They’re Coming Home! Why WEFIX London Is Growing at 240% Annually, While Others Are Going Backwards
When I sold the business I founded back in 1979, I genuinely thought that chapter of my life was over. After more than four decades building Pimlico Plumbers into one of Britain’s best-known home services companies, and selling it in 2021 for around £150 million, I thought it was time to step away from the […]
University? The maths still doesn’t add up – Any first-year apprentice can tell you that!
A third of people now think university isn’t worth the time or money. The real surprise is that two-thirds still do. MPs are launching an inquiry into England’s student loan system after more than 50,000 graduates submitted evidence about the debt they’re carrying and the way student loans are repaid. At the same time, new […]
You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, Britain’s Political Class Proves Mick Jagger Right Again
On January 31, 2020, Britain finally “did Brexit”. Boris Johnson stood outside Downing Street promising a reborn, buccaneering economy, freed from Brussels bureaucracy and ready to conquer the world. Six years later, the political weather has changed so dramatically that the contest among Labour’s leading figures increasingly resembles a bidding war over who can edge […]
THE GANGSTERS ARE TAKING OVER BRITAIN’S HIGH STREETS, AND THE GOVERNMENT IS LETTING IT HAPPEN
Britain’s high streets are dying in plain sight, and into the empty shops left behind by honest traders are marching organised crime gangs disguised as businessmen. This is not exaggeration, it is reality. The local butcher, the family newsagent, the independent shoe shop, the proper café, the electrical retailer, they are disappearing because they cannot […]
Turning Customers’ Ideas into ‘Beautiful Bathrooms to be Proud of’ is the Inspiration that Drives Tracey, WEFIX London’s Latest Plumbing Recruit!
WEFIX London’s latest signing to our trade team is plumber Tracey Healy came to the industry later than most at the age of 31 after forays into physio therapy, HR and finance but looking back he says: “I always felt like something was missing when it came to job satisfaction!” Her dad was a builder […]
Over 75% of WEFIX London’s Bookings Come From Disgruntled Pimlico Plumbers Customers & it Doesn’t Take a Rocket Scientist to Figure out Why!
Gone are the days when the once iconic London home service company had engineers at the ready 24-hours a day. Call them with a plumbing emergency at 11pm nowadays and you get a third-party call centre insisting they are fully booked for the night, but an engineer will be available sometime between 8am and 2pm […]
What’s the Difference Between WEFIX London and the Artemis II Mission to the Moon?
Both WEFIX and the NASA moon rocket went ballistic immediately after launch, and both teams are famous for unblocking khazis! But there is one major difference that separates the two operations and that’s the fact that the Artemis II crew came back down to earth while at WEFIX London we are still on a rapid […]
The Number of UK Workers Signed Off Work ‘On the Sick’ is Staggering – Something Doesn’t Add Up!!
We’re told that since 2019 there’s been a dramatic rise in the number of working-age people being signed off work, tens of thousands more every year, driven largely by stress, anxiety, depression, and young people struggling to make the jump from education into employment. Now look, I’m not dismissing mental health. It’s real, it matters, […]
The Crippling Blockage you Don’t Need a Plumber to Fix!
There’s a blockage restricting growth in the UK economy, but nobody seems prepared to wield the plunger and get things flowing again. The problem is obvious and no secret but for reasons of money and snobbery all efforts to fix the huge mismatch between employers’ needs and the skills the education is failing to deliver. […]
WEFIX London Joins The King after Choosing Variety – the Children’s Charity as its Primary Charity with a Pledge to Fund a New Sunshine Coach every Year
WEFIX London have joined forces with Variety – The Children’s Charity, a move which will see all our vehicles proudly carrying to logo of this life-changing organisation that is dedicated to enabling every child to live their best life possible. In today’s challenging times Variety’s work is more important than ever, with 4.3 million children […]