The Campaign to have Alistair Darling Barred from every pub in the United Kingdom.

Alistair Darling has raised taxes on beer by 4 pence a pint with annual increases of 2% above inflation year on year for the next four years.

This comes at a time when 27 pubs a week are closing due to the smoking ban and rising industry costs.

“This will escalate pub closures, already at record levels. And it will further depress beer sales which have sunk by a million pints a day over the past 12 months alone. Every single day, the Treasury is losing over £1million in beer taxes, while four pubs are closing. That trend will continue. This is a decision doomed to failure — bad for taxpayers, beer, pubs and bad for the Treasury as well.” - Rob Hayward, Chief Executive of the British Beer and Pub Association.

“The Chancellor has failed to recognise that well-run community pubs are the solution to Britain’s binge drinking problems. This budget will do nothing to stop binge drinking, but it will lead to pub closures on a huge scale, widen the gap between supermarket and pub prices and encourage smuggling and cross-border shopping. It’s a great big nail whacked ruthlessly into the coffin of the British pub.” - Mike Benner, Chief Executive of CAMRA.

"The government is punishing all beer drinkers rather than punishing the minority of drunken hooligans. Its policy is fuelling Britain's binge-drinking problem by driving people away from beer, out of the pub into the arms of the deep discounting supermarkets." - Rob Hayward, Chief Executive of the British Beer and Pub Association

“It is no cause for celebration that British consumers will now pay more tax on wine than anyone else in the EU.” - Jeremy Beadles, Chief Executive of the Wines and Spirits Trade Association.

Please print off the following poster and display it in your local pub http://tinyurl.com/2e6rsz

UPDATE:

The Morning Advertiser has some further campaign posters http://tinyurl.com/3xzprm (read less)

The Campaign to have Alistair Darling Barred from every pub in the United Kingdom.

Alistair Darling has raised taxes on beer by 4 pence a pint with annual increases of 2% above inflation year on year for the next four years.

This comes at a time when 27 pubs a week are closing due to the smoking ban and rising industry costs.

“This will escalate pub closures, already at record levels. And it will further depress beer sales which have sunk by a million pints a day over the past 12 months... (read more)