Yes i agree Mojo..if a business folds, the workers and its customers are often left with nothing. Thats the system and you know...many of those people who are wealthy through business get rich in that way. By hard noses cut and run rip off tax avoidance scamming.
At a lower level, why do you think there are so many fast food outlets on every high street? Aside from the lazy British penchant for eating crap..they are there because they are vehicle for fraud. All the money is cash in hand, many only trade for a short time. They dont pay their suppliers and they fiddle their gas and electric. Why do you think they only open in the evening? simples..they know thats when most of the trade happens and they know most of he authorities have finished work.
Many of the big national so called curry miles are built on fraud and worse,,the asian trade in Heroin.