My daughters restaurant has had over 300 cancellations in the last 2 days, gone from breaking even to a loss. Boris Johnson Rishi Sunak hospitality and the supply chain need help, this is deja vue March 2020 😡😥

The various UK Governments are throwing #hospitality under a bus again, introducing restrictions & telling people not to socialise, ruining the vitally important December/Christmas trade for #pubs, restaurants & clubs & without support. Disgraceful. Destroying livelihoods. 🤬

Is there a Chancellor in the House..? With Government announcements/restrictions/advice #pubs all over the UK are seeing vital December trade flatlining & Christmas bookings decimated. Pubs, livelihoods, jobs are at risk Proper support is needed NOW Rishi Sunak #SupportOurPubs

Nick: "Does social distancing mean every pub, or just certain size of pubs automatically run at a loss?" Publican Dave Mountford believes social distancing is a problem and that "a great majority of pubs" have been running at a loss for a while. Nick de Bois CBE | Dave Mountford

Hearing that Heineken are raising their wholesale prices by a whopping 7%. On top of that, publicans are dealing with a doubling of utility costs, rising wages and higher NI. At the same time trade is down. Big challenge to even break even.

'The industry was already in crisis before Covid hit' Forum of British Pubs Campaign Manager Dave Mountford tells Stephen Dixon and Anne Diamond why he's requesting that customers don't have a 'dry January'. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 515, Virgin 626.

And of course Gary, every time a rent is reviewed the pubco try’s to put it up

This response by Tory minister Michael Ellis (from *yesterday*) has aged well 🙂

I called for Boris Johnson to resign in Parliament yesterday, following revelations about the Downing Street Party. The Tory minister, Michael Ellis, told me I was making "unsubstantiated accusations that are devoid of evidence". Do you have enough evidence now, Michael?

Lizz truss should resign. Talk about pissing our money away. Imagine how many lives that money could have helped. Absolute joke!

They broke the law and then lied to cover their tracks. Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak must resign.

Off you fuck.

The week in Tory MPs so far: one convicted of molesting a minor, another having to apologise for defending said paedophile, PM and chancellor convicted of breaking the COVID laws they wrote. And it’s only Fucking Tuesday.

Lying does tend to catch up with you in the end.

It’s not the party for me ! It’s the denial , the team members he’s made resign or step down and the continual lies even to this day. You can add slippery Sunak to that as well!

Word of the day is 'maw-worm' (19th century): one who insists that they have done nothing wrong, despite evidence to the contrary.

We’ve been warning of the threat to #pubs consistently & it’s time Government listened & acted. We need: ▪️A cap on business energy bills ▪️An overhaul of #businessrates ▪️Lower VAT for all pub sales ▪️A #PubsCode that actually works ▪️Planning protection for pubs #SupportOurPubs

This isn't Conservative MPs suddenly realising the person they made Prime Minister is an amoral, lying, arrogant, nasty piece of work. It's Conservative MPs realising that their own political careers are at risk unless they abandon him. It's naked self-interest, nothing more.

Boris is having a really shitty last day at work.

Hugh Grant tweeted a request at activists protesting outside Westminster to play the Benny Hill theme on their loudspeakers; when they did it became the soundtrack for street interviews with leading Tories trying explain the situation to the British people