 Tied landlords lease premises and are obliged to buy beer from the pub company |
Pub landlords are being forced out of business by high rents and inflated beer prices demanded by pub companies.
According to the GMB, in a union survey of 3,000 tied landlords, almost a third have debts of nearly £50,000, and pub companies make tied landlords pay twice as much for beer.
The British Beer and Pub Association claim tied landlords may pay more for beer, but do not need much start-up capital to enter the industry.
The association, which represents pub companies, said new guidelines will help tied landlords.
About half of the UK's 52,000 pubs are tied to pub companies, where they lease premises from the companies and are obliged to buy their beer from them at unrealistically high prices from which profit is difficult - and trade is being ruined.
Pub debt
The high price of beer in pubs, compared to the overly-cheap supermarkets, is literally driving thousands of landlords out of business and closing pubs right across the UK.
Cheesy suggests we all find a party comitted to halting this decline.
Ask yourself,
'Why would the Lib Lab Con want us all at home having a cheap beer in front of the telly instead of socialising in our local with our neighbours and friends?'
This is called social engineering, and it is deliberate.
http://news.bbc5.tv/story/brian-gerrish-state-nation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6oHHw5JYbI
Let's Yahoo search "pubs" with the name of all the political parties - and see if any of them care about the traditional British pub or have even bothered to give this issue any thought.