Hotelier at NailcoteHall Hall for over 31 years - Developed one of the World’s top Par 3 Golf Courses - And budding Songwriter and Author too !
Dorridge ,Solihull ,West Mids
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Only 1 day left4 @JohnHealey_MP & @andyburnham 2decide if they’re going 2back our Hospitality/Tourism sector with a serious VAT cut in line with the rest of Europe? We can’t invest,grow & regenerate young people job’s without it! @iromg
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@JohnHealey_MP must be happy with pushing inflation & the cost of living higher and making sure there is more unemployment too ! @iromg
@jreynoldsMP Can you get behind businesses and stop destroying them and employment ? @iromg
What people don't realise (and presumably @andyburnham @JohnHealey_MP), is that if the minimum wage does rise to £13.20 - that actually costs the employer somewhere between £16.90–£17 per hour. That's just not possible right now. Hospitality will be destroyed.
I have a feeling that the night time area will get something for Sacha and the Govt succeeds at splitting up Hospitality’s cohesion as ONE complete Industry in the process ? Hope I am wrong !
@JohnHealey_MP must be happy with pushing inflation & the cost of living higher and making sure there is more unemployment too ! @iromg
Only 1 day left4 @JohnHealey_MP & @andyburnham 2decide if they’re going 2back our Hospitality/Tourism sector with a serious VAT cut in line with the rest of Europe? We can’t invest,grow & regenerate young people job’s without it! @iromg
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Man United’s real problem is actually their Owners and the Jim Ratcliffe crew who want to show that they know how to run a top FC - but seem in control of a FC up !!
rick cressman retweeted
Excellent pre Busdget read jam packed with stats for the Chancellor and govt ministers to mull over. Two stand out for me - first the big drop on consumer confidence in October underlining fragility and second the 117,000 drop on payrolled
Jobs in retail & hospitality - the most highly taxed sectors of economy. Both underline that “do no harm” will not be enough and targeted incentives to reduce cost of doing business will be needed to
Reverse NEETs crisis and driver growth in every postcode
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@andyburnham How can this be encouraging people to create and grow businesses and jobs in the future ? @edballs @piersmorgan @iromg @NickFerrariLBC @CamillaTominey @bbclaurak
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And the big shots are stupid - it really is a TEAM game ! That is what Sir Alf Ramsey proved in his ‘66 World Cup win too ! It isn’t just about the “best” players it is the way they blend together - remember Ron Saunders team he built at Villa too - he demanded a lot like Unai !
rick cressman retweeted
If hospitality doesn't get its much needed VAT cut next week, I fail to see when we would. @andyburnham is at his strongest. Finding the short term cash for a cut would require decisions elsewhere, and if he can't make them now - he never will. This really is last chance saloon.
rick cressman retweeted
There’s no such thing as “business-friendly socialism”.
Socialism is innately hostile to business and the people who create, operate and own businesses.
That is why socialism has a 100% track record of impoverishing every country where it has ever been tried.
They are first steps, but in the budget Burnham and Healey are going to try to signal their distinct direction of travel. A bold budget this week will deliver the business-friendly socialism Britain badly needs
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Another Tax to damage Hospitality in the UK and add to the ‘cost of living’ crisis & unemployment by venues & resorts here at home while he aims to cut airline ticketing prices for people travelling abroad !! You could not make this up could you ? @iromg @allen_m_simpson @GBNEWS
30% of my Electricity bills are CCL & Standing Charges and Electricity amounts to £125,000 pa while Gas Contract is £30,000 pa so how does it make sense not to be attacking the cost of Electricity ?
rick cressman retweeted
Of course we want to deliver the 100,000 jobs @UKHofficial has pledged. Of course we can.
But hospitality had already lost an estimated 100,000 jobs following Labour’s October 2024 Budget. We’d be rebuilding employment we’ve already lost.
If this Labour government thinks for one second that hospitality has the money sitting around to fund another 100,000 jobs without cutting VAT, it’s got another thing coming.
Businesses are fighting to pay the staff they’ve still got. A press release doesn’t pay wages.
I understand showing willing. We want to give young people opportunities. But UKHospitality’s response should have been clear:
“Yes, we’ll deliver 100,000 jobs. Cut VAT in line with Europe and give us the means to do it.”
You cannot keep taxing employment out of existence then expect applause for asking us to create it again.
#Hospitality #VatinlinewithEurope