CAMRA calls for tax u-turn to quell pub closures
Reports that the number of British pub closures has escalated to a staggering 36 per week -- more than five each day -- has prompted calls for immediate intervention by Downing Street to save the industry.
Mike Benner, Chief Executive of the Campaign for Real Ale, said: ""It is clear that the Government must take urgent action to save pubs from closure.
"Pubs are essential local services and the Government has a moral duty to protect them."
The first move should be a complete u-turn on new beer taxes, he added.
"It should start by announcing immediately that it will reverse its decision to increase beer duty in the next four budgets and that a review of alcohol taxes will be undertaken without delay."
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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".
I'm beginning to suspect the Govt wants to kill off the pub industry, so we'll all live until 110, keep working until we drop dead and help pay for their illegal wars.