[The Earl of Chesterfield]

I guess there'd be summat almost noble about calling it quits.

Everyone - and I mean everyone - saying 'Okay Dave Allen, enough's enough, do what you want with the Club 'cos we'll have no more part in this'. And just staying away. Done. Finished.

A bit like, say, Captain Kirk initiating the Enterprises self destruct protocol rather than be enslaved by the Klingons (though I tend to see Carson as more of a Romulan than a Klingon).

Seriously though there're still a few good folk at CFC, like Jim Brown and Lisa in the shop, who'd lose their livelihoods. I honestly couldn't give a flying fornication other than them, mind...