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Weekly UK reminder: there are other places in the UK that isn’t London.
The North has been under lockdown, lockdown light and now tier 3 since March. Our hospitality industry is on its knees, with no clear plan of when (or how) it will reopen.
The North has been under lockdown, lockdown light and now tier 3 since March. Our hospitality industry is on its knees, with no clear plan of when (or how) it will reopen.
The news of London needing to move to tier 3 has everyone calling for a ‘plan’ for hospitality, with financial support packages before it happens. The North didn’t have a plan. The North has had no support. Yet hospitality is still locked down, and suffering badly.
Christmas was always going to be a critical point in the UK. Busy cities with shoppers (even in T3 places), social gatherings to celebrate the festivities - it seems the general public want to carry on as ‘normal’. Blame culture and division on the rise here, of course.
There is also an issue of trust. We now have experience of how this pandemic started, and the sheer lack of emergency from our government. The public have started to draw their own conclusions about what *should* be right or wrong and following their own rules. Trust is broken.
London moving in to Tier 3 is not a direct attack on hospitality. It is to further restrict a capital city to try and stop an even bigger rose in cases since this virus took hold in the UK. It should always have been in Tier 3.
This virus will not go away unless there is clear, robust and effective action taken nationally. Local lockdowns are clearly not working. The tier system is clearly not working. we need a national approach, with the full cooperation of the public.
If you’re still reading, if you want to see how it can happen, read this.
Just keep in mind though, that everywhere in the UK is not London. https://www.ft.com/content/1dc30522-da7f-4bad-adf2-5637718c7143
Just keep in mind though, that everywhere in the UK is not London. https://www.ft.com/content/1dc30522-da7f-4bad-adf2-5637718c7143
