‘Quite opinionated ‘ about hospitality & retail 🤩 Ex Founder & MD of Yummy Pub Co.’ now leading 👉Raw Ambition👈
Joined January 2012
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Tim Foster retweeted
Jan 20
As Reeves jets off to battle shrimp cocktail and sip champagne at Davos, she mustn’t leave hardworking pubs and hospitality businesses in the lurch.
They’ve waited 55 days since her disastrous budget — they shouldn’t have to wait any longer.
It’s time for a U-turn.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01…
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Tim Foster retweeted
Jan 14
✅ 18,000 jobs were created in the hospitality sector in the nine months before the General Election.
❌ Since Labour came to power, 111,000 jobs have been lost...
It’s very sad but not surprise.
Labour have increased the cost of hiring a worker by £1,000.
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Jan 10
The comments in this post illustrate just how the people who don’t run pubs, or involved in anyway, simply don’t understand them.
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Jan 9
This is what blows my mind about hospitality retail, just so lazy & so poor.
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Tim Foster retweeted
What I will never understand is why there isn’t a mechanism in place to remove a government (any government) if they repeatedly & obviously lied to gain power - & do the exact opposite of what got them elected? No business or other section of society would tolerate it. Each day a new betrayal of British people & our way of life. Economic growth & particularly the high st is being ruined. Small businesses are systematically being destroyed
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Tim Foster retweeted
The average publican makes around 12-20p profit per pint.
Pubs are one big tax collection service in the eyes of The Treasury.
It’s time this age old trade is supported instead of being targeted by clueless politicians.
The Government takes TEN times what the publican does.
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Tim Foster retweeted
Hey @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP …
Remember when you posted this all over social media ?… I do.
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Jan 8
licensing, opening hours and wider efforts to reduce red tape
Still utterly clueless
Jan 8
This felt inevitable from day after the budget tbh - and follows big lobbying campaign by pubs industry and real concern among Labour MPs, many of them subsequently barred from their local 👇
theguardian.com/business/202…
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Tim Foster retweeted
Jan 8
Another.
This is now happening every day in every town/city across the UK.
This was a family run business, local produce, local jobs.
@Keir_Starmer how can you sit by and allow your Chancellor to do this?
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26 Nov 2025
Unreal 🤷♂️
26 Nov 2025
OBR welfare costs projection: rising £73bn to £406bn over five years...
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Tim Foster retweeted
26 Nov 2025
OBR welfare costs projection: rising £73bn to £406bn over five years...
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Tim Foster retweeted
26 Nov 2025
What farmers think of @RachelReevesMP budget …….
@agricontract @loosecollie @wheat_daddy @TheFarmingForum
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Tim Foster retweeted
26 Nov 2025
What would you ask Chancellor Rachel Reeves about the Budget?
She will be on #BBCBreakfast on Thursday.
bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy8vz032…
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26 Nov 2025
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26 Nov 2025
Kemi Badenoch launches a devastating full broadside at Rachel Reeves in the wake of the Budget catastrophe.
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Tim Foster retweeted
9 Oct 2025
This is such a poor, false, outdated take on a set of proposals - almost as if noone commenting or writing the article had read them. This is not about removing protections. It is about reducing costs and balancing interests - clearly needed theguardian.com/business/202…
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28 Jul 2025
6,000 lost already….👇 love him or hate him, he sometimes talks sense!
28 Jul 2025
Donald Trump discusses getting rid of the estate {inheritance} tax on family farms in the USA because of the financial and mental health impact on farmers. Keir Starmer awkwardly looks on in silence.
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27 Jul 2025
Time to make these guys accountable for answering questions put to them, not spinning plates as they keep doing;
Q. “Why, why would you even bother to open a new business in this environment as an independent?”
A. “You wouldn’t until things change”
27 Jul 2025
'One of the things that a lot of hospitality venues say to me is that there's too much bureaucracy'
Treasury minister James Murray told #BBCBreakfast about changes to licensing rules to make it easier to open new bars in disused shops, as well as promote outdoor drinking, al fresco dining and live performances
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwye…
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26 Jul 2025
👇 This.
26 Jul 2025
This is what happens when a socialist government doesn’t understand the Laffer Curve
When you hike taxes without understanding basic economics…
Capital gains tax receipts fell to 18% (£12.1bn)
Remind me again, why we have people in office who have never run a business before?
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26 Jul 2025
Or wanting to graft to learn & then start their own thing….this is not just short term failure showing through, this is generational failure
25 Jul 2025
A red flag for the entire economy - a slow down in recruitment for seasonal roles on top of a drop in overall recruitment. Fewer opportunities for young people starting out and gaining valuable experience
thetimes.com/business-money/…
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