Wetherspoons Refuses Service at Braintree Branch in Bus Parking and Filming Incident with Reform UK Supporter

A staff member at the Braintree branch of Wetherspoons refused to serve a customer who claimed to be a supporter of Reform UK. Footage posted on social media captured the staff member behind the bar stating, 'I’m deciding that,' in reference to the decision not to serve the person filming.

GB News reported the incident, which stemmed from a Reform UK supporters' bus parked in the pub's loading bay and filming taking place inside the venue.

A Wetherspoons spokesman confirmed that service was refused to Reform UK supporters at the Braintree branch due to the bus parking and the filming. The spokesman stated that Wetherspoons welcomes supporters of all political parties. He added that leaders of Reform UK have regularly used Wetherspoons pubs in Clacton and Skegness.

The spokesman further said Wetherspoons has asked all parties to use pubs on a social basis rather than a political one to maintain good order and comply with licensing obligations. He emphasized that Reform UK supporters and other political supporters are welcome at Wetherspoons but must help comply with licensing obligations. GB News has contacted Reform UK for comment.

Pubs across the country have put up signs declaring 'No Labour MPs' to show disapproval for the government's latest taxes. Andy Lennox, the landlord of The Old Thatch in Wimborne, said, 'After the last budget, we went all the way back to basics and went through all of the campaigns and started going through all the writing letters and doing everything we possibly could.

Even one of our members went to No11, and met the Chancellor.

We had a letter hand-delivered to the Chancellor, and still our taxes went up. GB News reported these developments amid calls for more support to hospitality businesses. Prime Minister and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has been banned from Jeremy Clarkson's pub, The Farmer's Dog, in the Cotswolds.

Jeremy Clarkson called for the government to offer more support to hospitality businesses. He said, '[Sir Keir] is actually the first person to be banned. It's actually on a board in the hall.

In 2020, Welsh Conservative MPs Stephen Crabb and Simon Hart were banned from the Globe in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. Landlady Jean Morris barred Stephen Crabb and Simon Hart in protest at the government's refusal to fund free school meals in England over the Christmas holidays.

Jean Morris said, 'Mr Crabb likes to remind voters at every election of his childhood spent living in social housing, in a single parent family in receipt of benefits, so one might imagine he would emphasise and have bothered to ensure children in the same situation as he found himself do not go hungry.

GB News reported these instances as part of ongoing tensions between pub owners and political figures.