Sacha Lord slams "disgusting" comments by Chancellors adviser.
"It'll make your blood boil. Government is no longer hiding it from us."
A must read. The Hospitality sector need to now come together and fight back.
https://t.co/mGqIYOrkDH
What other high street businesses are contributing this level of tax? None. It highlights that hospitality is disproportionately taxed. Wetherspoons may be able to weather the storm due to volume & power purchasing, but smaller outlets can’t. We need urgent hospitality tax reform
What have our high streets ever done to upset Rachel Reeves?
Because her vindictive taxes seem to be most targeted at destroying them.
Labour knew what they were doing - they knew they’d force thousands to close their doors. We need a full business rates U-turn now.
Liverpool’s hospitality sector is at breaking point.
With £48k+ in rate hikes over 3 years - double the national average - and a 20% VAT rate far above European neighbours, jobs and beloved venues are at risk.
We urgently need targeted support, before more doors close for good.
The same people giving me hate for sticking up for hospitality & criticising Labour are the same people that literally complain about the state of our decimated high streets, towns, cities & communities. They literally wrap themselves up in knots defending @UKLabour.
Lays bare the tax cost pressures for many small independent hospitality businesses. This time it’s a pub but it equally applies to independent guesthouse, neighbourhood restaurants and cafes, coffee shops and hotels. Business rates a final straw https://t.co/t9w4NRsijd
The unstoppable @toadmeister perfectly explains the impulse that is driving Labour to clamp down on free speech and the platforms, like this one, which facilitate it. A poisonous mixture of believing themselves always right, they're opponents always malign, and discomfort at robust intellectual exchange (I call this stupidity). A masterful summary: