Reality Bites

The Exchange Fantasist promised lower rates bills before her disastrous budget last year. What she failed to take into account, however, was that business rates would be ‘revised’ and the resulting bill would be spectacularly higher based on the new valuation cum guess cum swindle.
    Thievin is now having to bail out pubs to stop the rate of closure becoming even more embarrassingly high, and the rest of the hospitality trade remains snapping at her ankles.