Businesses like WEFIX London are fighting to stay afloat every day. Checking boilers, fixing leaks, hiring apprentices, paying bills, getting stuck in 24/7 when no one else will. We’re the backbone of this country’s economy. But you’d scarcely know it from the way we’ve been treated by Keir Starmer’s anti-business government.

This week’s terrible job figures tell the same sad story. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK employment rate dropped to 75% in the three months to September 2025, and the unemployment rate shot up to 5%. And this is no short-term blip since ONS figures also show that the UK PLC’s payroll shrunk by around 117,000 over the last 12 months.

Think about that: more people out of work, fewer people earning and spending, fewer customers walking into shops, and those that do watching every penny. For small firms already squeezed by rising costs, energy bills, insurance premiums and business rates, this isn’t just a statistic — it’s a signal that things are going south, and fast.

Starmer’s Labour are failing the UK People!

The government talks a big game about “backing British business” and creating “growth”. But the reality doesn’t match the bullshit! Truth is, what they have delivered is a string of broken promises, tax hikes and job losses.

• At the 2024 general election the Labour Party manifesto said taxes for ‘working people’ would not increase, but they have already hiked tax for every worker and every business with the massive employers’ NI raid.
• Promises of support for older people have been discarded – Winter Fuel Payments were immediately cut, and the expected 2% income tax raid will hit pensioners hard.
• The manifesto claimed Labour would partner with business to deliver growth. But with job numbers falling and costs rising, that partnership, if it ever existed, is broken.

In less than 18 months in office, most of the promises made by Labour during the 2024 election campaign have been abandoned. They aren’t managing the UK economy, they’re letting it waste away.

Here’s where I start getting angry. Small-business owners know a thing or two about leadership: you roll up your sleeves; you listen to your people and make common sense decisions based on what you hear. Sadly, the PM is only interested in disciplining and controlling members of his own government who dare to disagree with him.

Starmer is spending his energy not on fixing Britain, but on policing his own party. Dissenting MPs are disciplined, sidelined, muzzled for voicing any view that doesn’t toe the party line.

In record time, the PM has managed to become the most unpopular PMs in modern British history, and the small-business community knows better than most why. We’re being ignored, our voices silenced, our livelihoods jeopardised.

When your boss treats dissent as a crime, when business owners and voters feel shut out, that’s not leadership that’s a dictatorship with tactics straight out of Joe Stalin’s Soviet play book.

The Reckoning is coming (and it’s coming fast)

Word on the street is, Number 10 is panicking. With a huge Commons majority you’d expect stability, strength, confidence. Instead, we have wild media speculation suggesting angry MPs, many senior, are plotting to topple the PM.

And Rachel Reeves budget-bomb in a couple of weeks, bringing more tax hikes, and burden on already battered small-businesses sector will very likely be the trigger for open revolt against Starmer.

Businesses (and their customers) cannot absorb more pain. The UK has only escaped recession by a hair’s breadth since the Labour take-over. But when the budget lands and small firms stop hiring and unemployment creeps higher, recession will be unavoidable, as will Starmer’s sacking.

Not asking for hand-outs

Businesses are not asking for freebies or hand-outs, they just want a government gives them a level playing field and the respect they deserve. And that’s a government that understands what it’s like to be out there making things happen, not just giving speeches in Whitehall.

Businesses are the beating heart of the UK, and if they are left to fail, the whole country will go under.