the govenment think drinking is bad for you and a minonority of people put pressure on the govenment to act so inevitably the govenment will rather than directly close pubs will make it so hard for pubs to survive they are forced to close
pubs cant compete with supermarkets prices for beer so rather than lower what tax pubs have to pay the govenment want to increase tax on what supermarkets pay which dosnt help pubs but does rake in a whole load of extra cash for the govenment
just by driving over teh hills of teh accrington area you can see how much damage has been done to teh pub industry because most of teh pubs are now indian returants
despite what teh govenment claim teh smoking ban is the number 1 reason for teh demise of most of the pubs that have closed, until teh smoking ban there has never been such a huge amount of pubs close in such a short time and not even this so called credit crunch can be used as an excuse because most pubs survived previous depressions