Scott!

Now I've seen everything! Seems legit too!

Forget the fuel dispute, could you live a whole day without beer. Act now

Fact 1 :
If you live in the UK, taxes add 66% to the price of your beer. In many
places, Beer is now over 200 pence per pint. That's nearly ?16 A GALLON.
For every ?10 you spend on a night out, you're giving the government
nearly an extra ?7 out of your own pocket!! For every three pints you buy
for yourself, you buy two pints for Gordon Brown. Mr Brown - BUY YOUR
OWN!!!

Fact 2 :
When the beer price was hiked in America last year, people got together.
NOBODY BOUGHT BEER FOR A DAY. The loss of revenue was crippling for some
of the big players. They rallied round and forced the prices down again.

Fact 3 :
Nearly ?10 Billion is sucked out of drinkers? pockets each year in tax.
You buy some of the planet's most expensive beer, but do you see that
money going back into the pubs? NO YOU DO NOT. A recent study pointed out
that most of Britain's pubs are up to 15 years beyond their structural
refurbishment date. Recently, many have been "done-up" on the cheap into
tacky Irish theme bars. Much of the tax on beer is spent on Schools, Roads
and Hospitals (see website).

Fact 4 :
The average household pays nearly ?500 per year in alcohol tax. [up to
?1000 in Hagley] That's nearly ?10 a week. Why should we, the ordinary
citizens, be targeted by this "poll tax in bars"???

Fact 5 :
Alcohol duty has little to do with health. A litre bottle of Whisky has
almost ?8 of tax, this works out at OVER ?35 a gallon!!! Meanwhile
methylated spirits is ludicrously cheap. Organic wine is taxed at EXACTLY
THE SAME RATE as non-organic - so where's the health discount, eh Mr
Brown????

Fact 6 :
Hotel companies are suffering - so is the whole tourism trade. When a pub
has to fill its bars with beer taxed as such a ridiculous rate, its
drinking price become so expensive that tourists take their business to
the continent - and with sky-high prices, who can blame them!!! That in
turn means a LOSS OF INCOME for our country.

Fact 7 :
Home Brew is not an option. Beer and wine kits require complex equipment,
heating and HOURS of your time for a product which doesn't reach the
standard the BRITISH DRINKER expects.

If the government wants people to move to home-brewing and away from
public houses they'll have a fight on their hands. The British Pub is OUR
CULTURAL HERITAGE, and we, the people of Britain, just won't stand for
this kind of Nanny State.

! ! ! S O A C T ! ! !

There is no major organisation that represents the British drinker when it
comes to matters of alcohol duty. The government are bleeding drinkers
dry. Why? BECAUSE THEY CAN. As long as public apathy continues, and we
keep paying ludicrous prices for our beer, the government will keep laying
on the tax.


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* Starting on Monday, September 18th 2000 *
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* BOYCOTT THE PUBS ON THE MONDAY OF EVERY WEEK *
* UNTIL THE GOVERNMENT ACTS AND CUTS THE TAX *
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* Don't buy any beer, wine or spirits. *
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barge

Sorry Scott.

If beer was only £2 a pint here in the City of London there would be a beer shortage as everyone would be buying double just in case.

Its more like £3 a pint or £24 a gallon.

Makes me want to start drinking SUL !!