I cannot tell you how happy it makes me to finally see the top trade bodies & industry folk I respect & have been working with, come together and get behind one single ask. Seeing this campaign splattered across social media this morning is wonderful!
https://t.co/eXGXhqqGRc
Hello, Gary Usher here…
The government have proposed an idea to “help” the hospitality industry by allowing longer opening hours.
I feel it’s my duty to explain like others have, how insulting this is. There’s not a single operator I know that wants to open longer. The opposite. We can’t afford to open because costs have risen so much. The impact of NIC hikes among a multitude of other factors have made it impossible to even break even each week & month.
We host a very successful guest chef series here to combat the financial crisis that’s closing so many pubs and restaurants but we are still only just getting by. Many have been banging the drum since the pandemic & now you will all know of places that have closed.
Spread the word please, tell your MP, support your local places (if you can) & help us to save what’s left of the British hospitality sector.
Thanks for reading
We are killing fat people with kindness - this will no doubt enrage the usual mob, but it's absolutely true.
Through society pretending that overweight people have no choice but to be that way, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The vast, vast majority have the power to change it - we should not lie and say otherwise.
A staggeringly small number have a genuine medical condition which does not allow them to lose weight, but an overwhelming percentage of the overweight do not.
People are fat because they eat too much, don't move enough, barely walk anywhere, consume a diet of beige-coloured fried food and are seemingly allergic to real exercise. Yes, society could make it easier for the population to lose weight and keep healthy, but responsibility has to lie with the individual.
It takes motivation and most importantly it takes discipline. Something which is far too often severely lacking...
What an awful example we are setting to the nation's children - being fat is not okay, and we must not pretend that it is.
Being severely overweight is not a disability, and quite frankly it's an insult to those who have genuine life-affecting conditions to suggest that it is.
We should start being honest with people, otherwise it's going to get worse and worse. From an already dire starting point.
I'll expect the usual insults, but this is all true and I suspect even my most fervent critics will secretly agree, despite their howling protests.