“Ticking Timebomb”: 500,000 UK Small Businesses Could Imminently Go Bust
- UK GMan: “Don’t worry! The economy has collapsed, nuclear WW3 is starting, hyperinflation, food crisis is happening. But we will provide you with UBI and allow you to buy limited ration food. Just take the Mark of the Beast vaccine for your ‘666’ digital ID.”
– - “Ticking Timebomb”: 500,000 UK Small Businesses Could Imminently Go Bust
by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
As a stagflationary storm looms over the UK economy, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) chairman warned of a tsunami of small business closings without new support packages from the government.
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FSB chairman Martin McTague, recently told BBC Radio 4’s Today, “there is still a massive problem with small businesses. They are facing something like twice the rate of inflation for their production prices, and it’s a ticking timebomb. They have got literally weeks left before they run out of cash and that will mean hundreds of thousands of businesses, and lots of people losing their jobs.”
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McTague referred to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, showing that 2 million (or about 40%) of the UK’s small businesses had less than three months of cash in reserves to support operations. He noted that 10% (or 200,000) were in grave danger, and 300,000 only had a few weeks of cash left.
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