Plan to raise price of alcohol
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7944334.stm
You can buy bottles of wine for less than £4.50?
Seriously though, I realise that everything relating to being a human changes over time. One long chain of those changes mean that I can buy my dinner in the supermarket now and I don't have to go out and catch it. I am quite happy about that.
But I do like a drink and I do like going to the pub, so I feel a huge sense of loss to see the UK decide that it is the sort of place that wants to regulate these places into oblivion.
Here's the head of JD Wetherspoon's thoughts on the matter:
JD Wetherspoon blames tax for pubs calling time
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle5904097.ece
Should I just accept that going for a few beers was a pasttime of the common folk and it is about time that it was stopped?
Going for coffee is the way of the future (and in fact was what the merchant classes were doing a couple of hundred years ago), I just have to learn to live with that?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7944334.stm
The government's top medical adviser has drawn up plans for a minimum price for alcohol which would double the cost of some drinks in England.
Under the proposal from Sir Liam Donaldson, it has been reported that no drinks could be sold for less than 50 pence per unit of alcohol they contain.
It would mean most bottles of wine could not be sold for less than £4.50.
Under the proposal from Sir Liam Donaldson, it has been reported that no drinks could be sold for less than 50 pence per unit of alcohol they contain.
It would mean most bottles of wine could not be sold for less than £4.50.
Seriously though, I realise that everything relating to being a human changes over time. One long chain of those changes mean that I can buy my dinner in the supermarket now and I don't have to go out and catch it. I am quite happy about that.
But I do like a drink and I do like going to the pub, so I feel a huge sense of loss to see the UK decide that it is the sort of place that wants to regulate these places into oblivion.
Here's the head of JD Wetherspoon's thoughts on the matter:
JD Wetherspoon blames tax for pubs calling time
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle5904097.ece
The company said that it ....... was benefiting from its decision to open all its pubs for breakfast. It said that it was selling more than 700,000 breakfasts and coffees a week - more than many coffee shop chains.
Going for coffee is the way of the future (and in fact was what the merchant classes were doing a couple of hundred years ago), I just have to learn to live with that?
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