In 1980 there were 69,000 Pubs in the UK

By 2006 the number was reduced to 58,200.

Over a period of 26 years this represented the loss of 16% of the total number of Pubs (0.6% per year)

2006 – 2009 was a different Story

During these short 3 years a total of 4,634 Pubs closed increasing the closure rate from 16% in 26 years to over 8% in just 3 years (2.7% per year).

We shouldn’t forget that the Government’s Smoking Ban in Pubs was introduced on 1st July 2007.

Not only are we loosing some of our favourite Local Pubs, but the Government has once again shot itself in the foot to appease a few thousand Wet Liberals and Religious Dickheads who oppose pubs.

The Exchequer is loosing in excess of 250 Million Pounds each year in taxes!

You may argue that the Government are recouping much of this from the increased alcohol sales in Supermarkets but this just isn’t reflected by Government figures.

So how many Pubs will remain by 2050?

Based entirely on the above figures that have been supplied by the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) when the much debated 2050 eventually arrives, the UK will boast fewer than 500 Pubs!

How much will a Pint cost in 2050?

If you believe the forecast figures produced by perfectly reputable organisations on the Internet, you’ll be told that a Pint will cost only an extra 6 Pence – but you don’t seriously believe this – do you?

The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) announced in February 2010 that we could expect the cost of a pint to be 4 POUNDS before the end of this year.

If we’re guestimating the price of a Pint in 40 years from now perhaps it would be logical to go back 40 years and check the cost.

I’m distraught!! A Pint of beer in 1970, the year before decimalisation was a penny less than 2 shillings or 10 Pence as we all know it now. but then the average weekly wage for men was only 28 Pounds a week.

The average weekly wage today is calculated at 440 Pounds a week.

Conclusions

1970 – Pint price (10 Pence) approximately 0.8% of the average wage

2010 – Pint price (4 Pounds) approx., 0.8% of the average wage.

2050 – Guestimated average wage will be an astonishing 6,908 Pounds.

2050 – Pint price (55 Pounds) approx., 0.8% of the average wage.

Before you burst out laughing, what reaction would you have received in 1970 if you’d told anyone that their average weekly wage of 28 Pounds would be 440 Pounds in 2010?

AND that instead of 10 Pence, they’d pay 4 Pounds for a much inferior Pint in 40 years time!!

The real reason Pubs are closing so quickly

Supermarkets have, over the past 40 years successfully put the majority of small shopkeepers out of business and made the UK Government’s own Milk Marketing Board defunct.

They then turned on the British Beef Industry that decided to export their produce rather than sell at a loss to the Supermarket chains.

Channel Island Tomato Growers were next with 200 of them being forced out of business – the supermarkets now buy from Spain and Portugal.

What makes you think that our Pubs weren’t next in line because I can assure you they have been for the past 4 years.

This was highlighted when the Government kicked up about the low cost of beer and lager sold in Supermarkets but did nothing about it other than make a deal with these huge Corporations that they would knock the Pubs’ “Happy Hour” on the head to damage the pub trade further.

Of course the ridiculous smoking ban also helped a great deal.

Supermarkets have everything you want under one roof – you buy your food, booze and tobacco and consume everything at home – these vast Corporations have the ear of each Government because they pay Billions in taxes every year and employ hundreds of thousands.

Does this sound like a Conspiracy?

Let me assure you – this doesn’t sound like any conspiracy – IT IS ONE!

You are the Public – You need to be controlled – You are slowly but surely being conditioned to conform.

Pubs and corner shops are places you meet / or have met to talk about stuff that matters to you – you soon won’t – which means fewer of you will be able to listen to different opinions other than what you’re spoon fed by the media that’s owned by large Corporations

Think about this because you really are being slowly conditioned to think how Government and large Corporations want you to – in fact Tony Blair and G.W. Bush spoke quite openly about this to close friends during 2001.

Incidentally, if you think I’m talking a load of crap – PROVE ME WRONG!