#LockdownVoices
"I've gone from being a successful entrepreneur employing 120+ staff to practically bankrupt, and likely to lose my home.
There was little or no support for the company - furlough + bounce back loans nowhere near sufficient, + zero support for me individually...
"I've gone from being a successful entrepreneur employing 120+ staff to practically bankrupt, and likely to lose my home.
There was little or no support for the company - furlough + bounce back loans nowhere near sufficient, + zero support for me individually...
"I was a major shareholder and director of a large Event Production company...
We had turned it from a loss-making £2 million turn over business in 2009 to a £45million turn over profitable business employing 120 permanent and many more part time staff...
We had turned it from a loss-making £2 million turn over business in 2009 to a £45million turn over profitable business employing 120 permanent and many more part time staff...
"Inevitably the business hit a brick wall in March 2020.
We spent all last summer trying to save the company but when it was clear that there was going to be no recovery last Autumn, we were forced to close down making everyone redundant...
We spent all last summer trying to save the company but when it was clear that there was going to be no recovery last Autumn, we were forced to close down making everyone redundant...
"Obviously I have lost my investment and any potential for profit and now am likely to lose my home to pay off the finance company who have continued to charge high (short term) interest rates.
All a complete nightmare...
All a complete nightmare...
"Quite frankly if I was better off dead than alive it would have been an option.
However I will do what I can to rescue my family and find some way of recovering. It will not be in the Event Production business which will be destroyed for many years and may never come back...
However I will do what I can to rescue my family and find some way of recovering. It will not be in the Event Production business which will be destroyed for many years and may never come back...
"...after the absurdities of lockdown and the constant threat of Governmental intervention shutting down our business for extensive periods due to viruses that are no more dangerous than a bad flu epidemic - the final figures are likely to show that this is the case..."
Just one #LockdownVoices story shared with us, but we know there are so many more.
Every day restrictions continue, more livelihoods are lost. No nation gets healthier by getting poorer.
So whatever happens this "snail's pace" move out of lockdown MUST also be our last...
Every day restrictions continue, more livelihoods are lost. No nation gets healthier by getting poorer.
So whatever happens this "snail's pace" move out of lockdown MUST also be our last...
Covid restrictions come with terrible costs, not least to our small business owners. Covid 19 is serious but we believe the 'cure' is far worse than the disease.
If you haven't already, join our campaign now to fight for a better way, at: timeforrecovery.org
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