Deli van owners backed by locals after being forced to pay £6k or leave spot during Eurovision
Owners of a deli van in Liverpool are being backed by locals after being forced to pay £6,000 or leave their spot during the Eurovision song contest. After Liverpool was announced as the city that would play host to the annual singing contest in May, street traders Patsy Murphy and Rebecca Molloy received a letter from Liverpool City Council.
She has instead been offered an alternative pitch three miles away at Riverside Drive where she says there is no passing trade whatsoever. "Another stopped and said he was ashamed to be a Scouser. These are the real people of Liverpool who don't like to see a wrong." "If this is true it must be reversed. There's no social value in exploitation. These people spend their profits in the local economy and employ local people. They must not be shafted in this way."
Speaking about the required costs, Patsy said: "Morally I would never do that. It would mean having to hike our prices up by three times and I can't do that to families in Liverpool who are already struggling. We are supposed to be there to provide affordable food. I would rather have no money than do that, I'm not ripping people off.
"We just feel as though we have been shown no respect at all by the council. We come from a proud family of street traders and we weren't even consulted about this. They want us to just go away for two weeks so they can make as much money as possible and then come back and pick up the crumbs. I don't know who is making these decisions, but if I was them I would be struggling to sleep at night. Shame on them.
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