UK 2025: This is what you get when you let student politicians with no business experience run an economy!
If there’s one thing the business world should be sending up red flares about, it’s what we’re watching under the Labour government. Make no mistake, this isn’t a slip up, it’s a full blown, front row, slow motion car crash. And the carnage is piling up.
First shot fired: Sky Bet relocates to Malta
One of the UK’s biggest gambling firms has decided it’s had enough and is moving its headquarters to Malta. Tens of millions in tax revenue, gone. Vanished. Another British company pushed offshore because the UK is becoming one of the least business friendly environments in Europe. When companies feel they need to leave just to stay competitive, that’s not a signal, that’s an air raid siren.
Second salvo: ExxonMobil shuts its Mossmorran ethylene plant
Down in Fife, the Mossmorran plant, a major industrial employer, is being shut down, with ExxonMobil’s chairman Paul Greenwood openly saying that government policy is “deliberately” undermining business. When multinationals publicly accuse your government of strangling industry, you know something is seriously wrong.
And here’s the real kicker…
If you think Starmer and Reeves have already done a hatchet job on UK PLC, buckle up, because it’s only going to get worse. Once the Budget lands, they’ll be putting the boot into anyone with a few quid, a bit of success, or a half decent home. We all know the numbers, 10,800 millionaires, including 18 billionaires, packed their bags and checked out of the UK in 2024. And it’s not just the super rich jetting off. Middle class families, ordinary people who grafted for what they’ve got, are joining the exodus, leaving behind everything they know just for the chance of a better life somewhere their own government doesn’t treat them like a problem.
Telling it straight
This Labour government does not understand business, full stop. They couldn’t run a corner shop, never mind a modern economy competing on a global stage.
They have virtually zero private sector experience. Everything they know comes from old, dusty, discredited textbooks and political debating societies, not from meeting payroll, taking risks, innovating, or building anything real.
They have no respect for wealth creators, which is completely barking mad given that every public sector pound, NHS, schools, pensions, infrastructure, comes from private sector taxes. The private sector isn’t the enemy, it’s the engine.
But they are expert at two things,
- Spending money they didn’t earn, and
- Making rules that choke the life out of businesses trying to grow, hire and succeed.
The result? Companies leave. Investors flee. Jobs vanish. Tax revenues collapse. And ordinary people, workers, families, communities, pay the price.
If the government doesn’t wake up and change course, the UK will keep bleeding talent, capital, opportunity and confidence. Because here’s the truth no politician wants to say out loud:
If you punish success, don’t be surprised when success packs its bags and leaves.
