To this end they are destroying everything that binds us together.
Another front in this war, the British government is taxing pubs out of business.
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A British pub is much more than a place to get drunk. It is a meeting place, the focal point of the community. Everyone has a 'local'.
Pubs are the last remnants of community in atomized Britain.
However, due to the crippling effect of government taxation, they are falling like dominos.
Since the start of the financial crisis in 2008, 4500 pubs have closed down. We are currently losing 50 a week.
Many people can longer afford to drink in a pub and buy beer from supermarkets instead. The average cost of a pint of beer in a pub is £3 ($4.75); from a supermarket, it is £1 ($1.55.)
When I was last in England, I noticed the number of people in my local had declined dramatically. In my hometown of 25,000 people, there were about 15 pubs. Now some of them are boarded up, sad shells of their former selves.
When I see them, I think of the life that's vanished.
Men would talk and joke after a hard day's work. Those in crisis would receive aid from their neighbours. Young men would have the odd fight (rather than sitting indoors playing sadistic video games). Boy and girls from local families fell in love there.
WARFARE
The government has placed monstrous taxes on beer.
These tax increases widen the gap between pubs and supermarkets, because pubs have much higher overheads.
For every £3 pint sold, more than £1 goes into the government coffers!
The duty on beer in Britain is an outrageous 55 pence per pint! This is 8 times more than the beer duty in France (a measly 7p) and 11 times more than Germany (5p)!
The duty on beer is much higher, in relative terms, than spirits. Britain has the smallest gap between beer and spirits duty in Europe. This is a sign that beer is being specifically targeted.
Under the previous New Labour government (1997-2010) the duty on
beer increased by 60%, but
the duty on spirits only increased by 25%. A few years ago, a former
aide to Jack Straw revealed that Labour's 'open door' immigration policy
was
designed to destroy British culture forever. Were the tax increases
on beer intended to do the same?
In March this year, Chancellor George Osborne further tightened the
noose. He introduced a 'duty elevator' putting the yearly increase on
alcohol duty at 2% over the rate of inflation. So that's yearly
inflation (currently 3%) + 2% EVERY YEAR!
This policy is against government self-interest. Increasing the Excise
Duty actually lowers the revenue intake on beer, and sabotages that
future tax take. Since the duty hikes, beer sales have fallen
dramatically and thousands of pubs have closed down.
Added to this criminally high excise duty, the government charges a 20%
VAT charge! On a £3 pint that is 50p!
The government claims that high taxes on beer pay for alcohol related
hospital admissions. The opposite is the case: people can no longer
afford to drink beer in a supervised environment, and instead buy cheap
spirits from supermarkets. In the last 10 years, alcohol-related
hospital admissions have more than doubled!
On top of beer taxes, pubs have to pay employment tax, business rates,
rent, staff costs and bills. Obviously they cannot absorb the taxes
hikes like multi-national supermarkets.
The pub industry accounts for nearly 1,000,000 jobs. In tough economic
times you would expect the government to protect the sector, instead
they are murdering it.
The pub unions accuse the government of bad policy. They don't realize
that our leaders are traitors who sold their souls to the Illuminati. We
need to be uprooted from our communities to accept the New World Order.
CONCLUSION
Pubs are being taxed to extinction. Brits cannot take part in their
communities. Clearly they want us sitting at home in front of the TV,
rather than talking to people.
The War on Pubs is intended to weaken political resistance. Pubs are
the last places in Britain where men get together and talk. In times of
social turmoil, they act as dens of revolt.
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Report by the British Beer and Pub Association
You can no longer smoke at British pubs. This wouldn't be a bad thing if the pubs were full of non-smokers. That's not happening. When governments can declare private property 'public space' and enforce no smoking zones you get the destruction of pubs, restaurants and societies. Now British pubs smell of sweat, old men, old dogs and urine. Nice!
Same thing is happening in Australia. If you want to own a pub go to Tasmania. A couple of dollars and half of the 'Happy Birthday' song and it's yours! Once the anti-smokers have their way societies start dying. And it didn't stop the smokers. They just buy their alcohol from the supermarket and continue to smoke at home. I guess that their kids don't need a break from the second-hand smoke.
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