Guardian reporting that Rachel Reeves will unveil a support package worth about £100m annually for pubs, after being warned of widespread closures and job losses after the announcement of controversial changes to business rates.
Government officials admitted that they had not foreseen the total financial impact of the rates shake-up in England and Wales announced in the budget in late November.
Apparently the package is limited to pubs, with the wider hospitality sector stuck with higher business rates. Restaurants will not benefit, and holiday let accommodation owners council tax’s have also been doubled. |
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"Is there something special about pubs?
Surely people get everything on line nowadays?"
I wondered that too. Why just pubs ? What about other elements of the hospitality sector as well ?
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And yes, since Covid and lockdowns, it became a necessity to order everything online, and I've not gone back to bricks and mortar shopping since. I can't remember the last time I went to a pub either. Socialising has moved from pubs to friends houses, and we mostly drink coffee and chat about politics / work.
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AI says as of December 2024, the number of pubs in England and Wales fell below 39,000 for the first time since records began, reaching 38,989. Due to rising costs and closures, this represents a 6.7% increase in the rate of closures compared to 2023, with over 34 pubs closing per month.
Reeves business rates has increased the rate of closures.
If there are 39,000 pubs then £100M gives them £2564 each, about £7 a day. |
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"Pubs have always been places of freedom and democracy so of course this Govt hates them. "
And those that work in them
AI says - Based on 2024–2025 data, the pub and bar sector in the UK supports approximately 489,000 to 495,000 direct employees. Including the wider supply chain, the industry supports over 1 million jobs |
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"Pubs have always been places of freedom and democracy so of course this Govt hates them.
And those that work in them
AI says - Based on 2024–2025 data, the pub and bar sector in the UK supports approximately 489,000 to 495,000 direct employees. Including the wider supply chain, the industry supports over 1 million jobs"
If you're not a public sector worker you've got no chance with Labour.  |
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"Pubs have always been places of freedom and democracy so of course this Govt hates them.
And those that work in them
AI says - Based on 2024–2025 data, the pub and bar sector in the UK supports approximately 489,000 to 495,000 direct employees. Including the wider supply chain, the industry supports over 1 million jobs
If you're not a public sector worker you've got no chance with Labour. "
It must work out cheaper to keep the jobs and collect the NI and tax than put up costs and force more to close. |
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By *ony 2016Man 14 weeks ago
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One of the main problems with pub closures is people not going to the pub ,, I went yesterday on my own for a carvery , a large pub with a total of 6 people in , told my friend this tonight he said how cheap the cans were he is sat at home drinking tonight ,, it the same when people don't use banks then complain the local branch has closed ,, or those moaning about the lack of shops on the high street but are sat at home waiting for an on line delivery ,, |
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I think there is also a generational change.
In the 80's, as a teenager, a shopping event was mother, father, my cousin and me. Father would drive to Southend and we'd spend a whole day, "mooching". Keddies department store was a favourite.
There would be ice-creams on the seafront.
Fish and chips for the adults. I was taken to McDonalds for my lunch, as I don't like fish, and MCD's was exciting and new. (Always full of teenagers like me, and grumbling parents saying "What is this crap?" whilst they sipped a coffee.
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Whilst I do have fond memories of those days, I do kind of look back on them now and think, "We wasted a whole day mooching, to buy over-priced crap. Whilst memories are precious, I feel the pragmatics of modern living are where we are living now."
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