What Tim Martin of Wetherspoons said at the Parliament Square Brexit Day rally
My thanks to the Independent reporter Tom Peck who braved such crowds as there were in Whitehall on Friday night (he reports thousands but not many thousands) to bring us this report of the words spoken by Tim Martin of Wetherspoons
There was Tim Martin of Wetherspoons, saying in all seriousness that “our victory is not a victory against the people of Europe. They are our friends. It is a victory over the institutions of the European Union”.
I might be inclined to find something in Martin’s words here, although I’m not sure things like the European Court were such a bad thing or indeed that great British institutions are significantly better.
Still that is a matter for discussion over a beer, in a pub, one of Mr Martins or somewhere else
What is of interest here as Peck points out is that Martin banned European products in his pubs. Yet the European Parliament is neither a brewery or a distillery (perhaps unfortunately) so presumably that ban is now going to be lifted as it only impacts the people of Europe who are Mr Martin’s friends (probably particularly if they will work for less than the real living wage in one of his pubs)
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