Danny Clare

@pub_that @Kate_Dearden Silence! 🙉

@Kate_Dearden Help deliver this how Kate? Because as far as I’m aware it’s businesses covering the cost while Gov benefit from the extra taxes. Please feel free to let us know what precisely you are doing to help BUSINESSES deliver this. Particularly in hospitality?

Today, 2.7 million workers are getting a pay rise. Increases to the National Minimum and Living Wages mean full-time workers could earn up to £1,500 more this year. As Minister for Employment Rights, I’m proud to help deliver this ➡️ boosting pay and helping with living costs

Front page and this injustice is escalating across all media. The Chancellors stealth tax could result in up to 30,000 Hospitality closures. The Gov’t urgently need to review Business Rates.

Business rates are about to devastate the UK hospitality sector in 2026. Take The Squirrels Inn in Northampton: its rateable value jumps from £22k to £86k in one go. Under the current 40% hospitality relief, that pub pays roughly £6.5k a year. From 2026, the bill rises towards £33k+, a near 400% increase for a village pub just to exist. The government’s own examples show a “typical” pub facing a 66% rates hike once the 40% relief is cut and new multipliers apply. That’s the mild end. Analysts have found big-city hotels with rateable values rising 385%. Once those lose relief and hit the new high-value “super multiplier”, a hotel paying £150k today could face £1.1 million in 2026; a 600%+ increase on one P&L line. Add wage rises, higher alcohol duty and soaring energy costs, and this isn’t reform; it’s a demolition charge under pubs, bars and hotels. The result: - More boarded-up locals - Fewer independents, more corporate chains - Higher prices for every pint, meal and room - Owners quietly closing or moving capital abroad If the government wants thriving high streets, tourism and night-time economies, it cannot keep treating hospitality like a bottomless cash machine. You don’t save British pubs by taxing them to death.

Just looking at rateable value changes on the widget. Real life examples: An Amazon warehouse - 6.4% increase A hotel near London - 41% increase A pub in Northampton - a 291% increase. So much for rebalancing from online to community businesses. @UKHofficial @beerandpub @BIIandBIIAB

The most ridiculous end to the most ridiculous season you can ever imagine. The final kick, of the final game, 40 years since the Fire, in Bradford's Year of Culture. 90+7. BRADFORD CITY. PROMOTED. WE FUCKING DID IT!!!!!! ❤️💛 #bcafc

Graham Alexander. The manager that led Bradford City to their first automatic promotion in 26 years #bcafc @BBCWYS

Stephen Darby Baby! ❤️💛 #BCAFC

Alexander the Great. 🐐 #BCAFC

@BBCWYS Predicting the future? 🤯😂

🟰 It's always a tight affair between Bradford City and AFC Wimbledon. 😯 It's been five draws and two City wins in their last seven league meets, Bradford haven’t conceded a goal in their last three trips to the Dons. ❓ #BCAFC fans, how will this one go today? #BBCFootball

@benstubbs @EdthePubMan Hi Ed, I would love to talk about this on the podcast with you; we were a “standard” neighbourhood bar prior to the pandemic, but have since become an award-winning table service/European style venue post-Covid and never looked back!

@EdthePubMan @twothirdsdan

I'm also looking for any pubs that can talk about the change from bar to table service following the pandemic for the #lockin #podcast , and how that transition has gone and is going?

A teary read & a wonderful tribute. @Jason_Mckeown your writing is so consistently excellent, even when covering the difficult topics 👏

@MerlinFDC4 WhatsApp is great, but we’re big advocates of not disturbing those who aren’t working that day, so tend to revert to using Deputy (which we use for rotas etc) meaning it’s less intrusive. Comms v. Important, but hard to perfect when everyone passes like ships in the night!

#hospitality friends, am I right in thinking we mostly use private WhatsApp groups for staff messaging and essential updates?

@GaryUsher_ @pub_that Cheers, Chef. Loving your work, give us a shout @twothirdsbeerco if you’re ever lucky enough to be in sunny Sheffield 🍻

@twothirdsdan @pub_that This is a great response & approach

How are we all planning on covering the increased wage costs in April hospitality folk…I’ve worked out it will cost us an extra 15-20k per year per pub…if you answer other please comment so we can all get some ideas.

@pub_that Exactly this - remove as many “barriers” to entry as poss. 80% of the battle is “getting ‘em in” People visit us for a good time, not to hear about our woes, so I think the positivity is important too. Not naivety, mind 😉.

@twothirdsdan Yeah increasing footfall is a big one. Need to be busier but putting prices up can affect that so the offer has to be outstanding.

@pub_that Sadly not a prayer for us hospo folk; truth is imho there are so many other issues and vote winners further up the bus, as opposed to cutting tax on alcohol etc. Shame as it feels like it could be a brilliant “lever” for economic growth.

When I first started talking about a VAT cut, many influential people weren’t backing it as they said it was totally off the table as far as the treasury was concerned. The fact that a lot of those people are now being very vocal about it gives me hope. Is Hunt brave enough?

@NickSimmonite @benstubbs Think we’ve got even the slightest chance of a mention in the budget? I hope so, but truly doubtful if I’m honest; a lot of other causes and many worthy cases ahead of us.

#Sheffield - without pubs, bars, and clubs - we wouldn’t have OUR music. We wouldn’t have met our soulmates - or felt part of ‘something’. Tap your MP up, and tell ’em they need to get their finger out. Reduce the VAT on your pint #LeaveNoOneBehind ntia.co.uk/find-your-mp-r…

Hospitality demands VAT cut as National Living Wage hike looms Full story ⬇️ trib.al/f8BqgJ9

If you value your local pub, independent restaurant, favourite cafe, last remaining nightclub in your town, or just hospitality in general please SIGN this. Thousands of small hospitality businesses are close to breaking. A VAT cut is now essential. change.org/p/lower-vat-to…