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Luke Betts

@luketbetts

Only here to lurk. Rarely tweeting. Promoter, venue owner, talent manager. Find me on LinkedIn instead

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UKHospitality (@ukhofficial) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"You went from a sector that was growing really strongly to one which is starting to really struggle" our CEO Allen Simpson told BBC Breakfast. Over 89,000 hospitality jobs have been lost since the Budget. We need urgent action from Gov't to stop hospitality being #TaxedOut.

UKHospitality (@ukhofficial) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Together, we’ve now sent over 1,300 letters to MPs as part of the #TaxedOut campaign. Tax on hospitality is the highest in the economy. And that is costing jobs. It needs to change. We need to see changes in the Budget. Get involved 👉ukhospitality.org.uk/campaigns/taxe…

Together, we’ve now sent over 1,300 letters to MPs as part of the #TaxedOut campaign.

Tax on hospitality is the highest in the economy. And that is costing jobs. It needs to change. 

We need to see changes in the Budget. Get involved 👉ukhospitality.org.uk/campaigns/taxe…
Emma Lewell MP (@emmalewell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our hospitality industry needs support at the upcoming budget🤞 Lower business rates 📉 A VAT cut ✂️ NICs reduced 📉 UKHospitality ☕️🍻🍲 shieldsgazette.com/news/politics/…

Sacha Lord (@sacha_lord) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is so vague. If you want to help UK businesses, reverse the NI increase and introduce a lower VAT rate for Hospitality.

CPG WIRE (@cpgwire) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Neutonic expanded into a new category with Creatine Sticks. Each stick delivers 5g of Creapure and three flavors are available: 🍍 Pineapple 🍓 Strawberry Lime 🚫 Unflavored

Neutonic expanded into a new category with Creatine Sticks.

Each stick delivers 5g of Creapure and three flavors are available:

🍍 Pineapple
🍓 Strawberry Lime
🚫 Unflavored
Barney Hussey-Yeo (@barney_h_y) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There's a growing chorus of founders, investors, and business leaders calling for change. Labour claims it wants growth. Every policy says otherwise. Wealth taxes. Exit taxes. Capital gains at income rates. This isn't economic policy - it's punishment for success. Britain

There's a growing chorus of founders, investors, and business leaders calling for change.

Labour claims it wants growth. Every policy says otherwise. Wealth taxes. Exit taxes. Capital gains at income rates. This isn't economic policy - it's punishment for success.

Britain
Harry Stebbings (@harrystebbings) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I have invested $200M into the UK in the last five years. If Rachel Reeves implements “Exit Tax” all that funding will go overnight. That is countless jobs, companies and people who will lose out. Rachel, you have managed to steal our hopes, our dreams even our growth,

Kate Nicholls OBE (@ukhospkate) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📉 170K fewer people are on payroll since last Budget ⬇️64K lost in just the last 2 months 📆 13 months of successive falls in employment Hospitality bearing a disproportionate share of this

Sacha Lord (@sacha_lord) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Unemployment now hits 5%. Hospitality being the lions share. The vast majority of those job losses are for young people. I've always argued that a job in hospitality for young people gives a real sense of purpose, of confidence and can help with life skills more than Uni or

Rob Moore (@robprogressive) 's Twitter Profile Photo

But the top 1% of UK taxpayers now pay 33% of all income tax Everyone screaming tax the rich, but let that sink in That’s just 500,000 people contributing £93.8 BILLION in the 2024 tax year A £150k earner pays £53,460 in tax A £25k earner pays £2,486 It takes 21 people

Matt Gubba (@mattgubba) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nobody in government seems to grasp what is coming for British hospitality in 2026. It will be a bloodbath. - Business rates are set to rocket. - Wage costs are rising again. - Energy prices remain brutal. - Alcohol duty has been hiked. And Labour has just stripped away the

Sacha Lord (@sacha_lord) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Chancellor stood up during her Budget speech and said she was helping the British Pub. In fact she introduced a stealth tax costing the British pub £380 million over the next three years. She has called last orders on many pubs across the UK.

Robert Richardson FIH MI (@rbwr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the UK, a pint of beer carries both 20% VAT and around 56p in alcohol duty. In Switzerland, the same pint carries 8.1% VAT and around 13p in alcohol duty. Switzerland treats hospitality as a national economic asset, with the profession enjoying formal recognition and

In the UK, a pint of beer carries both 20% VAT and around 56p in alcohol duty. 

In Switzerland, the same pint carries 8.1% VAT and around 13p in alcohol duty. 

Switzerland treats hospitality as a national economic asset, with the profession enjoying formal recognition and
Kate Nicholls OBE (@ukhospkate) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trade bodies and campaign groups unite to warn ‘eye-watering increases’ in taxes will decimate the hospitality industry telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/3…

Luke Betts (@luketbetts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great to see Wayne Lineker on the TV this morning after the school run Glad his rehab going well. Some interesting ideas on economic growth too

Great to see Wayne Lineker on the TV this morning after the school run 

Glad his rehab going well. Some interesting ideas on economic growth too
Paul Heathcote MBE (@paul_heathcote) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If society wants mid market chains then carry on taxing if you want to retain your local restaurant, pub, bar, coffee shop or quality establishments & venues something needs to change