Blue Collar Business Counsel

Advisory service for SME businesses. For those thinking of starting a business, going full time or looking to scale / improve margins. Specialism in hospitality

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

Judge me....

Try before I supply. See my other two brands attached. Created from nothing into a body of work I am proud of; creating jobs along the way.

Fourth & Fifth @BlkandYlwMK
Bogota Coffee Company @BogotaCoffeeCo

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

@andyjlennox @ChefTomKerridge Plus only available in a handful of counties. A promise to rollout the rest later in the year, lucky for us this govt is not known for changing its mind.

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

@UKHospKate I await the U-turn.

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

@MerrynSW The interview fills me with zero confidence that this Minister knows what she is doing, or even speaking about. Clearly out of her depth trying to defend yet another back door tax.

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

@UKHospKate Makes it even less likely for a VAT reduction.

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

@andyjlennox @wonky_table Where can I get a few of these stickers?

[Sacha Lord @Sacha_Lord]

The UK could lose up to 9000 pubs.

From April, pubs with a rateable value of £100,000, will see business rates jump by £19,000 per year.

They will need to sell an additional:

60,000 pints a year.
Thats 1200 pints a week.
Thats 170 extra pints a day.

Thats before rising energy bills, wages and other costs.

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

@Sacha_Lord And job losses for under 25s may exacerbate mental health issues and push this group onto the benefit system, just when the govt say they want to take a big portion of young people off welfare.

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

Surely the message here, at a time where hospitality venues are closing at a record pace due to out of control costs, is that even a heavy hitter like @BrewDog needs to make changes to continue.

[The Guardian @guardian]

BrewDog faces staff backlash after dropping real living wage pledge
https://t.co/W08OHXizeC

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

@MartinSLewis How does raising NLW by 10% not mean another rise in inflation? All SMEs, across all sectors, will have no choice but to raise prices dramatically to keep up not just with wages but also knock-on price increases from their suppliers who also have to raise to keep up.

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

@OliviaUtley I was just thinking about how my parents never travelled when they were young, and perhaps one reason is they simply couldn't afford to with the level of debt and interest.

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

@UKHospKate Most small family shops fall under the threshold to pay rates, online sales tax has no direct bearing on a shop's bottom line. It's really not difficult, put someone with actual small business experience in shadow minister role or as advisors @labour

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

And businesses having to put up their prices in Feb / March to prepare for huge hike in Living Wage. Who would have thought inflation would jump again, specifically in the hospitality sector?!

[UKHospitality @UKHofficial]

The @ONS statistics made public this morning demonstrate a strong link between the unexpected increase in #inflation and inflated pricing in the hospitality industry,where food and drink costs for businesses have risen by 24%.

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

@UKHospKate Not to mention the record increase in NLW. 2nd quarter for hospitality is going to level a lot of businesses.

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

Just wait for second quarter of 2023...

[Kate Nicholls OBE @UKHospKate]

Closures driven by higher costs - cost of living and cost of doing business squeezing margins and viability despite stable demand

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

@Peston Not having that one little bit. Sturgeon's reaction and lack of nuance and debate in Scotland over Covid was one of the most extreme in Europe.

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

@Jeremy_Hunt You are King Gaslight.

[Andy Lennox @andyjlennox]

VAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sacha Lord @Sacha_Lord]

So that’s now British Gas, SSE and EDF who have all had to admit to failing to pass on the Energy support to 10,000’s small businesses.

@ofgem “we know there’s more to be done”

This is scandalous and needs urgent Govt intervention.

https://t.co/GfhcmM7cgd

[Blue Collar Business Counsel @BlueCounsel]

Predicted during 2022, when will local politicians appreciate the turmoil in their own communities?

@Ben_Everitt
@iainastewart https://t.co/S4Td8M4r3f