The Second Lockdown May Be Easier To Navigate

England now faces a second lockdown starting on Thursday, déjà vu for the hospitality, non-essential retail, travel and tourism.  Whilst nobody believed that coronavirus wasn't still an ever-present risk costing lives and hampering the economy at least a semblance of business life was beginning to pick up.  For the hospitality, tourist and retail industries this could not have come at a worst time.  Many pubs, bars and restaurants that have been clinging on by their finger tips and will be seriously worried that they will not be able to sustain their tenuous position in the face of another enforced period of lockdown. 

The furlough scheme has been restored until early December when the latest lockdown is said to be ending but with the hints from various sources that soon to be imposed lockdown is likely to extend beyond the 2 December (with no suggested end date), most organisations presume that the lockdown will be extended.  Giambrone's corporate and commercial