Wetherspoon pours out Brexit message on beer mats

Tim Martin, boss of cheap-and-cheerful pub chain JD Wetherspoon and an outspoken supporter of the UK’s departure from the EU, has turned his attention from getting any Brexit to getting the right Brexit.

Drinkers will be greeted by a “hard-hitting message on Brexit” when they look down at beer mats awaiting them in the chain’s 895 UK pubs, the company said.

The message, printed on 500,000 mats, calls on the leaders of the UK’s three main political parties to “stop messing about” and endorse the company’s “three-point manifesto.” In the weeks leading up to the EU referendum last year, the chain distributed 200,000 beer mats making the case for Brexit.