They’re avaricious bastards, it’s what they are. Huge, vast amounts of money flows through businesses and straight to landlords in London, strangling investment

They’re avaricious bastards, it’s what they are. Huge, vast amounts of money flows through businesses and straight to landlords in London, strangling investment in small businesses, their employees and the wider economy. Businesses with high margins, low inventory and low unskilled staffing costs win. In Germany, I note that thousands of small businesses flourish that vanished from London’s streets - I have a choice of places to have a kitchen knife sharpened, for example - and while London holds vast opportunity, I fear that its breadth is severely constricted and whole areas of industry, skills and expertise are effectively extinct as the startup Capex is too high, and the Opex is vampiric.