(1229) Afternoon all. (1329)
10. Moosh corner
9. One to keep an eye on
8. Either way they get you
7. TPA bulletin on the dying pub
(Sadly, they do not supply a website url)
“With the price of a pint now around £5 on average across the country, the pub is starting to feel more like a luxury that needs to be justified rather than a regular pastime. And be in no doubt, it’s not the publicans who are to blame. Like most other things that make Britain an increasingly challenging place to live in, this is on the people at the top, and our MPs in Westminster. More than happy to be snapped in pics pulling pints during election campaigns, when they arrive in the Palace of Westminster they’ve routinely pulled the rug out.
As TPA wonks have found, the average pub now pays £100,000 in annual taxes on alcoholic drinks alone. Ever wonder why a pint is so pricey? Well over 28 per cent of the cost is just VAT and alcohol duty, with similar percentages for cider, wine and spirits. Demonstrating just how painful alcohol duty is for the British pub, if the price of a pint had just risen in line with inflation since 1989 it would be £2 cheaper, saving the average punter £248 per year. Yet shockingly, it is rumoured that the chancellor is considering hiking booze taxes even further. “