It was under Thatcher that Video Nasties came about and I believe that the Conservatives supported them because they made money and the same goes with games too.