Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
#1
Indeed, you are quite right. Why should we be that bothered about the wiping-out of a Huddersfield Industry?
I read, and some will know, that from Huddersfield comes a 'healthy' tipple called "Black Beer". This is drunk in the main, for it's medicinal properties, by the elderly and has enjoyed a tax-break since 1931 because of it's much avowed medicinal properties. Not so from April.
How much a 68cl bottle costs at the moment I don't know, but the price could rise by as much as £2 a bottle.
Need I say more?
Add to this the continuing price hike in tipples of all sorts and the nonsense about minimum pricing and it's goodbye Pub.
On the brighter side for those who reside by the sea, and especially for those on the Kent coast they may, as with savings, take their business off-shore.
As for the grannies of the hinterland, well life has got that little bit less worth living.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
- Posts: 2,096
#2
I don't think the minimum pricing will affect what's sold in pubs, it's over that already.
It's more the cheap high alcohol stuff that it's intended for and Black Beer unfortunately has got caught up in it - someone on breakfast tv today showed a bottle of chemical muck pretending to be cider that will rise from £2 to £6. (They shouldn't be making too much fuss about it's medicinal properties or they'll likely get hit by EU medicine regulations!)
