And so it begins. 16 million people employed by small businesses, no price cap for them. Government asleep at the wheel and crashing the country
The death of the high street will well and truly kick in now. We will lose shops but we will lose experiences too, restaurants and bars are all going to feel the rise in energy prices and many will close as a result. It won’t help that customer numbers will plummet at the same time. It’s the perfect storm for them right now.
And any of those that tried to trade with Europe have had to give up on that due to Brexit.
What a wonderful time to be alive.
Bring on the riots and general strikes already.
Energy companies are ruining the high street!!
In June Labour put out a plan for the economy, their first statement was this.
>1. Stabilise the foundations of our economy by providing emergency support for business, reducing their costs and limiting the price rises they pass on to consumers. This includes:
> ○ A £600m contingency fund to support struggling firms and energy intensive industries, paid for by the one-off windfall tax on oil and gas producers announced by Labour in January.
> ○ A cut in **business rates for small and medium-sized businesses,** paid for by a temporary increase in the Digital Services Tax.
Before the cabinet resigned, before boris stepped down, before the leadership debate fiasco, before the windfall tax U-Turn. Around the time when we were talking about the rawanda flights and starmer being “boring”.
This was entirely predictable, Labour had a policy for it ready to go.
The government did nothing.
Another 2008 land and asset grab for those big enough to buffer the margins.
Twitter is FULL of these stories. It’s absolutely awful reading.
The laundry service I use just shut down today for this exact reason. Staffing issues were also a problem which I imagine is down to them being unable to offer a living wage.
So let me get this straight, we won’t impose a windfall tax on the companies making tens of billions out of this crisis because we don’t want to make Britain look like a hostile business environment where success is punished.
But small business owners putting in 60 hours a week to stay afloat as energy costs skyrocket through absolutely no fault of their own? Oh we’ll sure as shit punish them.
This country is a sick joke.
Our government told energy companies and fuel companies to kill the public and small businesses off… this was all in the Tory manifesto and corbyn said they’d do it but tories and the media made you think corbyn would do it…
All part of the great reset, and our government are complicit
“build back better”
“You’ll own nothing and be happy”
All part of the world economic forums agenda
Fuck these cocksnogging leaders in charge. Turning a blind eye to their own failures and yet we have to suffer for it.
We are probably looking at one of the worst Q4 in a long time. Tories will not act in any meaningful way until they see that Q4 spending.
I really have no idea what I’m going to do come October’s energy rise. My electric costs in my tiny cafe are crippling already and with the decline in customers, its just not sustainable. I love what I do so much but doubt I’ll make it to the new year.
And we are considered the fifth or sixth richest nation in the world
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And so it begins. 16 million people employed by small businesses, no price cap for them. Government asleep at the wheel and crashing the country
The death of the high street will well and truly kick in now. We will lose shops but we will lose experiences too, restaurants and bars are all going to feel the rise in energy prices and many will close as a result. It won’t help that customer numbers will plummet at the same time. It’s the perfect storm for them right now.
And any of those that tried to trade with Europe have had to give up on that due to Brexit.
What a wonderful time to be alive.
Bring on the riots and general strikes already.
Energy companies are ruining the high street!!
In June Labour put out a plan for the economy, their first statement was this.
>1. Stabilise the foundations of our economy by providing emergency support for business, reducing their costs and limiting the price rises they pass on to consumers. This includes:
> ○ A £600m contingency fund to support struggling firms and energy intensive industries, paid for by the one-off windfall tax on oil and gas producers announced by Labour in January.
> ○ A cut in **business rates for small and medium-sized businesses,** paid for by a temporary increase in the Digital Services Tax.
Before the cabinet resigned, before boris stepped down, before the leadership debate fiasco, before the windfall tax U-Turn. Around the time when we were talking about the rawanda flights and starmer being “boring”.
This was entirely predictable, Labour had a policy for it ready to go.
The government did nothing.
Another 2008 land and asset grab for those big enough to buffer the margins.
Twitter is FULL of these stories. It’s absolutely awful reading.
The laundry service I use just shut down today for this exact reason. Staffing issues were also a problem which I imagine is down to them being unable to offer a living wage.
So let me get this straight, we won’t impose a windfall tax on the companies making tens of billions out of this crisis because we don’t want to make Britain look like a hostile business environment where success is punished.
But small business owners putting in 60 hours a week to stay afloat as energy costs skyrocket through absolutely no fault of their own? Oh we’ll sure as shit punish them.
This country is a sick joke.
Our government told energy companies and fuel companies to kill the public and small businesses off… this was all in the Tory manifesto and corbyn said they’d do it but tories and the media made you think corbyn would do it…
All part of the great reset, and our government are complicit
“build back better”
“You’ll own nothing and be happy”
All part of the world economic forums agenda
Fuck these cocksnogging leaders in charge. Turning a blind eye to their own failures and yet we have to suffer for it.
We are probably looking at one of the worst Q4 in a long time. Tories will not act in any meaningful way until they see that Q4 spending.
I really have no idea what I’m going to do come October’s energy rise. My electric costs in my tiny cafe are crippling already and with the decline in customers, its just not sustainable. I love what I do so much but doubt I’ll make it to the new year.
And we are considered the fifth or sixth richest nation in the world