Tag Archives: small business bill

Caron Lindsay

All hail the Casked Crusader and his cross party supporters!

By Caron Lindsay | Tue 18th November 2014 - 5:20 pm

The Casked Crusader

Greg Mulholland and MPs from all parties should be toasted (in the drinks sense not the fork over the fire sense) in every pub in England tonight. Greg’s amendment to the Small Business Bill, giving pub landlords in tied houses the right to a fair rent, squeaked through the House of Commons by a margin of just 15 votes.

28 Liberal Democrats and 15 Tories defied the Government whips to pass the measure, overturning the Government’s usual majority of about 60. It’s a good, transformative liberal measure which takes power from large companies and gives it to struggling landlords. Gareth Epps deserves a whole heap of praise as well for his pretty tireless campaigning on the issue.

Continue reading »
Posted in News | Also tagged and | 21 Comments
Advert



Recent Comments

  • Peter Davies
    On the name of UBI, National Income Dividend is the most philosophically satisfying as it provides a moral justification to counter the Moral Hazard argument. H...
  • Peter Davies
    There is only one form of PR that been this party's policy for as long as any of us can remember and that is STV. It doesn't have thresholds but parties do need...
  • Steve Trevethan
    Thank you for a so important article! To what extent has the fashion for, and implementation of, austerity been responsible for the contexts which increase m...
  • Gwyn Williams
    I was going to rather sarcastically point out that the Welsh Assembly was replaced by the Senedd, which means Parliament in English, in 2021. However it illustr...
  • Jenny Barnes
    oh - and capital gains !!...