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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
Hmmm. Remind me again Ken, which party it was, while in Government, who changed the licensing laws and permitted the supermarkets and every corner shop to sell alcohol at cost price 24 hrs a day in the facile belief that this would create a cafe culture completely oblivious to the effect that this would have on the traditional outlets. Hmmm? Who was that Ken?
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Bingo! It's all Labour's fault!
It is no government's fault that pricing remains so ludicrously high in public houses but people like you will believe that legislation and taxation are ultimately responsible for driving people away from the bar. The breweries will ultimately be responsible for the demise of pubs and anyone who has ventured into one recently will be able to see that. I assume you haven't, Bob.
The Rishton Workmen's Club has a shining example of brewery greed in that it is cheaper to buy Thwaites beer, beer brewed just three miles away, from Wigan Beers. Just explain how government legislation has caused a brewery to make it more expensive to buy from them directly? How is this helping pubs that want to sell local beer?
Why are tied houses which are forced to buy their beer from the brewery and paying rent on top charged almost double the price that a free house would pay for the same barrel? Labour's fault, is it? Just take a moment to think what that Labour monster Graham Jones did for clubs by working to get them better tax relief.
The one thing I will concede is that the smoking ban was too harsh and dedicated smoking rooms would have been a better idea but beyond that you are talking a load of rubbish.
If 24-hour licensing is so awful then the 'coalition' (that word makes me laugh every time I hear it) now have the power to reverse it, don't they?