Lara Trubshaw
@LaraInCornwall
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Cornish girl raising kids and running @visitengland’s best pub 2024, Newsreader & PR/Marketing manager in a former life. Follow @thepeterville St Agnes
Cornwall, UK
Joined June 2009
Can we talk about the business rate value reassessment. Our pub: £18,500 to £73,500. Please explain @RachelReevesMP I’m numb. #hospitality
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Another pub has run the numbers… More proof successful businesses are being taxed into closure. We’re looking at an extinction level event for hospitality. #taxedout #cutvat #savehospitality
In my spare time I run a village pub. It’s the centre of a small Berkshire village, and has been in use as a pub since 1723 (we’ve owned the building - built c. 1400 - since 1608). We’ve just run the numbers. It’s not looking good. Net profit is down a third of pre-covid
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We need an Emergency VAT cut to 13% in line with Europe and the rates issue investigated. Full stop. To stop a complete decimation of our industry in the Dark Quarter #CutVat #TaxedOut #Hospitality
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Backing pubs means reducing the unfair level of taxes they face. From every £1 spent, over 40p goes in tax leaving only 1 in 3 now profitable. Despite promises, the budget increased taxes which will mean less than 1 in 10 profitable, urgent action is vital. https://t.co/aUGxUq3Pa0
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The government says it delivered a £4.3bn support package for pubs and restaurants in the Budget.
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A gift voucher is not only the perfect present for someone special but also the perfect way show your support to your local pub. Delivered directly to your inbox and valid for a year, why not give someone the gift of The Peterville Inn? Buy here: https://t.co/AOH8LdZgET
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Not unexpected to anyone watching what is going on!
UK economy shrank unexpectedly by 0.1% in October, official figures show
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@LaraInCornwall You and me both Lara. MPs line their own pockets and our business fail. I have two pubs and I can see within a few months they will both be gone. No idea what to do next. Too old to retrain. Drive a white van maybe
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She doesn’t have a clue what she’s doing. She’s flailing in the dark as it becomes increasingly clear her left wing ideology is flawed when put into economic practice. Unfortunately while she flails - small business fails. It has to stop. Now. #savehospitality #cutvat
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🤡 Our economy is being run by clowns. The Bank of England has now had to issue an emergency warning because employers are cutting staff at the fastest pace since the pandemic. And why is this happening? Because this economically illiterate government still can’t grasp the
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'We've got to the stage where enough is enough!' Andy Lennox, the landlord of the Old Thatch pub in Wimborne, Dorset, explains why he has barred Labour MPs following the Autumn Budget, which has put 'unbelievable strain on the hospitality industry'.
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After a really crappy day and a major wobble to find this ✨ gorgeous ✨message in my @ThePeterville inbox was exactly what I needed. Maybe the plight of #hospitality is really starting to cut through? MP’s are hearing it from more than just the industry - yes!
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Honestly I think I’ve hit rock bottom this morning. I can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel anymore 😢
18 months ago this was us - winning the @VisitEngland Pub of the Year award. Elation, plans for a bright future, investment and expansion all planned. Now? Sleepless nights, anxiety, real dread. A very uncertain future for my family. This is what you have done @RachelReevesMP .
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This is why we are up in arms 👇
Still confused about what the Budget means for Britain’s pubs? Let us break it down for you. Our Tax and Trade Policy Manager, @morganschondelmeier, explains why the government’s so-called “golden era of hospitality” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and unpacks why pubs across
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The Tories want people to have jobs. You are making it too expensive to employ people. A reminder that every Labour government has left office with unemployment higher than when it arrived. Every. Labour. Government.
The Tories don't want low earning workers to be paid more. They're not on your side. They haven't changed. https://t.co/8EYPvgeK5N
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This is truly outstanding. If you need anymore proof she’s not fit for office - this is it.
🚨 Rachel Reeves has suggested there is no link between Labour’s increase in employers’ National Insurance and high unemployment figures Read more 👇 https://t.co/YKSzK2fIlU
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Say it louder for the MP’s at the back 👏🏻
THE FACTS ONLY 1 IN 10 PUBS WILL BE PROFITABLE FOLLOWING LABOUR'S NEW BUDGET. FACT. A HOSPITALITY BUSINESS NOW CLOSES EVERY DAY. FACT. === THE GOVERNMENT NOW MAKES MORE IN A PINT THAT YOUR PUB DOES. FACT. === HOSPITALITY HAVE ENGAGED WITH MPS, WRITTEN TO MP'S, LOBBIED GOVERNMENT
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The Government is celebrating using the taxes they’ve taken from businesses (so they can’t afford to employ young people)…to fund state-subsidised jobs…for the very same young people! Today in Parliament I pointed out Labour’s economics of the madhouse (HT @afneil )
Only Labour would deliver job-destroying budgets ...and then spend taxpayers' money on government-created jobs. It's absurd, but it's Labour.
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Siri show me the definition of madness 🤡
Labour says they will train young people to work in pubs and restaurants… Meanwhile 111,000 workers in the sector have lost their jobs this year and hundreds of pubs and restaurants have closed under Labour’s incompetent tax policies. They really are THIS insane 🤡
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In our letter to @RachelReevesMP , more than 80 of our members said the chancellor had “blindsided” the industry and they predicted pub closures would further accelerate from the current rate of one a day. Our fantastic members - who help support more than a million jobs across
thetimes.com
Chief executives say the chancellor has failed to deliver on her boasts of helping the sector as it faces additional costs of £160 million and an acceleration in pub closures
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The government’s announcement yesterday on 25hr funded apprenticeships appears to to forget that there is no employment without thriving businesses, thats why hospitality needs urgent action on reducing business rates and VAT
In a debate on Extended Producer Responsibility, @DrNeilHudson emphasised the hospitality sector contributes £93 billion economically and is the third largest employer in the country. The tax burden must be shifted. EPR is adding to the cost crisis facing hospitality.
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How are they going to shoehorn these apprenticeships into hospitality if all the businesses have closed? The idea we’re just sat here desperate to employ is hilarious.
Ministers promise 50,000 new apprenticeships in bid to tackle youth unemployment
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