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Originally Posted by Benipete
Sorry for the delay to your answer but not being a councilor or indeed a solicitor I find it hard to talk before I think.
Done a full days research and could not find a pub in Accrington that was owned or run by a brewery
Due to government regulations they were forced to sell off most of their outlets leading to the invention of Leisure Groups who now control the industry
Some are good and some not so good not allowed to name the bad ones but there is no show without him
I do, not like you have to jump on the band wagon of discontent To gain popularity nor do I have people pulling my strings.
Sometimes you sound quite sensible(Is that you talking) Other times you talk ABSOLUTE GARBAGE (is that you talking)
Before long you will be blaming oil company's for the price of petrol.
Thanks for the red square(that's were you should be) and do learn to spell council if you want to stay on it,Or buy a red jacket.  
Oh bye the way I had 39 years in the trade and was never refused help from the brewery. |
Firstly, counsell is quite different from a council, or indeed a councillor.
Secondly, I never mentioned Accrington as almost all my experience has been in the Preston area although I cannot believe that it is confined purely to one region. Scottish and Newcastle, Enterprise Inns and now Marstons have all helped to cripple perfectly healthy pubs that I have been involved with through pure greed. There is no getting around it, I have watched it happen and seen the tenancy agreements which have forced perfectly good landlords to up sticks because it simply isn't worth opening the doors under the new contract.
If, in 39 years, you've not had a bad experience with breweries then you've been very lucky. Trying to get anything out of them to improve a pub (even down to a glasswasher in one instance) is seemingly impossible as a team of reps barricade the lines of communication in order to justify their own miserable jobs. Being a publican in England doesn't look very much fun at the moment unless you run a free house.
There is no bandwagon to jump on and you have a very skewed view of what being a councillor actually means. Who on Earth is pulling my strings and to what ends?
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