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So, - very soon a pub serving beer will be as difficult to find as a service station selling petrol. Oh well, lets all stay at home and break open a can of coke and a packet of crisps.
NO, NO, NO, - lets all go to a pub for smokers only, staffed by smokers only and operated by a pipe smoking independent landlord who can choose his own beers AND sell tobacco.
Non smokers still welcome of course (bring your own mask) and chairs will be provided in the pub car park - if they prefer fresh air. Truth is, most of them would use the smoking pubs and ignore the risk to 'elf and safety - just as they did before they were allowed to mount their high horses.
Pubs have always been a British traditional way of friendly social gathering, but alas, - it is now fast becoming yet another loss to the British way of life - and to lose it to a pressure group unable or unwilling to support the fabric they have effectively destroyed, is foolish, unfair and unforgivable.
Selfish, whinging, self righteous and holier-than-thou so called fresh air addicts, will no doubt overlook their contributions to polluted air and people annoying pastimes - and will already be frothing with indignation and setting up a torrent of suitable words to demolish my "dreadfully mistaken" line of reasoning.
Fire away, - you have every right to disagree, but I have given my viewpoint and have no intention of being drawn into a response, or conduct a pointless exchange of tit-for-tat point scoring with any of you. I rest my case.
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So, - very soon a pub serving beer will be as difficult to find as a service station selling petrol. Oh well, lets all stay at home and break open a can of coke and a packet of crisps.
NO, NO, NO, - lets all go to a pub for smokers only, staffed by smokers only and operated by a pipe smoking independent landlord who can choose his own beers AND sell tobacco.
Non smokers still welcome of course (bring your own mask) and chairs will be provided in the pub car park - if they prefer fresh air. Truth is, most of them would use the smoking pubs and ignore the risk to 'elf and safety - just as they did before they were allowed to mount their high horses.
Pubs have always been a British traditional way of friendly social gathering, but alas, - it is now fast becoming yet another loss to the British way of life - and to lose it to a pressure group unable or unwilling to support the fabric they have effectively destroyed, is foolish, unfair and unforgivable.
Selfish, whinging, self righteous and holier-than-thou so called fresh air addicts, will no doubt overlook their contributions to polluted air and people annoying pastimes - and will already be frothing with indignation and setting up a torrent of suitable words to demolish my "dreadfully mistaken" line of reasoning.
Fire away, - you have every right to disagree, but I have given my viewpoint and have no intention of being drawn into a response, or conduct a pointless exchange of tit-for-tat point scoring with any of you. I rest my case.
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Of course none of these problems are in any way related to the simple fact that the breweries continue to control the means of production, the means of distribution and the retail outlets (i.e. the pubs); and that for years they have used that power to fix the price of a basic pint. IIRC were'nt some breweries caught setting up cartels back in the 80's so that they could fix the regional price of a pint?
If you want pubs to flourish and thrive then they need to be set free. The breweries should be forced to sell off all the pubs to individual landlords and those pubs should then be allowed to buy their wares on a truly open market at free and competitive prices.
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Another English tradition going down the plug hole, drinking at home is not quite the same as going down to the local.
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The blindingly obvious point that many will choose to avoid is that the pubs have all seen a move of the usual clients who now go to the superstore for cut price beer and wines and spirits for 1 single reason the decline coincides with the SMOKING BAN.
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