Wetherspoon Boss Tim Martin Blames 'Dinner Party Classes' For Catastrophic Decline Of Pubs

Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin today blamed dinner party-loving politicians for the decline in the pub trade as he revealed the chain will have to shoulder £60 million in extra costs from April.In a trading update for investors the outspoken chairman of the pub chain said Prime Ministers and other politicians who preferred entertaining at home to visiting their local did not understand the impact of the different tax treatment of alcohol bought in shops, which does not attract VAT, and drinks ordered in pubs, which does.