2025-12-11
This is an attack on the small businesses upon which rural and not so rural communities depend.
Like the lockdowns in days of Covid, small businesses will be forced into closure whilst big businesses buy up their assets for pennies on the pound - prove me wrong? Even if they don't, they will flood the now less crowded marketplace with mass-produced products that will be the only affordable products available.
So the monopolies move in and the creative potential of the small business will be replaced by the bland sameness of the big chains, and whilst the local people won't be able to push up prices to cover taxes and costs, the big corporates will make a killing.
Just as the supermarkets have over the years pushed out the retail grocers, bakers, hardware stores, and made inroads on the clothing front, so too now the market for small pubs restaurants and more importantly, farmers will be passed from control by the many to control by the very few, all courtesy of "our" elected government that no longer works for the people - if it ever did.
" ... the Fox Inn in Patching, West Sussex ... shut the doors in October after costs tripled since 2021 and a letter arrived warning that his business rates would double next year"
It's much the same in the US apparently (this is not financial advice!) ... although there's a caveat:
"The theory that it’s driven by health preferences is certainly possible, but until we can see consumer behaviour in a more benign price environment, it’s too soon to fully adopt that thesis"
Hmmm.
