James Vidler
fownhopeboy.bsky.social
James Vidler
@fownhopeboy.bsky.social
🔶Running, Spurs, LibDem Councillor, Hotelier.#FBPE 🇪🇺🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🇨🇦⚽️🍺🔶🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Expect another 100k lost jobs in hospitality in 2026.
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
20% going to the govt in tax
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
If tax free allowance is static, 20% of rise will go to government.
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It's as if all they thought about was campaigning and nothing about how they were going to govern
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Tories shifted tax from income to VAT.
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The president may have immunity but no one else does
October 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
How about UK supermarkets start paying VAT on food and VAT is lowered for hospitality as in Europe. How about they pay as a % of turnover the same level of business rates as hospitality does.
October 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Tories think there is annual saving of £8billion in bringing civil servant numbers back to 2016 levels. Wonder what caused the rise in bureaucracy 🤔
October 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The parallels between the Great Depression, the 2008 financial crisis and the rise of populist right wing othering is pretty clear
October 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Tories are obsessed with sugar rush policies, boosting already overvalued property prices, that favour the well off, construction companies and the banks. Far better to invest for the long term, to raise productivity and to reduce inequality
October 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Prepared for war is the only way to preserve peace.
October 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Apart from Putin's war, the biggest cause of the increase in immigration is the ending of free movement. The Farage flood is more apt to
September 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Bring back free movement to lower immigration
September 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Reduce Hospitality and Tourism VAT to European levels, to revitalise seaside and market towns, not sticking plaster policies.
September 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM