Quote Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier View Post
A lot of the merchants we deal with are your everyday pubs, restaurants, hairdressers, garden centres and their ilk. Another four to eight weeks I reckon is the tipping point for survival of what is the backbone of our economy, after that thousands of small businesses will simply close their doors and vanish. The impact will be devastating.

Obviously profit is v-i-t-a-l for a business to survive, but it seems to me the MNC's need a morality check. I have a sneaky feeling as the economy nosedives and jobs become even harder to find the Big Companies will just screw the workers even harder. Zero hour contracts and the gig economy will become the new "norm". Foook me I hope Boris reminds himself he is a Tory and re-opens our economy PDQ.
Very difficult balance for the Gov't.My local Esso petrol station/Spar shop closed down over the weekend and I can't see them re-opening.My niece owns a Tattoo parlour and employs her husband plus another couple of staff.She has applied to the Welsh Assembly for a grant but it will be June before she knows whether she will get anything or not,I can see the family having to find some short term funding.After speaking to a friend this morning who is a senior official of Welsh Water he believes that a lot of Companies will now be looking carefully at whether they need the big Offices they now occupy.He confirms that a lot of his staff are now working from home and the business is pretty much running as normal.Take Canary Wharf where all the Big Banks have their Head Offices and rents etc are obviously high,with ever increasing technology how many of the staff there could work from home.Times are changing.