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Restaurant Owner

Joined November 2009
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104,000 small businesses, gone under @UKLabour Let that sink in. Jobs. Suppliers. Money invested. Taxes, rates and VAT for public services. Livelihoods. Gone.
The economic wrecking ball of the Labour government did this. They have absolutely hammered small and medium sized businesses.
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Chris Fox retweeted
Amazing summit with some really great conversations in the room on how to push forward. We hope the next couple of months will bring real change. We shall see @HospoVoices #Hospitality #VatCut
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Awful. Another business gone and more jobs lost thanks to Rachel Reeves' Jobs Tax, endless red tape and regulations. It's all piled on the pressure. Labour have no idea how much damage they've done to business because so few of them have proper private sector experience.
Polly Tearooms in Marlborough closes after 114 years. For the same reasons that all businesses are struggling: NI rise, minimum wage, taxes, regulations. Our rulers can’t begin to imagine what it’s like to run a small enterprise within tight profit margins.
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Polly Tearooms in Marlborough closes after 114 years. For the same reasons that all businesses are struggling: NI rise, minimum wage, taxes, regulations. Our rulers can’t begin to imagine what it’s like to run a small enterprise within tight profit margins.
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Chris Fox retweeted
Since falling 2-0 behind after 27 minutes against Watford on Oct 31, Norwich City have scored 12 without reply, taken all nine points, and the pressure is (rightly) off Philippe Clement (tbf slightly lifted with win at Charlton pre-Watford after 5 straight Championship defeats). Paris Maghoma flying, 4 goals in 4 (after 0 in 8), started the 5-0 rout of Bristol City today, decent return for only a reported £800k fee from Brentford last January. #OTBC
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I think we can safely say Rachel Reeves is the only person who thinks her big increase in employment taxes made 'the economy stronger'. Everyone else thinks it destroyed jobs on a massive scale.
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All this bullshit of “we might get a VAT cut in the spring”. Oh do fuck off. There’ll be some other drama. Some excuse. Some bullshit. If you can’t make tough decisions where they need to be made i.e. a proper budget, you won’t suddenly find billions down the sofa in a spring statement. We are being conned. Piss off.
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Chris Fox retweeted
Now rebranded Conference for Future Hospitality ‘Not Workers’…
Spending the day prepping my speech for tomorrows largest conference for future Hospitality Leaders delivered by The Institute of Hospitality @IoH_Online in London. Yes, its been a disappointing week for Hospitality, but I strongly believe we are the best sector to help get young people into work. When my sons old enough, I'll be encouraging him to get a part time job to help him through college, as it's the best way to learn life skills, that can't be taught sat behind a desk.
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What an extraordinary statement. Apparently, according to Labour, employers aren't working people. Tell that to the small business owners working 60-hour weeks, risking their savings, paying their staff and keeping their businesses afloat. Labour can play with definitions and indulge in endless whataboutery, but it cannot escape the consequences of its decisions. Taxing employers affects jobs, wages and the very people Labour claims to protect.
'I don't think employers are working people.' @CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604
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1/ When a Treasury Minister explicitly states, "I don't think employers are working people," it isn't a careless gaffe. It is a mask-slip. It reveals a deeply entrenched, 19th-century ideological rot at the heart of modern governance. Let’s break down why this is so dangerous. 🧵
'I don't think employers are working people.' @CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604
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'I don't think employers are working people.' This irrational contempt for small business owners who put everything on the line to create new wealth & jobs in our local communities is so damaging for the country.
'I don't think employers are working people.' @CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604
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Chris Fox retweeted
The veil slips. ‘I don’t think employers are working people’ - did she really just say that?!? The other person in history that thought that was Stalin.
'I don't think employers are working people.' @CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604
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Hilarious, if it wasn’t so serious. One of Burnham’s Labour MP’s demanding a private company must engage with her to save jobs, which her government has destroyed. The devastation of Britain under a socialist regime.
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Chris Fox retweeted
Replying to @JohnHealey_MP
@JohnHealey_MP The plot thickens. This is in fact a lie. Rates have been cut, but not as much as they were put up by @UKLabour already. #Hospitality @greeneking you should be ashamed of yourselves and I will never drink a pint in your venues whilst you contoune to support this shambolic government.
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Turns out the Labour government is baffled by the fact that Poundland, a company that sells high volume goods at rock bottom prices with very thin margins, might go bankrupt after they’ve continually increased their labour costs That’s astoundingly cretinous
🚨NEW: Business Secretary Jonathon Reynolds' team has written to the owner of Poundland to "establish the latest situation" amid concerns the retailer could soon collapse into administration 12,000 jobs are at risk
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Were you listening to a different budget to me. I heard very little for day to small businesses. And small amount of rate relief against a huge increase Labour oversaw in April - and EVERY other cost line UP! It was just a massive word salad of disappointmen! 🤡
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Heartbreaking on two levels: 1. Small business owners dejected and may give up 2. Entrepreneurs won't bother starting So many chains weighing down those who actually want to take risk and try and build something. Success and ambition is being destroyed.
Maybe its just me, but running a small business has never - certainly not in my lifetime - been as difficult as it is right now and I'm struggling to find reasons to carry it on. Its certainly not for the work life balance, or for the money. Its not for an easy life, or to relieve avoid stress. So what is it for? To keep other people employed? To keep paying ever more tax? Its been 25 years, and I think I'm done.
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