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How comes I can go to Spain and buy a beer in the supermarket for less that 30p! Even a four pack for less than £1.20?
This is equivalent to the £3.99 on average I spend here!
Why?
Don’t tell me it’s tax. It’s greed by the breweries who think we are dumb enough to blame the greedy chancellor for everything.
Tax beyond the wildest imagination at 100% would mean it would equal £2.40, so don’t blame it all on number 11, look behind the greedy breweries lies!
Last month I wrote to one of the biggest of the breweries about this and low and behold they ignored the basis of my letter and wrote back saying it was mainly due to the tax that my pint cost more, plus also the UK market is smaller than the European! What a load of rubbish that is! Spain, Italy, France are all similar size markets to our own.
The funniest point raised in their letter I have saved to last! They actually claim that they believe the price differential here encourages healthy and sensible drinking, as id to suggest they have our health and well being at heart.
Have you ever heard such a load of old rubbish!
I reckon we should start brewing at home, that would shaft their profit margins!
Mr Neil Painter - Doncaster
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