@Helen_Whately How about a visit to @NailcoteHall with @bhatti_saqib , which I rescued 35 years ago ? The story of the Hall is one you should hear and see and how on Earth the Milburn Report cannot pinpoint the damage Rachel Reeves has done to young people employment is mad 😡
@KevinCraigUK@UKLabour@andyburnham@JohnHealey_MP My family of American immigrant Entrepreneurs have created jobs and grown businesses in the UK for 100 years and I cannot agree with your views at all ! This is the most anti Growth , anti jobs and anti entrepreneurial Government I have ever known in my lifetime ! @iromg
Labour won the biggest majority in decades promising to end the chaos, then spent over two years reverse-ferrying themselves into more chaos - winter fuel cuts for pensioners, employer NI hikes that hammered hiring and stiffled growth, energy and food price rises, financially punishing farmers, the dodgy Chagos deal, welfare “reforms” their own MPs gutted, massive monthly budget deficits, freebies for suits and glasses and appointing Mandelson as US ambassador despite the Epstein connections everyone else had noticed. Starmer couldn’t control his backbenchers, his advisers or the narrative and resigned after local election wipeouts.
Now Burnham’s in charge with the same high tax burden heading for post-war records, ongoing cost of living crisis with the same rocketing food prices, high energy bills and fuel prices (with no cut to fuel duty) and the small boats are still not resolved.
The Labour government’s main talent is for self-inflicted wounds and promising change it can’t deliver. Same party, different face at the top and an even bigger economic black hole.
There is a real pressure building in hospitality of delivering on wages and margins. Many will fold after Christmas. I'm really feeling it and I know I'm not alone.
Slow clap @UKLabour for screwing the private sector over through your inability to govern.
@Sacha_Lord It sounds as though Milburn has avoided the truth we all know in the Hospitality Industry and on our High Streets that @RachelReevesMP Budgets on NI and Pay has made us cut back on employment opportunities 4young people & @JohnHealey_MP did NOTHING about it in his Budget @iromg
Thank you @llinos_medi for questioning the Gov’t on a VAT cut for hospitality.
“Around 5,000 people in Ynys Mon my constituency work in the hospitality sector, it is a vital part of the Welsh economy.”
A VAT cut would deliver vital breathing room for businesses and protect jobs #VATsTheProblem
@leonburton We all know what’s needed now and we know what the benefits will be already so what the hell is the need of a “pilot” when you can already see the rest of Europe @Sacha_Lord@andyburnham ? Just a way of delaying action !! @UKHofficial
@Sacha_Lord I think the Government & @andyburnham & @JohnHealey_MP idea of what constitutes serious help /breathing space for Hospitality. High Street SME’s is sadly detached from the reality of our businesses stress ! Real support is the only way to succeed - VAT in line with Europe! @iromg
Hospitality Voices gears up for fresh MP ban as VAT anger grows
@HospoVoices@wonky_table@andyjlennox
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In Parliament @alisgriffithsmp spoke about concerns businesses in her consistency raised with her.
“They have not been assuaged by the Budget.”
The Government must go further to address the unequal tax burden on the sector to unlock growth and employment opportunities.
104,000 small businesses, gone under @UKLabour
Let that sink in.
Jobs. Suppliers. Money invested. Taxes, rates and VAT for public services. Livelihoods.
Gone.
@Sacha_Lord We know what we can do Sacha but it needs stronger commitment by the @andyburnham than the ludicrously feeble/imaginary “breathing space” that they’re trying 2spin as serious help,which you & I know it’s NOT! Cut VAT all Hospitality now as you asked & it will happen @UKHospKate
Labour’s been the worst govt 4hospitality.@RachelReevesMP promised to back business&jobs,then drove up the cost of hiring&trading.Stop redefining ‘working people’ to justify tax rises.Change course&back the businesses that create jobs&grow the economy.@andyburnham@JohnHealey_MP
@leonburton We all know what’s needed now and we know what the benefits will be already so what the hell is the need of a “pilot” when you can already see the rest of Europe @Sacha_Lord@andyburnham ? Just a way of delaying action !! @UKHofficial
Listening to Treasury Secretary James Murray talking to LBC'S Nick Ferrari, he referred to a 'breathing space.' We've had one for 2 years 8 months. He told Nick in takes a long time to evolve a 10-year plan. In the name of all that is wise & wonderful the Government MUST act now! It's a crisis! Cut welfare, stimulate business & commerce. Its not rocket science. @LBC@NickFerrariLBC