Almost 1,000 pubs in Britain called last orders for the final time last year as the industry grapples with cost pressures and business rate hikes.People in the industry are calling on the Government to stem the tide of ‘crippling costs’ forcing publicans to lay off staff, up their prices or shut up shop.
UK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls said: ‘Pubs are being hit with a myriad of cost pressures at a time of unprecedented political uncertainty and unstable consumer confidence.
the MP's will do nothing as they never use PUBS unless it's for a photoshoot to show how average person they are they prefer to drink in the houses of commons private bar (seriously they have a posh pub)
Maybe when Brits have no place to drink Ale, they will figure out that Liberal over-regulation and High taxation doesn’t work...Remember the Stamp Act of 1765? You see where that got you....