Yes, exactly, and I think all they’ve wanted to do is to try and tell the council, ‘Look, these are our problems. This is what we’re trying to overcome. We want people to spend their money here in the town centre but currently they’re not.’ We have to get around that and I think sometimes that the intransigence of local authority officials is actually stifling development in their own backyard, which is an embarrassing indictment on them when actually the businesses only want to support what the council is doing in relation to those business developments.

I’ve had my little rant for the day but I think that it’s important that we try and support our businesses, as Janet said, not just on Small Business Saturday but every day of the week, even if it is online.