Tim Martin has form when it comes to Nigel Farage. He was to be found in a supporting role in Farage’s Brexit campaign. What Wetherspoons actually gained out of Brexit seems unclear but this month a new Spoons in Alicante has opened.
This I think tells us that while Tim Martin is good at pubs he is useless at politics.
The Reform pub plan, written on the back of one of Farage’s fag packets, does not add up financially. It doesn’t really need to because Reform are not in Government.
The attraction to Martin is clear. There is a focus on moving towards equalising tax paid by pubs and that paid by supermarkets. Martin has long campaigned on this and rightly so.
After he issued a missive to the Stock Exchange on this and why he backed Reform’s ‘plan’ he confessed himself non-plussed as to why so few others in hospitality had backed it. A reminder again that Martin is good at pubs and dreadful at politics. Hospitality has swerved the Farage ‘plan’ because most know his niche appeal is bad for their business. The Fullers Chair did initially back the ‘plan’ before quickly doing a U-turn and explaining he was about pubs not politics.
Pubs are inherently political but the rancid racist politics of Farage won’t help at all
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