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Please read this e-mail, and PASS IT ON to anyone who you think
may be interested - friends, local paper etc. etc. This is very
important!!

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 London] 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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* P A S S O N T H I S E M A I L !! *
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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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