Our economy is funded by businesses. That’s a fact. Businesses generate wealth, jobs, growth, and technology. They are the beating heart of the economy and essential to its survival.
You only need to look at the failure of the Soviet experiment, or the way China has embraced business over the past twenty years, to understand that.
In 2025, we have a cabinet, the group of people running the country, in which not a single member has ever run a business. As far as I can tell, almost none have even worked in one. They are lawyers, academics, and career civil servants.
That becomes painfully obvious when you look at the decisions they’re making.
At every turn, they are making it harder to run a business and stripping away incentives to build wealth. This doesn’t appear to be the result of careful economic reasoning, but of dogma and ideology overriding practical reality.
The worst part is that I don’t believe they understand the damage they’re doing. They lack the experience and perspective to grasp how harmful these decisions are for UK businesses. The reality is simple: entrepreneurs will go elsewhere to build companies.
And we will be left on our island, wondering where the growth went.
