UK to leave EU

[Pat Mustard]

Deregulators love small businesses, right up until it is time to fuck those businesspeople up the arse with deregulation.

How does one fuck up a businesspeople up the arse with deregulation? I'm curious.

Because removing regulations gives a bigger advantage to the big boys relative to what they would have in a more heavily regulated market. For example a big reason why small stores are increasingly rare is because the rules governing the maximum floor space in supermarkets was very much loosened, along with rules prohibiting loss leader products. The big supermarkets were able to take advantage of these two deregulations to crowd out a lot of high street and local shops despite there being no competitive advantage for most people to shop at the big supermarkets (especially when you factor in transport costs, the slight increase in prices in smaller shops being more than offset for most people by the cost of petrol to get to a supermarket). This contraction in the market also had a knockon effect for producers with, for example, UK farmers now getting much less than the cost of produce for what they sell to the supermarkets (offset only by CAP payments, and then only in part).