# Business Owner Questions John Healey Over Promised Financial Relief - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2115739200335360287 - Source account: [@MarioCreatura](https://x.com/MarioCreatura) - Source language: English - Duration: 1:52 - Published: 2026-10-31 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief) John Healey, if you're listening, where's my breathing space? [0:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=2) You've, you promised me. Mm-hmm. You promised the UK breathing space. [0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=4) Where is it? You know, I was really positive. [0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=6) You know, Andy's a Northerner, and I thought, "He gets it." [0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=9) Yes. He g- he gets it. He's listening. And in the headlines, John Healey: "We're gonna give families and business owners breathing space." I read it. [0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=20) I don't qualify for the business rates. This 20% business rate relief. [0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=24) Don't, I don't qualify for that. Because? [0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=25) Because I'm multi-site. Right. So I have, I have, I have- You've got more than one shop. [0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=28) I've got more- You've got two shops left ... I've got two shops. [0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=30) Yeah. So I don't qualify for that. The minimum wage is increased, which, uh, we, we ask every business owner, it, it... I'm not saying that we shouldn't pay staff. [0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=38) Mm-hmm. What I'm saying is we can't afford to pay them. [0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=39) Oh, for, oh, only for over 21s, though, so you could still hire somebody younger than 21, and they wouldn't have been affected by this particular- Yeah, but all my, all my staff now currently- Have been with you for years ... that have, have been with us- Yeah ... for years. So I'm gonna have an approximately £700 a week increase. [0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=55) If I, if I'm having a £700 a week increase, my suppliers are having a, an increase. My supplier bill's around 20 to £30,000 a week. [1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=63) That'll be 10%, so £2,000 to £3,000 a week, so that's £4,000 a week I've gotta find. [1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=67) And how many pies is that? That's about 20 to 30,000 pies a week. [1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=71) Oh, my God. So I'm gonna... I've got, me week has gone up. [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=75) I've got no business rates. I've got no relief. [1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=77) The national insurance is crippling me. The energy crisis is crick- crippling me. [1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=81) I'm gonna have to put me prices up. Customers are gonna get mad. [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=84) They're gonna re- I'm gonna get less profit. [1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=87) Mm-hmm. So I'm gonna get less profit. Me as a family, as a director, I've gotta take a 2% cut, so my family, my one-year-old girl, we're a family, I'm taking a pay cut. Me business is taking a pay cut. [1:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=100) What, how, how, how is that breathing room for me? [1:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=103) Yeah, I- How, how, how, where, where's my breathing space? [1:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=105) M- John Healey, if you're listening, where's my breathing space? [1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RLHZr42eI6FY/en/business-owner-questions-john-healey-over-promised-financial-relief?t=107) You've, you promised me. Mm-hmm. You promised the UK breathing space. Where is it?