Is it time to nationalise Pubs?

[cityhammer]

Re: Is it time to nationalise Pubs?

Increase the price of a can from a supermarket by £2/£3 and decrease the price of a pint in a pub by £2/£3.

Why?

[blue sky]

Re: Is it time to nationalise Pubs?

Let's allow WAG to run them so we can return to the dark ages of dry Sundays and restrictive drinking hours.....

Oh i miss the dash from the Butchers to the Travelers rest for that extra 30 mins on a Sunday

There’s no such thing as WAG any longer. It’s the Welsh Government. The institution is called the Senedd and has been for years.

[splott parker]

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Why?

Erm… it’d make going out to the pub more financially attractive. I’ve never seen the attraction of sitting on a settee, alone, drinking cans of beer.

[Heathblue]

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Youngsters drink much less than we did at their age generally.

They are generally penny pinching drinking cheap piss (I mean carling) in the house before going out and causing a nuisance in town.

[ToTaL ITK]

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Oh dear! not really hanging with the times are you. It's all about profit , not letting a bunch of piszheads getting cheap booze.
I agree with the social part of the argument, but society has changed and people will abuse it and become total beer wonkers

[MacAdder]

Re: Is it time to nationalise Pubs?

Let's allow WAG to run them so we can return to the dark ages of dry Sundays and restrictive drinking hours.....

Oh i miss the dash from the Butchers to the Travelers rest for that extra 30 mins on a Sunday

I would go back to the restricted drinking hours of yesteryear tomorrow.

All day drinking hours and government greed scuppered the local for good.

A few beers with your mates after a solid day's work letting off steam and putting the world to rights went a long way to preserving sanity, commonly known these days as mental health.

The lunatics have taken over the asylum!

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Pubs have been dying for years

Less people are drinking down the pubs and places that don't offer food in the lunchtime or even at night cannot survive on drink sales

The boozers have been full of boring old gits who prop up the bar but don't bring in much money compared to a few people having some food and few drinks

30 years ago pubs would survive with the regulars on a lunchtime or Sunday night playing darts or cards

But now that big groups of people , work nights , stag and hens etc are fading the extra money from the booze crew is the main source of income and it just isn't enough

You always get everyone making a fuss when a pub announces its closing down but where have these people been ?

If a pub is the centre of a community then the locals have got to use it or that's it

Village pubs have completely had it

[NinianOpinion1927]

Re: Is it time to nationalise Pubs?

Pubs have been dying for years

Less people are drinking down the pubs and places that don't offer food in the lunchtime or even at night cannot survive on drink sales

The boozers have been full of boring old gits who prop up the bar but don't bring in much money compared to a few people having some food and few drinks

30 years ago pubs would survive with the regulars on a lunchtime or Sunday night playing darts or cards

But now that big groups of people , work nights , stag and hens etc are fading the extra money from the booze crew is the main source of income and it just isn't enough

You always get everyone making a fuss when a pub announces its closing down but where have these people been ?

If a pub is the centre of a community then the locals have got to use it or that's it

Village pubs have completely had it

The beer prices are too high. Slash the taxes and the community can congregate again.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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The beer prices are too high. Slash the taxes and the community can congregate again.

Pubs have been in decline long before the current price hikes

[insider]

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It's funny because the new style real ale places aimed at the middle classes ie Pontcanna seemed to be popping up and doing OK even though they are pricey.

[Heathblue]

Re: Is it time to nationalise Pubs?

Pubs have been dying for years

Less people are drinking down the pubs and places that don't offer food in the lunchtime or even at night cannot survive on drink sales

The boozers have been full of boring old gits who prop up the bar but don't bring in much money compared to a few people having some food and few drinks

30 years ago pubs would survive with the regulars on a lunchtime or Sunday night playing darts or cards

But now that big groups of people , work nights , stag and hens etc are fading the extra money from the booze crew is the main source of income and it just isn't enough

You always get everyone making a fuss when a pub announces its closing down but where have these people been ?

If a pub is the centre of a community then the locals have got to use it or that's it

Village pubs have completely had it

I was latish home tonight, not sure where the train came from probably Abertawe, but with those who joined at Bridgend, it was like a travelling bar

[JamesWales]

Re: Is it time to nationalise Pubs?

Increase the price of a can from a supermarket by £2/£3 and decrease the price of a pint in a pub by £2/£3.

We can charge different amounts of tax on these now, so tax in pubs can be cheaper than super markets.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tax-cut-for-38000-british-pubs

[Tuerto]

Re: Is it time to nationalise Pubs?

Why throw copious amounts of liquid down your throat for hours on end when you can have a nasty 'Toot' habit? All the thirty somethings are on it.

[NinianOpinion1927]

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Why throw copious amounts of liquid down your throat for hours on end when you can have a nasty 'Toot' habit? All the thirty somethings are on it.

What's "toot"? Smoking heroin?