Cheaper to drink petrol
According to a report in today's Daily Express, above-inflation tax increases will land large parts of this land with a £5 pint within four years.
Still, it's not as if we're likely to be raising many glasses to British gold medalists during the 2012 Olympics, is it?
There are times I seriously wonder whether the current government would really prefer us all to stay at home, refraining from any pleasurable vices whatsoever, reducing our brains to blancmange in front of the latest reality television series.
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Toby Jugg - A former newspaper reporter, Steve Green now works as a freelance journalist and technical writer. He first joined the Campaign for Real Ale in the mid-1980s and currentlyproduces a regular column for Solihull CAMRA in the Solihull Times, under the pseudonym "Toby Jugg".
The Govt only heavily taxes items it believes we can't live without: alcohol, cigarettes, petrol and the like. In any case, Govt policy is enough to drive us all to drink.