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    Well as expected Georgie did nothing about the beer duty escalator, he hardly mentioned it in fact, but he did mange to fool a lot of the medja with his slight of hand by saying "no plans to change my predecessors alcohol duty plans". Of course this was widely reported as "No Change" until the error was pointed out. George spent more time making a lame joke about Wallace and Grommit than he did on his attack on brewers, pubs and drinkers. Pro-industry my arse.

    I heard Tim Martin tongue lashed the beeb for their sloppy reporting, it's now been corrected on their website.

    Brewers and Publicans everywhere are writhing in pain even though we knew it was coming. This one is typical


    The duty rise is from 26th March.



    PS about 2500 people have signed the epetition since the budget non-announcement
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    Sad to say, whatever the party in power, it always comes down to tax on beer, fags & petrol. Often spun as something else, in this case fag tax as "Health"

    No longer a smoker BTW, price increases do work, I stopped at 3 / 6d a packet of twenty. I think it is around £7 now

    I suspect the booze increase will further reduce consumption, we all have price limits in reality
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    Quote Originally Posted by hondo View Post
    Utter rubbish, it calculates the increase on a pint of beer as 2.2p, the most optimistic forecast is 5p a pint.

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    Ministers want to move towards a single tax allowance for those of working age and the retired, having set a goal of raising tax allowances for under-65s to £10,000 by 2015

    That bit out of your link means us pensioners will have tax allowance frozen for 14/15 as well as 13/14.

    My son had a quote that fits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gillhalfpint View Post
    Politicians and nappies should be changed for the same reason.
    Very good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gillhalfpint View Post
    Ministers want to move towards a single tax allowance for those of working age and the retired, having set a goal of raising tax allowances for under-65s to £10,000 by 2015

    That bit out of your link means us pensioners will have tax allowance frozen for 14/15 as well as 13/14.
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    As someone who follows politics with a semi-keen eye, I can confidently predict we'll be stuck with the beer duty escalator until it runs its course (2014 is it?)...which is around the time of the next election presuming the coalition govt holds out (which I suspect it will). Darling originally planned it to run until 2012 but Gideon thought it was such a whizzo idea he extended it by two years. Most people south of Birmingham will be on a £4 pint outside of JDW by then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quinno View Post
    As someone who follows politics with a semi-keen eye, I can confidently predict we'll be stuck with the beer duty escalator until it runs its course (2014 is it?)...which is around the time of the next election presuming the coalition govt holds out (which I suspect it will). Darling originally planned it to run until 2012 but Gideon thought it was such a whizzo idea he extended it by two years. Most people south of Birmingham will be on a £4 pint outside of JDW by then.
    I wish It was still £4 now its around £4 20 to £4.50 for anything decent in most local Pubs around here even Gk IPA is £3.95 and thats the absolute cheapest you will find locally.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alesonly View Post
    even Gk IPA is £3.95 and thats the absolute cheapest you will find locally.
    that's a shocker,enough to drive a man to drink.

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