I regret to inform you that BrewDog – once steered and “captained” by former owner James Watt – is at it again.

In what is yet another inglorious, infamous and a rather in keeping character move from the company, they look set to shut 10 bars across the UK – some within mere days with workers being tossed on the scrapheap – with their flagship pub in Aberdeen being sunk without a trace.

To cut their staff so ruthlessly reveals what most of us already knew about BrewDog.

They’re hardly punks with a purpose. Almost 100 jobs could go, with some already away despite the companies promise to focus on redeploying their workforce.

Their bar in Leeds, for example, told workers that, in a mere 96 hours, they would be unemployed.

This is precisely the type of conduct the Prime Minister promised to eliminate when launching his New Deal for Working People.

The New Deal should be holding companies to account – pirate sailors like P&O, for example – who flout employment law with impunity and dismiss their staff with disregard. It can’t be enacted quickly enough.

A spokesperson for BrewDog said the “difficult decision” had been taken as a result of “ongoing industry challenges”.

They added these included “rising costs, increased regulation, and economic pressures”.

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