Pub chain boss to talk Brexit with customers

THE founder and chairman of the J D Wetherspoon pub chain is to visit two Swansea Bay pubs tomorrow to talk to customers about Brexit.

Tim Martin says he intends to visit more than 100 Wetherspoon pubs across the UK to speak to customers and media about the huge economic advantages of leaving the EU on 29 March, 2019, without a deal.

He’s scheduled to talk at 1.30pm for around an hour at the The David Protheroe in Neath and will be at The Bank Statement in Swansea’s Wind Street from 4pm.

Mr Martin wants the UK to adopt the free trade approach of countries like New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Singapore and Israel.

He argues that these advantages will be lost if the government signs up for a deal with the EU, which keeps the UK tied in to the protectionist EU customs union.

Mr Martin said: “Now that the details of the appalling deal, negotiated by the Downing Street kitchen cabinet have become clear, it is certain the UK will be financially far better off by choosing no deal.

“The hard mathematics demonstrate beyond doubt that no deal leaves the public and the UK better-off on day one after Brexit. The UK will immediately gain by non-payment of the proposed £39 billion, for which lawyers have repeatedly confirmed there is no legal liability.”