TRADERS in Swansea have told Shadow Business Secretary John Denham that business is at an all-time low.
Labour's answer to Vince Cable met with everyone from butchers to coffee shop owners on the day the party unveiled its Welsh manifesto.
Lee Vaughan represented Swansea Indoor market, which provides work for more than 500 people. He said being self employed now resembled slavery.
He added: "I've never known the city to be as bad as it is now.
"We have got 130 empty units in the city and it looks derelict.
"I'm working harder than I've ever worked in my life and the capital I've worked up over the years is now being put back into the business.
"To be a self employed independent trader these days is like slavery."
High Street trader Wayne Evans was also at the meeting at the Dragon Hotel and said one solution to the problems facing traders would be free parking across the city.
He said: "Business has been excessively bad in the last five weeks.
"I feel that the city is in such a mess."
Mr Denham yesterday told traders the coalition government in Westminster was putting growth in the economy at risk by making fundamental mistakes and cutting the deficit too fast.
He said: "What we understand is that the big growth in future must come from private business, we say that will happen but only if there is public investment, public support for skills training and public support for education.
"That way we can maintain public services at a decent standard," said Mr Denham.
Welsh Labour candidate for Swansea West Julie James said private sector jobs in Swansea were underpinned by public sector infrastructure funding.
She said: "What we need is people with money to spend who will spend it in the city centre.
"The Welsh Assembly under Labour will be committed to keeping the investments we have in place."
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