Southend are sadly screwed by an owner who sees the pound signs in redeveloping the ground for housing it seems. Let's hope they pull through and then the impending housing crash results in their current owner being hurt in the pocket because anyone who lets a football club die for their own gain deserves everything coming to them. Football isn't a normal business, it's a community
If Southend go bust it makes me shudder to think that Hashtag United (formed in 2016 by a youtuber) could become the highest placed club in the pyramid in that area, they are currently based in Pitsea (very close to Southend) and have just got promoted - with Bowers and Pitsea FC going in the opposite direction - and Hashtag are now in the same league as Canvey Island and Concord Rangers.
Dagenham aren't in Es*** anymore (East London borough these days) and both Gillingham and Ebbsfleet are closer to Southend than D&R, though those two are of course on the other side of the Thames Estuary. I'm sure they'd reform and rise up the levels fairly quickly but there is a danger Hashtag might gain a fair bit of extra support from this, I can't be doing with these fake clubs like FC United of Manchester.
I'm still waiting for the government to reclaim the ferlough money they were paid seeing as they were given insurance payments for the pandemic...!!