By Denis Sheehan, Publisher, H&C News
Dear everyone working in hospitality,
If you are unable to cast your mind back to what you were doing on 20 May 2020, we can help…
If you were an employer – you were not employing.
If you were an employee – you were not employed.
If you were a supplier – you were not supplying.
The reasons for your commercial hibernation were in the interests of protecting you and yours from the perils of Coronavirus. Following laws set down by the government, devised by them with the help of the Civil Service in Whitehall.
Unbeknown to you until yesterday – and despite the countless denials of party’s taking place by the PM, his ministers, and the Conservative MPs in Parliament – many party’s did take place for those on the PM’s principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds’ guest list.
On the day in question 100 members of the Downing Street and Whitehall law making glitterati received an invitation from the PM’s principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds. The invitation requested their presence in the No 10 garden to socialise and bring their own booze to do so.
So, the very people that forced your business to close decided to create their own hospitality venue, No 10 Downing Street, to raise a glass or three and laugh in your face for following their rules.
ITV reporters who broke this latest example of the PM and government flouting the law have cited not just the email invitation itself, but first hand conversations with attendees confirming the PM was in attendance himself.
At this point it seems unnecessary to reference any further evidence of the laws of the land that clearly do not apply to the current government, as the Metropolitan Police fail to take any action. Actions that were taken against your peers in hospitality on that same day.
Today there are thousands of deceased hospitality businesses as a direct consequence of the law on 20 May 2020, and 100’s of thousands of people no longer employed by them.
They no longer provide for the livelihoods of the people who created those businesses, or the teams of people who worked with them, employees and suppliers.
The people who created and imposed the laws that – broke these businesses – broke the people within these businesses – also broke the law, their law to be precise. These people can be aptly labelled as party animals who deride hospitality.
If you choose to vote for them the next time you are given the opportunity…