I'm thinking just the same. Going to have to order a cask in now.

So instead we see the last resort for a debt-laden pubco.

Good, profitable (just no longer profitable enough now that the tenants are doing ok!) pubs simply sold off, with the long-suffering tenants (who generate all the wealth) thrown in as little more than goods and chattels.

Presumably this is because a Section 25 no fault eviction is not an option any time soon.

After all, that would be the normal way of dealing with a pesky tenant who has had the temerity to secure a Free of Tie deal and thus secure themself a fair income from their own business.

You are not alone. 🍻

It's a cracker. 🍻

And what utterly fab pictures they are, thank you so much.
When were they taken please?

Exactly this. At @campaignforpubs.bsky.social we are trying hard to get this message across to the media and to the Govt.
It's a simple no cost UK growth win.

Access to market is indeed a scandal.
And current suggestions to allow a single guest line go nowhere near far enough.
We need to prise our industry out of the vice-like grip of the #GreatBritishPubcoScam once and for all, and consign the tie itself to history.

Couldn't agree more!

Sounds interesting Claire. 👍🍻

Cheers, I'll try to find that. 👍

Are there any more details about the meeting anywhere please?

Hmm. It all basically depends who was attending Matt.
No doubt SIBA will have been included for example, but they are now headed up by a dyed-in-the-wool pubco man.
(I had many online run-ins with him when I was still a tied Punch tenant.)
There's a revolving door in that BBPA orbit.

"Scabbling for scraps“ is absolutely right.
It's so obviously wrong, but successive Govt's keep falling for the narrative of the BBPA (and all those in its orbit) - whose constant job it is, of course, to lobby in defence of the anti-competitive status quo that so benefits their members.