- Enough is enough.
Coronavirus is destroying livelihoods.
Businesses are going down the pan
for no fault of their own.
And in this video,
I wanna discuss that problem.
I've just seen today that France and Germany
are now about to go into
another month-long lockdown.
If that happened in the UK,
what's gonna happen to my business,
your business,
your employer's business,
your employees' businesses and livelihoods.
Oh my God!
So much that can be destroyed by Coronavirus
and we've just got to carry on and live our lives.
I wanna discuss that in this video.
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Guys, I posted on my social media.
You can follow me at
James Sinclair's Entrepreneurs Network on Facebook,
James Sinclair on LinkedIn
and all the other things
but I put this, enough is enough.
Closing the economy down
is going to literally kill people
and destroy livelihoods.
People's health and wealth
is directly linked.
If people have money
they put their heating on in their home,
and buy food,
and keep a roof over their head.
Take that away and what suffers?
You've got it, gang.
The answer is people's health.
COVID isn't going anywhere.
In my opinion, it's here to stay.
This picture
that I'm about to put here
is a supermarket in Wales.
Closing down non-essential retail in supermarkets.
Well look, just stupid.
That's less hours
for people working in supermarkets.
And this particular picture,
they're not allowed to sell Lego.
So now the people that work
in the Lego factory
are not allowed to make as much Lego.
And people like Amazon
are just going to make more money.
And quite frankly,
they've got plenty.
Not that I've got a problem with Amazon,
by the way.
I sell on Amazon.
We need to wake up now.
Our country's debt is spiraling,
jobs are going,
businesses failing through no fault of their own,
and I could go on.
I'm well and truly fed up
of our lives being slowly taken away.
This has got to end.
The government's have now got more power
than they've ever had.
So yeah,
I've got a problem with
this Welsh supermarket thing.
You can't buy,
you can buy a box of celebrations,
but you can't buy baby's clothes, I've heard.
And you can't buy books,
and bloody hell,
people are cooped up indoors with nothing to do.
And they can't buy a bit of Lego for their kids
to do something in the winter.
I just feel so angry
about the jobs that are being lost.
People of friends of mine,
their businesses are being destroyed,
the economy is going down the pan,
people's livelihoods being destroyed.
My view is,
you know,
from opening a visitor attraction
and seeing all the people
that are coming to our businesses.
Most people are sensible.
Most people are sensible!
They're wearing masks more than ever before.
They're sanitizing their hands
at every opportunity they've got.
So, my view is,
we've got to open up the economy,
get everything back to normal,
but be as sensible as possible.
And here's the other thing,
we're at the view that
we're going to have a second lockdown.
Like Germany,
like France.
So that's going to happen,
this winter,
before Christmas.
But my answer today is,
lock down one didn't solve the problem.
So we're gonna have another lockdown,
and we're gonna have another lockdown
in three months time.
Are we gonna have another lockdown in six months?
People can't live like this,
businesses can't survive.
So many more illnesses
are going to come about of this
because of Coronavirus.
There isn't Coronavirus,
you know mental health,
you know people cutting things back
where they shouldn't be.
And here's the other thing
that I've got a real problem with,
there is no guarantee that a vaccine will work.
I've read so many things about this.
So, you know,
everyone's waiting for the glory days
of a vaccine.
But there is no guarantee
that it's going to work,
and we could just be on
lockdown, lockdown, lockdown, lockdown,
and businesses after businesses,
and jobs after jobs will go.
My view is
we've got to get back to normal now.
As normal as we can be,
but be sensible.
Masks,
washing hands,
doing all this social distancing stuff.
Coronavirus isn't going to go away.
There's no guarantee of a vaccine.
And I'm worried about your business.
I'm worried about my business.
I'm worried about my 500 employees.
I just,
it's so tough guys.
So gang,
we're on the edge further restrictions in Essex,
where our businesses were in tier two
of these three tier lockdown thing-a-majiggy's
but they're not really lock downs.
I think we're going to go into tier three,
what can you do
to make sure your business is ready?
You've got to make sure,
it still shocks me to my inner core
that businesses are not online
and not focusing enough online.
There are so many opportunities online
for you to make more money,
make sure that your business
still has a presence online.
If I look at some of the things
that our business has done,
we've opened a farm shop,
we've opened a Christmas shop,
we made it online as well.
We're doing deliveries for the
products and services where possible.
My seminar business went.
So,
I took all the training
and all the videos that I've done,
I put it into Entrepreneurs University,
which you can try for free on my website,
jamessinclair.net.
And my teddy bear businesses was wholesale,
we turn that into a B2C business.
And we got that all on Amazon.
We put it on Etsy,
we put it on eBay now,
so that we're making sure
that we still got some revenue streams coming in.
Now is the time to pivot
to where the new profit is.
And that's what smart entrepreneurs
and business owners are doing.
Look,
people keep saying,
oh, they'll never do that.
You know,
I won't comply.
Look, governments have got armies
and police forces.
So you have to comply
until you get your own army and police force.
And I'm not advocating that is a great idea.
So make sure that you see
where the hungry audience is.
And there is always hungry audiences.
We learned that with,
now people couldn't buy food in lockdown one.
That's why we opened our farm shop
because we had a supply chain to get food
into our businesses because of our restaurants.
We've sold all that stuff off.
There is always a solution for
those people that are hungry for a solution.
And that's what I've always identified
what successful people have.
They have a hunger to sort things out.
They have a hunger for entrepreneurship.
They have a hunger to be successful.
And whilst that hunger
still raring up in your belly,
then you will always be super successful.
And you will get through this torrid time.
In the meantime,
don't forget write your MPs,
tell them to get involved,
and lobby government.
Not to close our economies down
and our livelihoods any further,
because Coronavirus is here to stay.
There is no guarantee that
a vaccine's going to save the day.
That's just my opinions.
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