Calls to ‘bring back’ Minister for Pubs to help save ‘beating heart of communities’ amid calls for tax rebates

6 comments

1. What are the odds this ends up being a purely symbolic gesture which does nothing to actually help the situation?

2. Pubs are gone, kids don’t drink and even when they do they ain’t paying £7 a pint. Outdated 18th century places imo, kinda irrelevant in a modern town/city outside of nostalgia

3. Most small businesses are struggling due to high taxes and costs. Why should we help pubs? They contribute to health problems which put strain on NHS.

4. It’s generally way cheaper to just buy alcohol yourself and do a pre-session at your house/accommodation before heading into the nearest city to go clubbing.

   Pubs can be good for smaller communities, but they’re no young adult’s first choice when they close before midnight and are filled with older men instead of young women.

5. Just subsidise at least one pub per village, treat it as a public good, free it from the market. Stops this endless cycle.

6. The industry was already well in decline for some of the more sensible reasons elaborated on in this thread (cultural shift, economics etc) but you could also throw the blanket ban’s on under 25’s the other year into that due to fears associated with the pandemic at the time.