Body & Soul0 min ago
Wetherspoons.
Tim Martin is to receive a Knighthood in the New Years Honours.For services to business And Brexit..OMG they are giving these knighthoods away.
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Why shouldn't a very successful businessman, a man whose business employs many thousands of people, not be worthy of a Knighthood?
Actors, who are required to read out loud something someone else has written in a manner required by a director, are always getting them, but there never seems to be such an outcry with these.
"15:42, yeah and Alan Sugar is a barra boy! He's a business man creating thousands of jobs a little bit silly top say he's a "publican"."
Only just a little bit silly?
Without people like Mr Martin there would be no businesses in the UK generating the wealth needed to provide jobs, sustain the over heavy State machine, pay people their Universal Credits, pay for the incredibly inefficient NHS.
"...what else does he do to make his money?"
Well one thing that does keep him quite well occupied is acting as an unpaid tax collector for the Exchequer. In the year to July 2023, Wetherspoons paid £760m in taxes to the government. This accounts for £1 in every £1,000 raised by all taxes. It represents 40% of Wetherspoons net sales (i.e the money that went over the bars in their 900-odd pubs and 55 hotels) and is 25 times greater than their annual profits.
What is it in this country when creating and running a very successful business is seen in the same light as slaying all the first-born? It cannot surely be Mr Martin's views on the EU and the government's handling of the pandemic can it?
