Pub Closures: The Beerage falls out with the Tory Government
The ‘Beerage’ has fallen out with the Government over its decision to make many pubs close for the foreseeable future around COVID-19 restrictions without any evidence as to why this should happen.
The ‘Beerage’ are historically brewers who support and donate money to the Tory Party. Signatories to the letter to the Government including breweries and pub companies such as Fullers, Greene King and Marstons that have done just that at recent Elections.
The letter (extracts below) argues that there is no logic to the Government’s decision, given the continued failure to provide evidence for it (the science if you like). There is of course, the logic of temperance. The fewer pubs that are open then (in theory)the less drinking goes on and that is a good thing full stop (for some people it might well be btw, I wouldn’t simply dismiss the point entirely).
However temperance historically is a cause of the Liberal Party and (in part) Labour. It seems like an odd thing for a Tory Government to pursue unless of course you grasp that under Johnson these are Tories with little concern for their historic roots or base.
The letter says: “The pub is clearly being singled out for exceptionally harsh and unjustified treatment and unless your government changes course, and soon, huge portions of this most British of institutions will simply not be there come the spring….
How can it be that people mixing in unregulated private homes is deemed safer than gathering in limited numbers in larger, regulated and ultimately Covid-secure venues like pubs? There is no logic to this decision.
Well chosen backdrop there. Orchard pig. Although an insult to pigs!
Gill