Chancellor Rachel Reeves was trying to introduce a special tax on pubs, but she has temporarily backed down due to the backlash from Labour MPs. The strange thing is, why specifically target pubs with this tax increase? Nearly 3,000 pubs have closed in recent years, and it was known that many more would close after the tax increase.
The Chancellor is truly out of touch with reality. She’s never owned a single business in her life. She’s so clueless about how a business runs, how it stays afloat. She walks past a pub, sees the crowd inside, and thinks pub owners are making big money.
For example, she doesn’t know about staff costs, business rates, rents, taxes, or rising food and drink prices. She just thinks pubs are making money and have no expenses.
Our advice to her is to go out one day dressed in different clothes and mingle with the public. She should visit restaurants, supermarkets, butchers, and other small and large businesses. She should listen to people. Let him see how big a problem rising business rates and rents are. Let him see that rising staff costs have become unbearable, leading businesses to constantly lay off employees and hire relatives. That is, if he wants to see it…
Neither Prime Minister Starmer nor the Chancellor knows anything about the market. Having spent their entire lives working for a salary, they lack the ability to understand business owners. Therefore, they have no chance of fixing the economy…