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Our pubs need help & the government could kill thousands of businesses after COVID-19 – a thread of my work @goodbeerhunting.
Please please RT! And take note @scullyp & @ed_milliband.
Please please RT! And take note @scullyp & @ed_milliband.
Starting with the fact that pubs have no confirmation of when they can open or at what social distance. For most of them, the possible date (4th July) doesn’t give them time to prepare or any clarity on the 2m or 1m. /2 https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/6/17/fate-of-uk-pubs-left-to-government-uncertainty-lack-of-guidance
Then let’s think about the MADNESS of the costs if the 2m is reduced last minute. The pubs become more practical, but studies show attendance could drop. It would also cost thousands in reprinting signs and advice, millions in wasted perspex, and so much time in planning. /3
Then let’s look at the fact that many of these pubs are £10,000s or even £100,000s in debt because ruthless pub cos are still charging full rent. /4 https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/4/3/uk-pub-companies-seek-rent-during-covid-19-pandemic
Then put that in the context of how nearly half of all British pubs have been flipped to foreign investors with questionable interest in their heritage and social importance. /5 https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/2019/8/23/brexit-is-flipping-britains-beer-and-pubs-for-foreign-real-estate-speculation
Let’s look at how brexit has harmed UK breweries, pubs and farmers alike and suppressed the Pound to make them cheaper investments for foreign firms. /6 https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/2019/9/10/youre-kind-of-fucked-from-every-angle-how-brexit-is-hurting-british-craft-brewers-before-it-even-happens
And FINALLY let’s remember the apparent corruption that has ruined hundreds of business and people’s lives, all enabled by the government’s toothless PCA. /7 https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/2019/12/9/years-of-lying-to-pub-tenants-could-cost-marstons-millions
What can we do?
Support our locals, write to our MPs, and push the government to give a firm time, date and distance to ALL hospitality sectors NOW.
Not tonight, not tomorrow, not this week. Now.
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Support our locals, write to our MPs, and push the government to give a firm time, date and distance to ALL hospitality sectors NOW.
Not tonight, not tomorrow, not this week. Now.
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