Brew Dog Owner

Save your breath. I've tried multiple times explaining things to him on migrants etc. You can post facts and evidence and then he just responds with prejudiced nonsense and says "well that's your opinion and I'm entitled to mine."

 

Pubs - smallish ones at least - are shutting because of COVID, inflation, and folk having nothing to spend. These are issues which have been building for years.

I'd be very surprised if the latest budget has anything at all to do with the vast majority of closures

 

So your saying the budget will cost more or create more jobs for working people? The rise in mw and n.i was to raise tax more than anything. No ones denying they got dealt a bad hand but they still gave billions to other countries, took the winter fuel then hit businesses.

 

I suspect that you don't really want a response, but I'll bite anyway. The NI and NMW increases don't touch the sides for most small businesses - speaking personally and for the couple of dozen other firms I know, it's a tiny amount compared to other pressures. My biggest one at the moment is my landlord - I seriously doubt Starmer's Labour are bothered about that, but I know 100% that the Tories or Reform won't be.

And the WFA is such a small amount. It's already been essentially taken away from pensioners - and everybody else - many times over by increased prices across the board. Haven't energy prices been going up by way more than it for the last few years? But pensions themselves also increased, thanks to the triple lock - did wages?

I'm absolutely no Starmer fan, but you're just repeatedly parroting talking points that we've all seen online but which have no basis in reality.

 

The same thing that led her into the creepy relationship with bojo the clowns old man. Money and or power

 

In a post on LinkedIn, Watt said that the Labour Government had made the UK economy worse and pledged to work on identifying similar cuts.

When you consider that the government's budget doesn't actually come into effect until the start of the next tax year in April, it's quite difficult to see how the government has made the economy worse. You'd think that somebody with experience in business would know this.

Growth has tanked.

What? The economy actually grew by 0.1% in the last quarter of 2024 when all predictions said it would shrink. I know that 0.1% doesn't exactly represent a boom, however, the economy has been flatlining for the last few years and shrank significantly in 2023. We will not see the effects of the budget till at least the end of this year or even the end of next year. The only significant growth was in the first quarter of last year which may have been engineered by the last government with the General Election in mind, I don't know, they certainly made unsustainable pre-election tax cuts.

 

You offered evidence that suggested the budget wasn’t great for retail.

What you fail to grasp (or actually refuse to take on board as you’ve been told enough) is why the decisions in the budget were made in the first place.