Both I and many colleagues, it seems, think that, despite everything, things will, and perhaps can only get better (don’t you almost miss New Labour?) That positivity is often, to quote another ’80s hit, against all odds. Here are some headlines from just one trade publication (IFA Magazine, I’m looking at you) this week:
- Could rising taxes force over a third of UK small businesses to quit the UK?
- Nearly one third of Brits face financial uncertainty amid growing economic pressures
- Poor remote work conditions bleeding £61 billion a year in productivity from UK businesses
- HSBC UK reveals you need to earn £213K per year to be considered wealthy
All of these click throughs arrived in just one email. OK, they had the desired effect, and I did ‘click through’. But were I of the glass-half-empty persuasion, it might easily have confirmed any thoughts I had of selling up, shipping out and heading for the sunlit uplands.
