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Wetherspoon boss urges pubs to back Reform By Henry Saker-Clark The founder of Wetherspoon has urged other pubs to back Reform UK. Sir Tim Martin, chairman of JD Wetherspoon, said Reform's plans to slash beer duty would help the sector move towards "tax parity with supermarkets". Nigel Farage's party announced a series of proposals to support pubs last week. They included pledges to cut VAT in the hospitality sector by 10 per cent, cut beer duty by the same fraction. Reform also said it would reverse the recent rise in employers' national insurance contributions (NICs) for the sector and gradually remove business rates for all pubs. The party has said it would fund this package with around 23on, which it plans to secure through reinstating the two-child benefit cap, except for families with two British-born parents. In a lengthy stock exchange filing yesterday, Martin (inset) told industry leaders "there's no question that this initiative would utterly transform the competitiveness of pubs" He said: "By eliminating the tax differential between supermarkets and the hospitality industry, and restoring margins to devastated businesses, these changes would enable pubs to regain some, or all, of their lost trade. "You would think that this offer from Reform would have been greeted by a crescendo of enthusiasm, ecstasy and support from the licensed trade and its supporters. "However, surpris-ingly, initial support has been underwhelming, at least from the great and the good in the hospitality industry" Last month, Labour announced additional business rates support for pubs. The announcement was a U-turn following complaints from pubs about rates changes in November's Budget.

Multimillionaire Brexiter, Tim Martin, urges pubs to back Reform. Just like he urged the country to vote for Brexit. Too bad if it makes you poorer. Too bad for the children he’ll push back into poverty. Tim wants more money. And he couldn’t give a shit about the cost for everybody else.
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Doesn’t match with an Ayling breakfast

I don’t know how many professional brewers migrated to Bluesky, but I have a request for you.

Is your brewery healthy (using any definition that makes sense to you) and even growing? If so, I would love to have a chat. I think we need to remind people you exist. DM/reply/email. Thanks!

BBC B for me first - I was lucky though as we moved from a tape drive to a 5 1/4 inch disc drive. Loved Arcadians

Yes, we enjoyed it. Did the proper Xmas thing of having a jigsaw on the go at the same time

We watched that movie this morning too!

Yes I agree. I really enjoyed it

Yes I didn’t have it last week- did try the double yellow lines which was excellent. Apparently they were not sure they’d added enough ginger - it was all actual raw grated ginger.

Snap. Cheese and beer evening

So true

Good to see you today. Was an excellent day.

I’ll bring you some 🧀 to help your energy levels 😀

I see you’ve been tasing your own wares too. Good to know which one of the beers is that we’re sponsoring 😀

Order went in today 🧀🧀

My company tonight is quiet but very huggable

Evening from Berlin - and yes it is an Italian restaurant!

Spot on. Was pleased to see some of the old faces back together last night though - still some community around. Josh tried to call for more of it too

Probably yes. It’s also that lull between the launch bit and the sessions. Plus it didn’t help that there were no announcements yet

And a) customers had already moved to other cloud products for data / analytics and b) the cloud products provided initially were not as good as the long tail or on prem solutions. Thankfully getting there now

Yes I agree. I think that their big issue was the way they tried to sell it in the first few years - “it’s fast” doesn’t sell to SAP customers (business functionality does), so I think they just switched to focusing more on selling, rather than really doing a great job of re-architecting it.

See you in Berlin.

I do agree with a lot of your comments (don’t get me started on BTP licensing or the technical deficiencies of RISE) - however I would say that they are very good at selling the vision and selling to CFO / CIOs.

Ah - when I saw the picture I thought it was the place near ISBF. Always good food and coffee there

Me too!

I do - and also when Yahoo was an index you could browse through

Yes I think I’d still be quietly mouthing the letters WTF though 😀

I think I’d be using terms a lot stronger than ??? 😆

No and I don’t get how you’d have the two steps in two different warehouses.

Oh, oobee doo.......

I was completely confused by this - I already log in using my email address