jason
04-07-2009, 08:26 AM
dont know if he is even around to celebrate.....
MPs and TV stars call for national beer day
Brewers representing the "best of British beers" yesterday called for a National Beer Day.
More than 200 MPs have backed a campaign to save the "great British pub".
Bob Russell tabled a parliamentary motion calling on the government to adopt a five-point plan to save the British pub, as TV presenters Melanie Sykes and Oz Clarke backed the call by the Campaign for Real Ale (Camara) and the Independent Family Brewers of Britain (IFBB) for yesterday to be recognised as National Beer Day.
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The Liberal Democrat MP for Colchester said traditional public houses were being "unfairly priced out of the market while supermarkets offer cheap deals without the level of restrictions and responsibilities required" by licensees of pubs.
A total of 202 MPs, including LibDem deputy leader Vince Cable, former leader Menzies Campbell and the party's home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne, backed the Commons early day motion which comes at the start of National Cask Ale Week.
Labour MP Kim Howells and Tory MP Ann Widdecombe also backed the motion.
In his motion, Mr Russell said five pubs were closing down in the UK every day, with beer sales in pubs at their lowest level for nearly 40 years. He said planned tax rises "will place traditional public houses at even greater risk of closing down".
LINK (http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.2500269.0.MPs_and_TV_stars_call_for_na tional_beer_day.php)
MPs and TV stars call for national beer day
Brewers representing the "best of British beers" yesterday called for a National Beer Day.
More than 200 MPs have backed a campaign to save the "great British pub".
Bob Russell tabled a parliamentary motion calling on the government to adopt a five-point plan to save the British pub, as TV presenters Melanie Sykes and Oz Clarke backed the call by the Campaign for Real Ale (Camara) and the Independent Family Brewers of Britain (IFBB) for yesterday to be recognised as National Beer Day.
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The Liberal Democrat MP for Colchester said traditional public houses were being "unfairly priced out of the market while supermarkets offer cheap deals without the level of restrictions and responsibilities required" by licensees of pubs.
A total of 202 MPs, including LibDem deputy leader Vince Cable, former leader Menzies Campbell and the party's home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne, backed the Commons early day motion which comes at the start of National Cask Ale Week.
Labour MP Kim Howells and Tory MP Ann Widdecombe also backed the motion.
In his motion, Mr Russell said five pubs were closing down in the UK every day, with beer sales in pubs at their lowest level for nearly 40 years. He said planned tax rises "will place traditional public houses at even greater risk of closing down".
LINK (http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.2500269.0.MPs_and_TV_stars_call_for_na tional_beer_day.php)