27/10/2026
📢 TOMORROW IS THE BUDGET: IT’S TIME TO SAVE OUR PUBS, CLUBS & VENUES! 🍻🇬🇧👇
Tomorrow, the Chancellor delivers the Budget. We are sending an urgent message to the Government: back our hospitality sector before it is too late. ⏳🛑
Our pubs, bars, and clubs are not just businesses—they are the beating heart of British high streets and local communities. ❤️🏢 But we cannot survive on goodwill alone. 📉💔
Here is what we urgently need to see announced tomorrow: 👇👇👇
1️⃣ Cut VAT on Hospitality 📉💸
The UK is an outlier: At 20%, UK hospitality pays one of the highest VAT rates in Western Europe. 🇬🇧⚖️🇪🇺
Across the continent, European governments use reduced rates to protect local venues:
France and Spain charge 10% 🇫🇷🇪🇸, Germany charges 7% on accommodation 🇩🇪, and the European average sits around 10-12%. 📊🏨
Cutting UK hospitality VAT would instantly protect cash flow, save community spaces, and allow venues to invest in their teams! 💰🌱
2️⃣ Minimum Unit Pricing on Supermarket Alcohol 🛒🛑🍻
Supermarkets use cheap alcohol as loss-leaders, making off-trade alcohol drastically cheaper than a regulated pint at a local bar. 🏬📈
Introducing a UK-wide minimum unit price levels the playing field, stops deep-discount off-sales from gutting community venues, and promotes safer, supervised drinking environments in licensed pubs! ⚖️🤝
3️⃣ Protect 3.5+ Million UK Jobs 👥💼🇬🇧
Hospitality is the 3rd largest employer in the UK, sustaining over 3.5 million jobs and generating nearly £100 billion for the economy! 📈🔨
We provide vital first jobs, career apprenticeships, and flexible work in every town and village across the nation.
🏘️🎒 Every venue that closes takes livelihoods with it. 💔🚪
4️⃣ Relief from Soaring Operating Costs ⚡🔥📈
Venues are battling compound pressures: energy bills at record highs 🔌💸, rising wholesale stock 📦📈, wage pressures 👥💰, and steep b**r duty 🍺🧾.
Hundreds of pubs have closed permanently this year alone. 🚪🥀
Without targeted tax relief and business rate protections, hundreds more will be forced to shut their doors for good. 📉🚫
5️⃣ More Than a Drink: Fighting Loneliness & Boosting Mental Health 🗣️❤️💬
Pubs and social clubs are proven community hubs that fight social isolation and loneliness across all age groups! 🫶🤝
A friendly chat at the local bar or attending a community club night is often a vital lifeline for residents living alone. 💬🌟
When a local pub closes, an essential social support system vanishes. 🚪💔
To our leaders in Westminster: Listen to the trade, back British hospitality, and give our community spaces a fighting chance tomorrow! 🗳️✊🇬🇧
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