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First lockdown, now cost of living crisis – UK small businesses on the brink

SMALL MATTER

Like the canary in a coal mine, small businesses are indicators of the health of a country's economy.

Unfortunately, the canary sits and sways, as Sun Business revealed today.

Many of these businesses,pushed to the brink or beyond by pandemic lockdowns, are now being hit again by skyrocketing costs.

One-third said his bills increased by more than 50% in the past year.

And as costs are expected to skyrocket many times over the next few months, thousands of these companies face the very real prospect of hitting a wall. .

Simply passing all the extra costs onto consumers proves impossible for many, but those consumers themselvesfeel pressured by their cost of living. has.

These small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy, from the jobs they provide to the taxes they pay to the practices they give to their suppliers.

When they fall, other dominoes will soon begin to fall as well.

Little wonder that a growing number of frustrated Britons wantToryleadership to end his circus now and focus on the crisis.

At the very least, the civil servant should get off his August sunlounger and make a proper plan for giving the presentation to the new Prime Minister on opening day.

What Will Go Up

It should be a huge relief for drivers that wholesale fuel prices are finally back to pre-Russia invasion levels in Ukraine. .

We say "should" because, as it is now depressingly familiar, that price plunge has not been pumped. .

Forecoat prices react like lightning when wholesale costs rise, thus industry racketeering that drivers are being overcharged by up to 30 pence per liter It is difficult to dispute the accusation of

It's also getting more and more difficult to understand why The Sun's call for a price regulator for Pumpwatch has yet to be "implemented." Until the Treasury also remembered that in VAT he was benefiting from a price that ballooned to £10 million a day.

Seemingly complicit in gasoline profiteering is always bad, but now it's downright scandalous.

END RESULT

Hearing classified soccer results read out on the radio used to be part of a Saturday afternoon.

Sure, most fans get their scores on their phones these days, butthere's still something sad about the BBC sneaking pasture this institution. There are. I am happy that I survived long enough.

And following protests about service culling, we might expect a reversal of injury time . It seems to be a case of "de".