The uncertainty has barely even begun
The cliff edge is 31st Dec 2020, and right now nobody has a farkin' clue what the 1st Jan 2021 will look like*. We won't until late October 2020 at the very earliest, too late to do much about it.
This year is thus a near-total write off as far as business investment goes, because the level of uncertainty is only going to increase due to Boris's recent Acts.
* Aside from being a worse economy than before. While few agree on how much worse, all vaguely competent analysts agree that it will definitely be worse. The most bullish proponents claim that in 50 years time the country will finally become better off than it otherwise would - and perhaps they are correct, though that's a rather long game, especially as the people claiming this - and practically everyone who wanted it - will be long dead.
But yeah, let's waste another half million on ringing a bell, instead of I dunno, paying some nurses or something.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
