Wetherspoons.

[gulliver1]

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.

[gulliver1]

Tim is also a close friend of Mr Farage .What are these pair up ?

[Canary42]

Who is Tim Martin ?

[ToraToraTora]

Sir Tim Martin is the gaffer of the spoons.

[Ken4155]

He's not 'Sir yet.

[gulliver1]

Tim was also very friendly with Boris   Is this another, we are all in this together scheme.

[gulliver1]

Sir Lord Snooty ..Moggy says I am delighted to hear my good friend Tim is about to join us all in The House of Lords .He can now turn his back on all those Dossers he had to supply with beer at Spoons. He has now joined us in the Champagne Set.

[naomi24]

The report I read says it's for services to business.  Have you got a link to one that mentions services to Brexit, Gulliver?

 

Whilst you're at it perhaps you'll tell us how Boris and Farage are influential in this decision.

[Deskdiary]

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.

[sandyRoe]

Canary42,

He's a publican.

[Ken4155]

I have always had a problem with folk getting honours awarded to them just for doing their day job. Be they footballers, actors, businessmen/women, politicians, etc, etc, etc.

They'll be giving knighthoods away with every copy of your favourite daily newspaper, soon.

[ToraToraTora]

DD: "Why shouldn't a very successful businessman, a man whose business employs many thousands of people,  not be worthy of a Knighthood?" - especially when their here Sir Beer got his because he was doing his job.

[New Judge]

"Tim was also very friendly with Boris   Is this another, we are all in this together scheme."

Actually it was Kemi Badenoch, the current business secretary, who recommended Mr Martin for a Knighthood:

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/brexit-campaigner-and-wetherspoon-boss-tim-martin-set-to-be-knighted-365797/

"He's a publican."

Quite so. And Rick Stein runs a fish & chip shop.

[ToraToraTora]

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".

[sandyRoe]

Is he not a publican, what else does he do to make his money?

[ToraToraTora]

He manages a business of over 800 pubs. It's like saying the CEO of Wimpey is a bricklayer.

[New Judge]

"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?

[Jarg]

No he was popeyes mate

[dustypuss]

Anybody who can give me scampi x2 and onion rings plus 2 large glases of wine for less than £18.00 in under 10min's deserves a Knighthood in my opinion. 

 

[mushroom25]

if he goes to the palace to collect his honour (assuming it won't be delivered to his table via the app), will the authorities install a portaloo for him in the most inaccessible place on the palace roof to make him feel at home?

[Jarg]

Even if the food is microwaved then dusty ?