Some of you are sticking your heads in the sand regarding Brexit. Day by day, jobs are leaving the UK. Although some announcements are being drowned out of the news by political events, people are also sticking their fingers in their ears.
People are not spending. I know a business owner with no orders of note so far this year. In central London where I’m based it’s very visibly quieter than previous January’s. Flybe is suddenly on its knees. M&S is cutting harder and faster than planned. Debenhams is looking very shaky. It’s all well and good citing examples of expansion, but these TUI cuts are around the country.
Tinfoil hat on mate! This is just the economic cycle, we're heading into the next recession, Germany is (almost) there already, and THAT's not Brexit related.
flybe have been on their knees for ages, mainly due to some very questionable management decisions
Knowing one guy with no orders in Q1 is not really a statistically significant example to be fair.
Debenhams is a victim of changing high street habits moving to Amazon et al, Woolies has gone, HMV is still dying.
None of this can in fairness be put down to a poltical decision to have more of our laws made in the UK rather than the EU.
BTW Thomas Cook isn't in the best of shape either but their business model has been squeezed badly, like TUI, by more agile competitors.
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