Germany thrash England in a Euro 2012 game of two halves
By: JimOldfield
June 26th, 2012
Stretching credibility beyond even the girth of Chancellor George Osborne’s cummerbund, the British Beer and Pub Association has produced a video… to celebrate England getting to the FINAL of Euro 2012!
The action takes place around the bar of the Dog & Duck, where our boys taken on the Germans.
And there’s bad news as usual – as the BBPA reveals how the dreaded Hun comes out on top once more… this time in the stakes of beer taxation
In the BBPA’s game of two halves, we win the footy final… but on the beer front, it’s the Germans who are as usual, well, unbeatable.
For the association reveals that we pay THIRTEEN times more beer tax on a pint than they do, along with TWELVE times more than the Spanish and NINE times more than the French!
The one-minute long YouTube movie highlights the effects of the hated British “Beer Escalator” tax, which Osborne refuses to abandon.
The beer duty escalator automatically raises beer tax by two per cent ABOVE the inflation rate every year.
It was introduced by the last Government in 2008, and we’re expected to put up with it until at least 2014.
This year, Mr Osborne rammed another five per cent on the tax – meaning it has rocketed by 42% since 2008. A THIRD of the cost of every British pint now goes straight into the taxman’s pocket.
Unless you’ve been living on Mars recently, you will know that the BBPA, CAMRA, the brewers’ association, SIBA and licensed retailers association, the ALMR have joined to fight the escalator, with a Save Your Pint campaign that incorporates huge e-petition to Parliament, demanding this scandal be properly debated in the House.
So far, more than 58,600 signatures have been added – but the organisers feel that 100,000 is the minimum number required before they can try to force a debate to lobby Osborne to ditch the escalator in next year’s budget.
So if you haven’t signed up yet, follow the links below.
Hand Pumped links
Save Your Pint homepage http://saveyourpint.co.uk
The e-petition: Sign the E-Petition Now
The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS2nVW0gUbk
