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News Article Comments : Repent ye pro-ban pubgoers
The plight of the pub is not confined to those who work in the trade or write about it.
Last week I did 20 back-to-back radio interviews to coincide with the launch of the 2009 edition of the Good Beer Guide and a lively debate ensued over just how the much-loved British boozer can be saved from extinction.
The media had picked up with relish the guide’s attack on supermarket discounts that are killing pub business. Even I was dumbstruck by research that shows that while pub prices have increased by 4% in the past year they have fallen by 1% in the off-trade.
Since 2002, off-trade beer prices have been cut by 7% while pub prices have increased by a whopping 24%. Want to know why 36 pubs are pulling down the shutters every week? Just look at those figures once more.
In most of the radio slots last week, either the interviewers or listeners responded by asking: “OK, what can pubs do to revive their fortunes and get punters through the doors again?”
My thoughts were as follows: lice
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Sean Spillane 20/09/2008 08:04:35  |
RE: Repent ye pro-ban pubgoers Like everything else about this ban, Rogers comments hat he got a "blanket ban" wrong is welcome news. But what he is suggesting about "trial periods" has already been put to the DoH and it fell on deaf ears as did all other suggestions. ASH are continuing to publish their lies with no apparant action from the DoH to help pubs and clubs. Around 200 Labour MPs have very small majorities and these are the people we should be targeting. But what about the Torys, we constantly critise and bombard the Labour government over this ban, what are the Torys prepared to do to help us. With Alan Johnson telling us that a blanket ban was the level playing for everyone, Could he tell us what one sided game he used to play, Labour politics, perhaps. This post replies to this thread |
