Opening pubs without selling alcohol is not “reopening” pubs at all. Selling alcohol in a safe environment is at the core of what we do. Despite our business model being stripped bare, the very core of what we do is now under attack. This has to stop.
If media reports are correct the new tiering system is disastrous for
#Pubs
- especially our wet-led community Pubs. Our sector has been hung out to dry, the Gov must compensate Pubs for their lost trade or lose the great British Pub forever.
Our trade has been decimated by the Gov announcements this week with over 3.2m cancellations. We are urgently asking the Treasury for a support package to see the sector through the winter. But please do support your local Pub and Brewer this Christmas 🍻🎄
The pub is being singled out for exceptionally harsh and unjustified treatment and unless the Government changes course, huge portions of them will simply be gone forever.
We wrote this letter to
@BorisJohnson
so he is clear this damage will be on his hands 👇
Very proud day yesterday receiving my OBE for services to Hospitality from the King 👑 Even more special to get to share this special day with my family at Windsor Castle. Truly grateful 🙏🏻 My passion to support our brilliant brewers & pubs continues🍻
#Road2Recovery
starts here.
👩🏫 All pupils back to school by 8 March
🍻 Hospitality venues open by Easter
❌ No legislative restrictions after 1 May
💉 Vaccine must mean permanent immunity from lockdowns & restrictions
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Let’s reclaim our lives once & for all 🇬🇧
Cheers to the Chancellor for a package of support for our Pubs & Brewers worth £440 million! Great to see
@RishiSunak
listen to
@LongLiveLocals
and deliver beer duty freeze. Draught duty cut for pubs welcome too and Business Rates measures worth £200 million.
Long Live The Local!
It has been an honour to serve the people of the East Midlands for 10 years. These were the elections no one wanted. The people’s frustration with Brexit is clear. We must listen to those who feel unheard. And we must deliver.
It’s outrageous you can have a pint in a theatre, concert hall, cinema or sports ground without a substantial meal, but not the pub. It is a slap in the face of pubs and brewers.
Positive reports in
@theTimes
today suggesting Government may scrap the substantial meal rule when pubs reopen. We have been very outspoken about the damage of the rule on wet led pubs in particular & will continue to make the case for its removal when our pubs can reopen.
87m pints poured away is £331m in lost revenue to our sector.
@RishiSunak
& Gov have a responsibility to support our sector both through lockdown & beyond when it reopens. Vat Cut, Beer Duty Cut and Business Rates Holiday extension critical to recovery
My time as an MEP has come to a close. It has been an honour & privilege to represent my constituents & country for the last 10 years. Thank you to all those who have supported me on this journey. Excited for the next chapter ✨
Truly delighted to receive an honour in this Jubilee year. I am lucky to work with so many passionate people in this industry and a fantastic team at the BBPA. This is their recognition too. Double celebrations this weekend 🍻🇬🇧
We are extremely proud to say our Chief Executive
@EmmaMcClarkin
has been awarded an OBE.
She said: "I am delighted and humbled to receive this honour. It is truly wonderful to receive this recognition on behalf of the beer and pub sector."
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This is a de facto lockdown for our sector. We urgently need enhanced support to survive. Make no mistake our Pubs & Brewers are in great peril. Without Government action we stand to lose 1000s of pubs, hundreds of 1000s of jobs & the very heart of our communities
From the details we have, it looks like a disappointing announcement for Beer & Pub Sector. Outdoor opening -as we told Gov- not viable option. More support will be needed to survive prolonged closure, but what we really need is to be opened fully inside&out as soon as possible.
I'm delighted to join
#CANZUK
International's board to strengthen the ties between the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to forge a common alliance on
#freetrade
, foreign policy and to enable greater travel between our nations 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿
The future of our Great British Pubs are at risk. If we lose them we lose part of our culture and our communities will lose a vital social asset forever. We need support now to survive.
BREAKING: 40% of Britain’s 47,000 pubs won’t survive beyond September, unless they get more support from Government to get them through the COVID-19 lockdown.
More needs to be done to support hospitality. The cost of doing business is just too high. The price could be losing more of our pubs and hospitality businesses that give vitality to our high streets towns and villages.
Congratulations Sir Tim Martin, such a stalwart of the great British pub, on being awarded a knighthood for his contribution and achievements to the pub sector 🍻
Delaying 21st June is beyond disappointing for the sector - it’s devastating news for the hardest hit sector. Gov needs to address the economic impact of the delay & support our pubs & brewers
4 more weeks of restrictions will cost pubs £400 million ❗
There can be no further delays to full reopening 🙅♂️
Pubs must open properly on July 19th 🔓
Financial support is also now needed to see our pubs through to the end of the year 💰
Fantastic to have the support of 68 Conservative MPs calling on
@RishiSunak
to deliver beer duty cut 💪
We pay £3.6 billion in Beer Duty each year - more than Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands & Ireland combined!
That’s not right or fair. It must change.
#LongLiveTheLocal
Great news today that Scottish Government is delivering funding support for Scottish Brewers as BBPA campaigned for. 🍻
@HMTreasury
and
@RishiSunak
must take note and deliver same support to brewers across rest of UK who have been devastated by COVID-19 due to closure of pubs.
Extending the furlough scheme to the end of April is a welcome reassurance for our teams, as is committing to paying 80% of wages, but we desperately need more grant support, confirmation of a business rates holiday and a duty and VAT cut for beer to see us through.
A wonderful evening at the
@beerandpub
Annual Dinner last night. We raised over £20k for charity and celebrated John Longden from
@PubistheHub_uk
with our Industry Champion Award for his huge contribution to pubs and the communities they serve. 👏🏻🍻
Fantastic to see HRH The Prince of Wales & The Duchess of Cornwall out in Old Town Clapham supporting our British Pubs & Brewers at the Prince of Wales (Fact of the day: Prince of Wales of the 24th most popular name of a Pub in the UK)🍻
Delighted that some pubs will be opening outdoors from today. Hope everyone enjoys that first pint in the beer garden! Here’s hoping the weather picks up this week. In the meantime wrap up warm and support your local 🍻
#LongLiveTheLocal
Great to see
@ChefTomKerridge
on Question Time Panel this evening.
Fantastic voice for our industry on the support it needs both now and heading into the future💪
Good
#Budget2021
for pubs and brewers in the short term securing over £1.5 billion in support, including a beer duty freeze 🍻
Longer term support still needed and we'll continue to push hard for this but the recovery of the sector took a step in the right direction today.
Pleased to join
@bfbi1907
this afternoon to take part in the International Brewing and Cider Awards. Congratulations to all the medal winners. With Georgina Young of
@StAustellBrew
who won the Championship Smallpack Lager Gold for
#Korev
Cheers! 🍻
This short-term package of support from
@RishiSunak
is welcome at this extremely challenging time for pubs and brewers. It will be a vital lifeline for many given the dramatically reduced Christmas trade we have experienced.
#LongLiveTheLocal
Today we submitted our representations to
@RishiSunak
and
@hmtreasury
ahead of the March Budget.
In them, we’re calling for:
✅ Beer Duty cut
✅ Extended Business Rates holiday
✅ Extended VAT cut
These measures will be vital if our sector is to fully recover after COVID.
Delighted to join the committee at
@SIGAlliance
to continue my work in sports integrity as a Director for Global Sports Policy. Come join us to strengthen Sport & champion it’s special power
Energy costs are closing pubs and breweries.If the Gov won’t reconsider energy support it must crackdown on the suppliers who are taking advantage of the market and lower the unfair tax burden on pubs and brewers, otherwise this trend will only continue.
Taking our
@beerandpub
Budget asks to No.10. The sector is still experiencing exceptional cost pressures. To unlock growth we need
@Jeremy_Hunt
to reduce the tax burden on Business Rates, VAT & keep a pint affordable for all 🍺 Help us to continue to invest in people & places
Last week
@beerandpub
published sales figures which showed a 56% decline in the sale of beer in pubs throughout 2020.
This fall looks set to continue unless Govt includes Pubs in its roadmap out of lockdown on 22 Feb.
#CostOfLockdown
Tiers announced by PM unfairly targets
#pubs
& will force many to close for good. We continue to make the case for pubs reopening safely & viably this Christmas. If Government goes ahead with these tiers then it MUST deliver increased grant support for our sector.
There is NO legitimate argument for a second referendum. If we respect democracy we should ALL respect the result. Time to focus on securing the best future for our country.
Superb to be back at
@MorningAd
#PublicanAwards
this evening and honoured to have been a judge this year and have the chance to celebrate the amazing work of publicans across the country. Well done & good luck to all the finalists!
Pubs and brewers will not be able to wait days, let alone months to get clarity on their energy bills. Many are making decisions now as to whether they will have to close their doors this winter. We need urgent clarity from Government now
@beisgovuk
Signing CPTPP is a significant achievement for the UK, boosting trade with the important & growing Indo-Pacific markets.
@KemiBadenoch
@GrahamZebedee
👏🏻🍻
I have just formally signed the UK’s entry into CPTPP in Auckland, New Zealand 🤝
This will be a big boost for British businesses and open up huge opportunities and unparalleled access to a market of over 500 million people in the Indo-Pacific and beyond 🇬🇧📈
Pubs and brewers across the UK are at risk of closure within months amid price hikes upwards of 300%, industry bosses have warned. Bosses of six of the UK's biggest pub and brewing companies have signed an open letter to the Government urging it to act.
The Chancellor’s decision to reverse the Alcohol Duty Freeze is a huge blow to brewers and pubs. The freeze would have delivered a £300m saving to our industry at a critical time when we desperately need any relief to help us survive and recover.
These 270 million lost pints reflect 270 million lost opportunities for friends, families and communities to be together, safely, in their local this Christmas.
Our pubs & brewers deserve better
@BorisJohnson
We forecast December pub beer sales will be down 90% this year - that's 270 million LESS pints than normal 🍺⬇️
The tier restrictions and lack of Government financial support are killing our pubs❌
Many wont survive Christmas unless things change
More than 50 beer and pub businesses from our membership have written to
@BorisJohnson
demanding a definitive reopening date for ALL pubs by this Friday.
Our sector is at crisis point.
Welcome relief for our pubs today with
@RishiSunak
announcement on additional grant package.
@beerandpub
now stand ready to work with the Government on support for our Brewers, the long-term roadmap to recovery & economic stimulus package needed to fire our sector on through 2021
Thanks to Laura & the Team at
@Everards1849
The Crown at
#Uppingham
for hosting me last night. Staying in a Pub is great. Perfectly located, great food & drink and guaranteed warm welcome - oh and a fab breakfast!
#stayinapub
@Laura_Sunchaser
Very proud of
@beerandpub
Team for winning
@TAForum
Diversity & Inclusion Award for our work promoting Diversity & Inclusion in our sector with our
#OpenToAll
Charter 🍻🎉👏🏻
Jubilee celebrations continue with
@JosephHolt1849
Jubilee Ale at
#HalfwayHouseBlackpool
Another example of huge industry investment creating a successful business but also great pub at heart of the community. 🍻
Nick Mackenzie CEO
@greeneking
lays out the situation the Beer & Pub sector face & the reasons why the PM & Government need to give us a clear roadmap to reopening and continued support
#LongLiveTheLocal
When in Liverpool do check out
@VisitEngland
Taste of Britain Award winner
@lubanliverpool
Exceptional Chinese cuisine. Many thanks to
@DaveJCritchley
& the Lu Ban team for hosting me for their Brunch 🍜It was delicious! Can’t wait to come back 🍻
Honoured to have been appointed as the WBA new Chair. Our industry faces multiple global challenges that require a collective global response. I look forward to working to ensure we can continue to brew drinks that bring so much to people in communities all around the world. 🍻