Making the news today....

[eggsarascal]

1 minute ago, trigger_andy said:

Not when there is 80% of wages handed out. 
 

There is literally millions of Europe’s who have gained the right to stay in the U.K. They might enjoy working in a Pub, but I expect they like free cash even more. 
 

Round my way, pre-Covid the vast majority of Pub/Restaurant workers where British students. I suspect it’s no different now. 

Perhaps I haven't understood you properly, Wetherspoons staff are back off furlough, they don't get a say in it. If all those people still on furlough were back at work they would, possibly still be working where they were before furlough. It's quite simple, his business model, especially in big cities relied on European labour, that labour isn't here in the vast numbers since Brexit.

[trigger_andy]

1 minute ago, eggsarascal said:

Perhaps I haven't understood you properly, Wetherspoons staff are back off furlough, they don't get a say in it. If all those people still on furlough were back at work they would, possibly still be working where they were before furlough. It's quite simple, his business model, especially in big cities relied on European labour, that labour isn't here in the vast numbers since Brexit.

If his business model requires European Labour and the U.K. is still flooded with Europeans who have gained a right to stay in the U.K. due to living here before a certain deadline why are they not working for him? 
 

 

[eggsarascal]

3 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

If his business model requires European Labour and the U.K. is still flooded with Europeans who have gained a right to stay in the U.K. due to living here before a certain deadline why are they not working for him? 
 

 

No idea, pay?

 

And why would he want migration if the place is flooded with them?

Edited June 2, 2021 by eggsarascal

[trigger_andy]

Just now, eggsarascal said:

No idea, pay?

I guess it will just be one of life’s little mystery’s. 

[Mark J]

4 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

A bit of hypocrisy anyone.

 

Wetherspoons boss calls for more EU migration to help staff bars

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

 

We can all help him out by avoiding his lousy pubs.
He laid off loads of his staff and told them to work at Tesco.
You reap what you sow.

Edited June 2, 2021 by Mark J

[sime42]

I know. Being a Remainer I have boycotted Dyson products but I cannot boycott Rosies 8% cider at a couple of quid a pint. Had a few of those at the Spoons in Broad Street Birmingham a few years back. Deceptively strong and very drinkable

Like all good ciders. Deceptively strong and very drinkable. I made a batch once that was barely distinguishable from apple juice, yet after a couple of pints you were almost legless, literally!
Old Rosie is very good by the way.

[eggsarascal]

8 minutes ago, Mark J said:

We can all help him out by avoiding his lousy pubs.
He laid off loads of his staff and told them to work at Tesco.
You reap what you sow.

I'm absolutely gutted he's struggling to find staff.

[sime42]

A bit of hypocrisy anyone.
 

Wetherspoons boss calls for more EU migration to help staff bars

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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?