{"id":834783,"date":"2026-03-18T21:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/834783\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:06:16","slug":"boozers-face-cost-of-living-crisis-tough-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/834783\/","title":{"rendered":"Boozers Face Cost of Living Crisis Tough Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BROKEN BRITAIN \u2013 In the latest cruel twist of the never-ending, ever-upward-spiralling cost-of-living crisis, British drinkers have been forced to ration their alcohol intake to a single thimble\u2019s worth per week\u2014a government-approved unit now affectionately known as the \u201cMisery Measure.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With alcohol duty increasing again, particularly on anything that isn\u2019t a lukewarm pint of weak pub cider, the great British tradition of drowning one\u2019s sorrows is now officially out of budget. As a result, the UK\u2019s once-lively pubs are disappearing at an alarming rate, with an average of 18 closing every week since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an absolute outrage,\u201d lamented Barry Grumble, a 62-year-old former regular at The Dog &amp; Struggle in Suffolk. \u201cThe laaast time I went to the purb, a point of lager cost me more than moi gaaaas bill. I ordered a \u2019alf to save money, and the baaarman just laaaughed at me and handed me an empty shot glass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.suffolkgazette.com\/old-looking-man-refused-booze-at-esso\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"19414\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">With booze now an unaffordable luxury<\/a>, many Brits have taken drastic steps, including switching to home-brewed bathtub gin or attempting to ferment their own beer out of potatoes and despair. Meanwhile, landlords are reinventing their businesses, with one ex-publican in Manchester converting his bar into a \u201cPint Museum\u201d, where punters can pay to look at what beer used to be like.<\/p>\n<p>The government, in response, insists that these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suffolkgazette.com\/council-tax-axe-for-second-happiest-town-in-england\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"18450\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest tax hikes<\/a> and pub closures are actually good for the nation\u2019s health. \u201cYes, people can no longer afford to drink,\u201d said a Treasury spokesperson. \u201cBut on the bright side, neither can they afford to eat unhealthily or heat their homes, so it\u2019s really a win-win for public health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2014stone-cold sober and absolutely miserable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROKEN BRITAIN \u2013 In the latest cruel twist of the never-ending, ever-upward-spiralling cost-of-living crisis, British drinkers have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[15448,748,239358,393,4884,1144,15819,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-834783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-booze","tag-britain","tag-country-pubs","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-northern-ireland","tag-pub","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116252219023896130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}