To be fair, it is the busy season for Lincolnshire B&Bs, understandable he'd want to focus on his main LoB
Somewhere in Lincolnshire, there's a phone ringing in a B&B, and that phone isn't being answered.
Business is life and death. In hospitality, you're only ever one bad tripadvisor review away from bankruptcy.
And goth venues in Dunstable won't wait around forever. Business moves fast. There have been people trying to muscle in on promoting the Dunstable circuit for years, just waiting for you to make that single, fatal slip.
It's all about focus.
So I think this is all very similar to Rupert Murdoch splitting his business into two. It's just too much for one senior management team to concentrate on.