If you’ve ever run a retail or catering business, you know that footfall is vital. A busy shop gets busier, a restaurant or cafe with empty tables is likely to stay empty. Is it any wonder that Burford’s business owners are incensed that visitor numbers might be restricted, because they upset some obviously non-business-owning presumably-retired residents? A better plan would be to move those who are upset to empty parts of the Cotswolds rather than moving the tourists. Maybe Mr Corbyn could make compulsory relocation part of his first Soviet-style Five Year Plan.
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Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?