02/06/2024
What I remember Mr Stevenson, is you doing NOTHING to support MY BUSINESSES during the Central Plaza crisis. Any money local businesses received was due to MY persistence, even then it was pennies in comparison to our losses.
You did NOTHING when the council evicted MY BUSINESSES from our fixed entertainment premises during COVID, with NO relocation funds and NO COVID GRANTS IN OUR NEW PREMISES AS WE WERENT ACTIVELY TRADING THROUGH NO FAULT OF OUR OWN, NO BUSINESS RATES RELIEF THAT ALL OTHER LEISURE COMPANIES RECIEVED, AGAIN, BECAUSE WE WERE NOT ACTIVELY TRADING.. who can relocate a fixed entertainment centre during COVID, with NO relocation grant, NO access to the COVID grants and reliefs we should have had and trade the next day?..
Regardless I built my businesses up again from nothing - 3 times!… ME!!!!
And when my new business premises flooded in December 2022, having spent two years rebuilding on profit alone YOU DID NOTHING TO SUPPORT US THEN EITHER. We are still unable to open due to a short fall in insurance.
During each rebuild stage I was working 20 hours a day, trying to save everything. At a HUGE cost not only has my health deteriorated but I lost time with precious loved ones that were dying of Cancer. No amount of money will buy that back!..
SO, NO!!!….MR STEVENSON, YOU WILL NOT GET MY VOTE AND I URGE OTHER LOCAL BUSINESSES TO LOOK AT THIS POST AND VOTE THE SAME!
Carlisle City Council Allerdale Borough Council Councillor Christopher Scott Cumbria Crack John Stevenson