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You are hospitality killers @AJogee @AllisonCGardner @gareth_snell @david4lcs @Kate_Dearden @Dan4Barnet @jamesmurray_ldn @TorstenBell. Shame on you. You are ignorant, arrogant & killing what’s left of our great industry. Economic suicide.

"We would be pretty much unique in having both VAT at 20% and a potential 5% holiday tax." Our high rate of VAT means that visiting the UK is already expensive compared to Europe. A holiday tax makes that worse, Our Chief Executive @allen_m_simpson, tells Times Radio.

“Six hospitality venues are closing every single day.” Thank you @JeromeMayhew for raising the scale of business closures in the sector this year. We need a hospitality-wide solution on business rates to prevent closures escalating further.

With hospitality costs set to increase once again this week, our latest member survey reveals that one in five venues face closure in the next year. Read more in the @guardian about the impact cost increases are having on our sector 👇 theguardian.com/business/2026/…

Every single time Ed Miliband goes on the TV, his ludicrous, entirely dishonest, gaslighting arguments are effortlessly dismantled. It doesn't matter what the subject is. Fuel costs Energy prices Net Zero *Nothing* he says is based in reality. The man is a dangerous liar.

#cutvat @RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer

I suggest you speak to your team @RachelReevesMP … an emergency cut in VAT is the ONLY lever you have to save thousands of Hospitality businesses folding. Much of Europe has VAT rates 10-13% to support their Hospitality industry. A cut in VAT has been used and worked before.

To all @UKLabour @RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer all affected #Hospitality businesses MUST be included in this U-turn, not just pubs and to clarify, this wouldn’t be deemed as “tax cut or support”, you got your numbers wrong - own it - you tried to put up taxes on a Industry already on it knees. “Support” is in the form of a #VatCut in line with Europe. There they Value their Hospitality and see it for what it is the engine of the economy #TaxedOut #NoLabourMPs #ItsnotoveruntiltheVatladysigns IF rate relief is not applied to all affected Hospitality this is only going to get bigger and we will push the little red button on further planned industrial action. #March #Protest #BeerBarrels #IndustrialAction

"We do need a solution for everybody." The business rates hikes hitting hospitality affects every part of the sector - pubs, hotels, restaurants, and cafes, to name a few. We need a hospitality-wide solution to this problem. @allen_m_simpson, our CEO, spoke to @itvnews.

@UKHospKate Not just pubs, all small businesses 😡

@leonburton The government simply aren't listening and ignoring the huge amount of closures and job losses. The farmers protests in Central London was clearly affective. Surely the UK hospitality industry need to organise something similar within the next few weeks, no point in a years time.

Just stop, Kate. They clearly publicly protested, your post is misleading. Your approach of the Government love in hasn’t worked & isn’t working. Being in the room isn’t getting you results. I find this post offensive to those of us finally speaking out.

"It's a pub destroyer. Pubs can't survive these kinds of increases. It's not viable. Most pubs are just about scraping by anyway. If you add these massive increases your profit margins are wiped out. We struggle as it is." "We're sort of in the average area at 157%, but we've got a lot of local pubs that are increasing by 600% & another one by 800%. You can't have that kind of increase & expect businesses to succeed, said Mark Ambrose of the Barking Cat Ale House in Poole. Neil Duncan-Jordan, Poole's first ever Labour MP, says he is prepared to vote against the tax rise. Could there be a backbench rebellion against pub destroyer Rachel?

@UKHofficial @sarahjolney1 "Very strong future for our hospitality industry under labour" is an absolute joke, the will be no industry left this time next year

“UKHospitality estimates that the average increase for hospitality businesses will be 76% over the next three years” Thank you to @sarahjolney1, Lib Dem Business spokesperson, for calling on the Government to bring down business rates and support small businesses.

@UKHofficial @UKHospKate @BBCBreakfast Zero help for hospitality, unbelievable with the amount of closures. They just done care about the industry

"You can't possibly balance the nation's books on the backs of the small hospitality businesses that are already paying 75% of their profits in tax." @UKHospKate told @BBCBreakfast this morning what changes we need to see in the Budget today. #TaxedOut

Not just our pubs but also neighbourhood restaurants, independent hotels and mucus venues. The driven by the costs of doing business outstripping demand or undermining investment - it has to change

Very worrying the number of independent businesses reporting the same thing this week - small businesses in particular taken by surprise and only now realising the full impact of payroll increases. We need urgent reappraisal

New name, same fun evening! Compliments to the mixologist 🍸 #Asiad @CosyCornerL

NEW on blog... I must admit, I had given up hope of finding an accomplished pan-Asian restaurant in the area. And then @Food_A4thought took me to Asiad. And it was superb. This is somewhere to cherish, and to make a beeline for. theplatelickedclean.co.uk/asiad-porthcaw…

@gourmetgorro So glad you enjoyed Ed , thanks for the lovely review. We hope to see you both again soon

New on the blog - @CosyCornerL Lounge in Porthcawl might sound like a close relative of Cosy Club or Juno Lounge, but in fact it's a cracker of an independent restaurant and bar. gourmetgorro.blogspot.com/2024/04/cosy-c…