JFL fighting for the Great British Pub. Founders of British Pub Week and Save the Great British Pub, founding member of FDFYL and British Pub Confederation.
It seems the giant #pubcos & their lobbyists the BBPA are rattled after the very unconvincing display from #pubco bosses at the @CommonsBEIS evidence session last week! Putting on a lavish event (with free beer for MPs!) with a few handpicked tenants! Not the many unhappy ones!
Brilliant to be with members today in Parliament to showcase and celebrate #PartneredPubs with MPs and publicans from across the country, cheers everyone for coming 🍻
Utterly extraordinary statement from Fiona Dickie @pubscodepca telling @CommonsBEIS people should send her evidence. She dropped the #PCA’s OWN evidence collated by Tom Astley & has failed to act over numerous issues raised by tenants & tenants’s groups. #pubs
Re previous comment by Cllr about large nos of pubs - note that Temperance Movement in 1886 used this to map pubs as "Plague" dots. Today, only a couple of pubs left Aldgate->Whitechapel->Mile End. So where Temperance failed, modern developers annihilated an historic thoroughfare
Anyone who wishes to amplify concern on the demolition of The Albion and subsequent extension, can do so via enquiries@planninginspectorate.gov.uk quoting ref: 20/AP/3339 Southwark Council - or steer to interested pub parties £1.2m freehold
In general reports are that pub-goers behaved responsibly yesterday and were excited and appreciative.
Some amusing anecdotes: the guy who brought his own beer to a pub in Cambridge, and some who asked to go inside as it was cold.
Pubs opening yesterday as Old Justice #Bermondsey gets boarded up. However some progress internally with original wooden panels being numbered for replacement after illegal destruction notice served by @lb_southwark Due to reopen in 2050?@RobbieRinder@JMarkDodds@TheOldJustice
Easter greetings to you all. Week away from getting our pubs back- be it their gardens. As the spring flowers blossom as do our hopes for the public house, it’s realm and their importance to community wellbeing. Cheers 🍺♥️
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The reason there is not a Substantial Meal rule in current road map.
Someone in Hospitality stood up to the unscientific restrictions & won.
ALL future restrictions imposed ,will have to be backed up with evidence!
Small win with HUGE consequences
@Sacha_Lord 👊🏼
Dear @RishiSunak
My name is Lorraine, leaseholder of the Dog Inn pub Ludham, Norfolk Broads. Trade 90% tourism. My rent is £30,000 per year, not average £14-£20k that you quoted on #andrewmarrshow
Please do more research and send the help we all need #nopubnorent#saveourpubs
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Dear @RishiSunak, my name’s (name) & I’m the leaseholder of (pub name) in (place name) & my #rent is (rent) pa. Not the ‘average’ you quoted on the #andrewmarrshow. Please do more research & send the help #hospitality desperately needs!
#NoPubNoRent#saveourpubs
Dear @RishiSunak, my name is Liz Ellis and I am the leaseholder of Elephant and Castle Lewes and my rent is 34k per annum. Not the ‘average’ you quoted on the #andrewmarrshow. Please do more research and send the help #hospitality desperately needs. #NoPubNoRent#saveourpubs
Can’t wait to have the discussion with my angry landlord who thinks I owe him the world that I’ve actually been paying 4x the average rent for 11 years and want a reduction 😂
Dear @RishiSunak My name is Corinne and I am the leaseholder of The Red Lion in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell and my rent is £48k pa and not the average you quoted today on #andrewmarrshow Please do more research and send the help hospitality desperately needs #nopubnorent#saveourpubs