MP barred pub for smoke ban support
A Greater Manchester licensee has barred his local MP from drinking in his pub for voting for the smoking ban.
Heyes: Barred for backing smoke ban
Robinson's tenant Roger Hantulik has put up posters warning Labour MP David Heyes he is not welcome at the Prince of Orange in Ashton-under-Lyne.
"He took away my choice to have smokers in my pub, so I have taken away his choice to drink here," said Hantulik.
"Trade has halved here since the ban. The average age of our customers is 40 years old and up and they were good drinkers and good smokers. Now they have gone. They sit at home drinking cheap crates of beer from the supermarkets and smoking.
"The pub is dying and I am not sure how long I can hold on here."
Hantulik has been in the trade for 20 years and at the Prince of Orange for seven years.
But MP Heyes did not seem overly bothered claiming he had not been in the pub for about eight years.
"I think the majority of people object to smoky pubs. I would vote for a smoking ban again if I had to."
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