Beer Duty down by 1p

[Jeltz]

Instead the only a penny off attitude, how about recognising that this government scrapped the beer duty escalator, introduced by Labour in 2008, which was designed to increase the duty by 2% above inflation every year.....

 

[evanvine]

A very valid point sir! :hat:

 

[johnnyboy1965]

It's a bitter pill to swallow when your standing in a 1960's looking dump being charged nearly £4 a pint whilst ducking pool cues!

Oh I've been there before! I'm an old fart before my time, I don't "go drinking" anymore (or rather, I didn't until I moved to the village and found that my local is just terrific, I like going for a few beers now!) and I'm only vaguely ashamed to admit that I've made my excuses in the past just because I knew "the sort of place" that a particular invitation would entail...

I know these places need to make a profit, but I just think they get stuck in a rut and refuse to invest in the business and instead just keep whacking up the cost of the drinks to compensate for the dwindling business.

And that's the up-side to the market economy. If the offering gets worse and the cost gets higher then more and more people will not justify parting with their cash and it goes to the wall, meanwhile somewhere offering something better has a market to grow into...

...trouble is that because of a number of factors, drinking has been on the slide. These places, the crap commodity "beer" they sell and the people who like them are IMO one of the biggest factors! They have a negative rub on ALL of drinking. We've got to be near the bottom of that curve now and so long as the standards are dragged up then the sector will do well again, the crap should get weeded out and we can get back to responsible supping of fine foaming ale and putting the world to rights...

I feel very lucky to have not one but 4 pubs in the village, all with their merits and none "bad". I really do feel for the people, like you, stuck in the "good beer deserts" that exist in large parts of the country.

This I where you are totally wrong..there is no up side on market economy, regarding beer sales. Everyone only has a certain amount of "spending money/disposable income" if you choose to go to a pub to spend your "pocket money", if you know what I mean, on a couple of beers, then now that is a luxury (sp).
Drop the tax on alcohol at source and this will end the problem

 

[chrig]

Stopping the costs from increasing can only be a good thing for our booming (micro)brewery industry

 

[calumscott]

It's a bitter pill to swallow when your standing in a 1960's looking dump being charged nearly £4 a pint whilst ducking pool cues!

Oh I've been there before! I'm an old fart before my time, I don't "go drinking" anymore (or rather, I didn't until I moved to the village and found that my local is just terrific, I like going for a few beers now!) and I'm only vaguely ashamed to admit that I've made my excuses in the past just because I knew "the sort of place" that a particular invitation would entail...

I know these places need to make a profit, but I just think they get stuck in a rut and refuse to invest in the business and instead just keep whacking up the cost of the drinks to compensate for the dwindling business.

And that's the up-side to the market economy. If the offering gets worse and the cost gets higher then more and more people will not justify parting with their cash and it goes to the wall, meanwhile somewhere offering something better has a market to grow into...

...trouble is that because of a number of factors, drinking has been on the slide. These places, the crap commodity "beer" they sell and the people who like them are IMO one of the biggest factors! They have a negative rub on ALL of drinking. We've got to be near the bottom of that curve now and so long as the standards are dragged up then the sector will do well again, the crap should get weeded out and we can get back to responsible supping of fine foaming ale and putting the world to rights...

I feel very lucky to have not one but 4 pubs in the village, all with their merits and none "bad". I really do feel for the people, like you, stuck in the "good beer deserts" that exist in large parts of the country.

This I where you are totally wrong..there is no up side on market economy, regarding beer sales. Everyone only has a certain amount of "spending money/disposable income" if you choose to go to a pub to spend your "pocket money", if you know what I mean, on a couple of beers, then now that is a luxury (sp).
Drop the tax on alcohol at source and this will end the problem

Erm... You seem to have missed my point entirely.

 

[naturals]

Some might have seen this but it amused me. Note the use of the word "they" i.e. people not like us politicians. At least they're not trying to pretend they're hard working.

And then the parodies started:

 

[Pjam]

Al Murray, 'The Pub Landlord', said 1p is a brilliant saving ........ shame it's not still 1905 :lol:

 

[johnnyboy1965]

Calms...my point is, that IIRC (not 100% sure on this) that beer is taxed at 25% as a luxury item. Now say your Government drops the tax to, lets say, 10% and the breweries pass on this discount the the customer, then I might go to the pub more often. Whever you go in Birmingham/Solihull/West Mids, the average price of a pint is £3.40. This is for a beer that you and I know who much it costs to produce. I understand that everyone has to make a living..eg breweries/landlords, but why should the consumer pay a extra 25% to your Government in tax. JMHO :