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Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Beer Prices Rise 5.6%
Beer Prices in my local pub have risen by 5.6%. A pint of Tetleys bitter has gone up from £1.80 to £1.90, that's a whopping 10p. (When I were a lad, a pint cost 1s 10d in old money, that's 9p now)
Mr Blair tells us that inflation is only 1.3%. (Consumer Price Index in Feb 2004) What planet does he live on?
Where has this increase gone ?
The Chancellor has put 1p on a pint and when you add VAT to that (a tax on a tax!!!) that will go to 1.175p. This will, of course, be rounded up to 2p.
The remaining 8p will go to the publican, pubco and brewery.
Bear in mind that the brewing trade tells us that the reason beer is so much more expensive than on the continent is because of high taxes. Therefore the proportion of a pint that covers the cost of the beer is quite low. For the want of any factual figures lets say it's 50%. So the brewing trade has added 8p to their cost of 90p, that's a ginormous 8.9%.
Pubcos (century inns etc) and brewerys are just getting greedier and greedier. They are going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. We'll all end up motoring to bloody France to get our cheap 'beer' there.
Have a nice day.
Mr Blair tells us that inflation is only 1.3%. (Consumer Price Index in Feb 2004) What planet does he live on?
Where has this increase gone ?
The Chancellor has put 1p on a pint and when you add VAT to that (a tax on a tax!!!) that will go to 1.175p. This will, of course, be rounded up to 2p.
The remaining 8p will go to the publican, pubco and brewery.
Bear in mind that the brewing trade tells us that the reason beer is so much more expensive than on the continent is because of high taxes. Therefore the proportion of a pint that covers the cost of the beer is quite low. For the want of any factual figures lets say it's 50%. So the brewing trade has added 8p to their cost of 90p, that's a ginormous 8.9%.
Pubcos (century inns etc) and brewerys are just getting greedier and greedier. They are going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. We'll all end up motoring to bloody France to get our cheap 'beer' there.
Have a nice day.
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