Did he? Well, anyway, the British Beer and Pub Association said that 2,000 pubs closed last year. Tax is 33.5 per cent. of the price of a pint of beer and drinking is lawful. I simply call for a fair tax. I do not want to see that mainstay of British society, the pub, go out of existence.
Whitsun Adjournment
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Featherstone
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 21 May 2009.
It occurred during Adjournment debate on Whitsun Adjournment.
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