Making the news today....

[sime42]

A bit of hypocrisy anyone.
 

Wetherspoons boss calls for more EU migration to help staff bars

WWW.LBC.CO.UK

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Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin has called for more EU migration to help tackle the shortage of bar staff working in...  

What a delicious irony.
Serves the stupid hypocrite right if he can't now get enough EU staff for his pubs after he helped to get them all kicked out.
Good beer and cider though! It's also a rare treat to actually be able to talk in a civilised manner to your friends, without having to shout above overly loud music in the background.

I was listening to a report this morning about the troubles being faced by the hospitality sector, pubs in particular, due to the post-Brexit labour shortage. It is a real phenomenon.

[eggsarascal]

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck. Now swap out duck for (add your own expletive) and you've got the likes of Tim Martin.

[David Cropper]

13 minutes ago, sime42 said:

 

 

What a delicious irony.
Serves the stupid hypocrite right if he can't now get enough EU staff for his pubs after he helped to get them all kicked out.
Good beer and cider though! It's also a rare treat to actually be able to talk in a civilised manner to your friends, without having to shout above overly loud music in the background.

I was listening to a report this morning about the troubles being faced by the hospitality sector, pubs in particular, due to the post-Brexit labour shortage. It is a real phenomenon.

 

A slight aside  to this. We received our usual Lidl weekly promotion literature yesterday. There was a section on Beers of the World, lots of French and Belgian stuff, American,  Irish, even Japanese and Australian beers, plus several European ones. Just one British beer,  Brewdog from Scotland, not one of the usual ones such as Speckled Hen, Bishop's Finger etc. That's the first time that there hasn't been a decent British selection, sign of the times maybe?

[Mark J]

24 minutes ago, David Cropper said:

A slight aside  to this. We received our usual Lidl weekly promotion literature yesterday. There was a section on Beers of the World, lots of French and Belgian stuff, American,  Irish, even Japanese and Australian beers, plus several European ones. Just one British beer,  Brewdog from Scotland, not one of the usual ones such as Speckled Hen, Bishop's Finger etc. That's the first time that there hasn't been a decent British selection, sign of the times maybe?

It could be down the new amazing trade deal we have, also breweries have scaled things down. No pubs = no profit.
I'd still rather chop a bollock off than give Tim Martin any coin.

[scbk]

My experience of wetherspoons pubs is they've been short staffed for years - I guess you get what you pay for!

[eggsarascal]

‘Bloody foreigners, staying over there avoiding our jobs’ bemoans Wetherspoons’ Tim Martin

NEWSTHUMP.COM

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Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin has today criticised the EU for raising a load of workshy fops unwilling to come over...

 

Smiley.

[trigger_andy]

6 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

‘Bloody foreigners, staying over there avoiding our jobs’ bemoans Wetherspoons’ Tim Martin

NEWSTHUMP.COM

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Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin has today criticised the EU for raising a load of workshy fops unwilling to come over...

 

Smiley.

Perhaps the real reason working in the U.K. was not so much the jobs and wages but the access to our benefits system? Now that they’re denied the rights to rape the system working for minimum wage is not any more appealing for them as it is for the supposedly workshy here in the U.K.?

 

If this results in companies all over the U.K. being forced to pay a real living wage to British people then I’m all for that.  I’d far rather British people who do want to work being paid a liveable wage to make it worth their while instead of some Eastern European who is entitled to a raft of benefits that is sent to these countries and allows them to live to a far higher standard than those on the same wage could enjoy here in the U.K. 

 

It really is a win/win.

 

Money generated in the U.K. stays in the economy. 

 

British citizens could be paid a wage that actually entices them off of a life of benefits.

 

Weatherspoons has to increase their prices and it keeps the Junkie Cider swilling families out.  

 

Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving.  
 

[Youngstu]

1 hour ago, trigger_andy said:

Weatherspoons has to increase their prices and it keeps the Junkie Cider swilling families out.

So you manage to make some reasonably acceptable points with only a few digs about the people in society that you don't like, well done!

Then you feel the need to finish off with a final, completely unwarranted barbed comment, directed towards  another forum member and their family. What the hell is wrong with you? 

[trigger_andy]

Just now, Youngstu said:

So you manage to make some reasonably acceptable points with only a few digs about the people in society that you don't like, well done!

Then you feel the need to finish off with a final, completely unwarranted barbed comment, directed towards  another forum member and their family. What the hell is wrong with you? 

Well, that’s your opinion. What I was referring to of course is the clientele that Weatherspoons is well renowned for. It’s hardly a secret that the dross of society hang out on a daily basis in places where they have access to cheap booze, since we’re discussing Weatherspoons it happens to be a prime example. 
 

  

[Youngstu]

Just now, trigger_andy said:

Well, that’s your opinion. What I was referring to of course is the clientele that Weatherspoons is well renowned for. It’s hardly a secret that the dross of society hang out on a daily basis in places where they have access to cheap booze, since we’re discussing Weatherspoons it happens to be a prime example. 
 

  

Ah yes, sorry I forgot that you'd including a winky faced emoji that showed everyone that you weren't really being a ....