HowlingRedcoat retweeted
🚨NEW: A UK bank chief executive, reacting to John Healey's decision to raise the bank's profit surcharge said:
"Taxing the engines of growth to reduce VAT on gherkins is end-of-Rome level of stupidity"
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There is an easy solution to this
'Painful' years ahead, think tanks warn, as living standards set to fall bbc.in/4jIAUoU
HowlingRedcoat retweeted
I had the most bleak conversation with the (v. smart and competent) cafe owner down the road a few months ago who admitted they are extremely close to being forced to shutdown due to regulations and taxes. He was on the verge of tears. It's open seven days a week, busy all the time, solely hires young White Brits. If a place like this, that is well-run and is very popular locally is close to closure, what hope is there for 'the high street', let alone the wider economy?



























