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Knut Meiner fears that an entire industry could die without powerful corona measures.
STORTINGET / HALVORSENS KONDITORI (Nettavisen): Behind the scenes, the government is negotiating with Frp to agree on the latest crown measures.
Excited on the sidelines, Knut Meiner travels to Komon-Stageway, who has 24 years of experience in the industry and has voted Conservative since he was 18 years old.
Event-top leads a company that last year had a turnover of 127 million.
– If it turns into mushrooms, it’s probably lukewarm, he says with a little black humor about the impending solution.
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He says the events industry creates events large and small, for everything from a hundred to a thousand people, in the public and private sectors, and plays a much bigger role than many know.
– There are so many who live from what we generate. Our small industry is so important for airlines, hotels, light and sound providers, catering, printers, bus companies …, he lists.
– We are the axis of a long food chain.
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He despairs.
– How hit is your industry?
– He’s lying down with a broken back and on a respirator right now. We have largely lost 90 to 95 percent of sales since March 12 and we don’t see any improvement until there is a vaccine, Meiner told Nettavisen.
– It is extremely critical for many in the event industry. Now it is absolutely necessary to have a targeted support scheme that hits us significantly better than the government has proposed so far.
– Then I can no longer attest to it. I’m sorry!
– He has been a conservative for many years and now “threatens” to leave the party. Why?
– If it should be perceived as a threat, I’m not sure. But I am elected at Nordre Aker in Oslo and I am a Conservative member, and I have trouble understanding that a party that is supposed to be business friendly shows a complete lack of understanding. So I had a long conversation with myself, and if it’s not going to be the industry I started, I can’t vouch for that party anymore. Sorry, he says resignedly.
– How do you think the solution we are waiting for should be designed to be able to help you enough?
– We must cover more of the fixed and unavoidable costs. Until now, the scheme that has existed in the best of cases has given us between 15 and 25 percent, and it is clear that at a time when companies in the sector have no income, it is of little help to cover 20 percent. percent of your fixed costs. That is not enough at all!
Meiner says he is closely following the negotiations that are now taking place.
– We know that the opposition has registered proposals for solutions that the government obviously has trouble swallowing. We think it is strange, when there is still little more than NOK 45 billion left than was reserved for crisis measures in March / April. Now is the time to spend that money, he says.
– It makes sense, Erna!
Meiner is serious when considering leaving the Conservative Party:
– As a conservative ihuga man, I have never been so happy to have a minority government. Since this summer, I have spoken with fiscal politicians in the Socialist People’s Party, the Green Party and the Labor Party and received an incredible amount of support. Many say that it is easy to sit in opposition, but they believe they have shown a completely different understanding of the problem than the government has.
Specifically:
– The scheme of so-called open public events, we believe, should be extended to apply to closed business events, something that both the Center Party (Sp) and the Progress Party (Frp) support.
Meiner spoke directly to Prime Minister Erna Solberg because she contributed to her long-running speech.
– I spoke directly with Erna because she used the text that I have been writing for her speech at the national assembly, and although I was clear that it was good to say “we will take care of ourselves”, we have not seen a trace, he says resigned
– Finally: What do you want to say to Erna?
– It makes sense, Erna! Then I will not exclude myself. If it doesn’t make sense, I’ll opt out, says Meiner.
Trust Frp
Sp’s fiscal policy spokesman Sigbjørn Gjelsvik tells Nettavisen he is confident that Frp will not back down when it now plays a key role.
– Now the decision can come at any time, says Gjelsvik.
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