No Pub No Rent
#NoPubNoRent
We have all been asked a question: “What will you drink when pubs reopen?”
The question is not what will you drink when pubs re-open? The question is whether pubs will be able to re-open?
STAR PUBS AND BARS that is part of HEINEKEN are demanding rent from us for the last 13 weeks since the lockdown and the foreseeable future.
We, over the years, by dint of hard and imaginative work, have contributed to Star Pubs and Bars / Heineken profits (Heineken made over £2 billion net profit in the last financial year) and yet they seek to reward us by driving us to the verge of bankruptcy.
We believe no rent is owed while the pubs are illegal to operate.
We obey the Government’s strictures to close our business. Admiral Taverns, Shepherd Neame, Fuller’s, Young’s and eleven other pubcos recognise the financial implications of this and do the honourable thing by cancelling all rent obligations. Why can’t Star Pubs and Bars follow their example?
What they are seeking to do may, strictly, be within the law, but it is, plainly, outside the boundaries of any definition of morality.
Please sign and share this petition among your followers and friends.
https://www.change.org/p/star-pubs-save-our-pubs-no-rent-during-lockdown
“We all in this together!”
Thank you for your messages of support and we hope to see you soon when we re-open.
