| Comment | I 100% agree that there should be support for these businesses, but without borrowing powers or an autumn budget from the UK government, which is essential for allowing us to plan ours, how does our government provide that? The Scottish government are getting a lot of shit for this but it does seem to be having an effect on covid rates, so from a public health perspective is working. Isn’t the idea with being open 12-6 that employers can try get some lunch trade, to generate revenue for the part of the JSS that the treasury won’t cover, then have the scheme cover the part of being closed in the evening that seems to be working on a public health level? It seems to me the thing they are getting lambasted for is the thing they have least control over - our budget plans are dependent on the UK government budget August statement and we just didn’t get any clarity from that, as we head into a winter cresting a second wave? It seems to me Rishi Sunak should be getting pelters for this as well but all the anger is focused on Holyrood. |
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