[the truth]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

If you run a pub you work in the pub through the day and have staff for eves/weekends surely?

YOU ALWAYS NEED 2 people or more.....cleaning the pipes, serving booze, cleaning, serving food, washing glasses, cleaning up glass, pool teams, darts teams, constantly dealing with someone from the brewery, the amusement rentals the juke boxes, pool table, sky, bt, the council , he accountants, electricians, plumbers, the police, troublesome punters, etc then you have to visit the cash and carry umpteen times the list goes on and on

most pubs are closing because the supermarkets are so cheap and the red tape is worse than ever.....increasing the basic wages of staff by 25% will kill off the pubs and many 1000s more small businesses...the money simply isn't there.....the gap used to be bridged by working tax credits to top up wages, now that's gone too so this is a double blow to small businesses....clearly the last few governments don't give a damn about small busiensses...theyre enslaving us ever more to giant monopolies....like the gas companies who overcharged us by over £1 billion last year. ...labour party should fight to re nationalise the utilities (and the trains too imo)