GLC Posted 4 January 2009 Posted 4 January 2009 Health group angered by 99p pint Beer prices are going back to levels not seen since the 1980s A pub chain is cutting the price of a pint to 99p to cheer cash-strapped drinkers - but the move has sparked criticism from an alcohol charity. JD Wetherspoon, which operates 713 pubs across the UK, is offering "indefinite" reductions on some beer, bottled lager, wine and spirits, plus £2.99 meals. Health campaigners fear other pub chains could follow. Alcohol Concern says pricing drinks at 1989 levels could cause more people to drink too much and end up in hospital. Nicolay Sorensen, from the charity, said prices across the industry were already 65% lower in real terms than in 1980. "The number of alcohol-related hospital admissions is continuing to rise at an astonishing rate," he said, adding that treating drink-related illnesses costs the NHS £2.7bn per year. He said that by selling beer at 99p per pint, pubs were not acting responsibly. We are trying to stay in business, keep jobs in our sector and compete in a very competitive market John Hastings British Beer and Pub Association "The drinks industry isn't able to regulate itself responsibly and it's for the government to take action." But Mark Hastings, of the British Beer and Pub Association, said the 99p pint only applied to one brand of beer - Greene King IPA - in one chain of bars. Customers could stay at home and drink beer from supermarkets much more cheaply, whereas pubs offered a more responsible environment, he said. "We are trying to stay in business, keep jobs in our sector and compete in a very competitive market," said Mr Hastings. He said that with pubs closing at a rate of five per day, the sector had already lost 44,000 jobs. Wetherspoon's chief executive John Hutson said the company was helping people in the face of the economic downturn. "We believe that our new food and drink prices will allow people to enjoy a visit to a Wetherspoon pub without it costing them too much," he said.
DB11 Posted 4 January 2009 Posted 4 January 2009 Why do people devote their life to such a silly cause?
Nationwider Posted 4 January 2009 Posted 4 January 2009 IPA at 99p? Alcohol Concern are right to be, err, concerned. Not only will the NHS buckle under the increase in alcohol-ralated admissions, but cribbage elbow, beard damage and halitosis cases will go through the roof too. There'll be riot police stationed outside Weatherspoons' on pub quiz nights to deal with the aftermath of yet another tie-breaker stabbing? Have Alcohol Concern never been in a supermarket in the last ten years? Has the blanket advertising and sponsorship of TV programmes and sports events/teams by breweries passed them by? Have they not realised their own children drinking outside the convivial surrounds of Londis and Costcutter every Friday night? IPA at 99p. Jesus wept.
Fosse Boy Posted 4 January 2009 Posted 4 January 2009 If I want to drink, I will do. I know my limits, and stick to them (usually). It's up to individual people to drink responsibly and to their own limits, and if they can do it cheaply, then they should be allowed to do so. The price of pints doesn't cause violence and criminal idiocy in our town centres on a Friday or Saturday night, it's the personality and nature of the people drinking them that dictates that.
GLC Posted 4 January 2009 Author Posted 4 January 2009 If I want to drink, I will do. I know my limits, and stick to them (usually). It's up to individual people to drink responsibly and to their own limits, and if they can do it cheaply, then they should be allowed to do so. The price of pints doesn't cause violence and criminal idiocy in our town centres on a Friday or Saturday night, it's the personality and nature of the people drinking them that dictates that. if your old enough to drink then you should be allowed to i know my limits, 99p a pint lovely
AoWW Posted 4 January 2009 Posted 4 January 2009 if your old enough to drink then you should be allowed toi know my limits, 99p a pint lovely But IPA??!!
Ultra Posted 4 January 2009 Posted 4 January 2009 Nothing wrong with the IPA in the Corn Exchange. I'm sure Thracian can confirm this..
Unabomber Posted 4 January 2009 Posted 4 January 2009 Well I won't be complaining living a 25 and 60 second walk respectively from a couple of Wetherspoons at Uni.
Ross-Kemp Posted 4 January 2009 Posted 4 January 2009 The 2 pubs that do this in Leicester town both don't like me <_< High cross always asks for Id And i'm barred from The Last Plant
AoWW Posted 4 January 2009 Posted 4 January 2009 The 2 pubs that do this in Leicester town both don't like me <_< High cross always asks for Id And i'm barred from The Last Plant You surprise me.
AoWW Posted 4 January 2009 Posted 4 January 2009 You know i'm a good boy Oh, you are indeed good. Positively angelic.
Ultra Posted 4 January 2009 Posted 4 January 2009 The 2 pubs that do this in Leicester town both don't like me <_< High cross always asks for Id And i'm barred from The Last Plant Well you'll have to drink in the Corn Exchange then, unless you're barred from there too..
Thracian Posted 4 January 2009 Posted 4 January 2009 Nothing wrong with the IPA in the Corn Exchange.I'm sure Thracian can confirm this.. He can indeed and he'll be drinking a toast to A Fox in Essex on this. I wonder if Wetherspoons have ever thought of running the country!
Fosse Boy Posted 4 January 2009 Posted 4 January 2009 He can indeed and he'll be drinking a toast to A Fox in Essex on this. I wonder if Wetherspoons have ever thought of running the country! Cheers!
Maybes Posted 5 January 2009 Posted 5 January 2009 99p a pint?! Lovely stuff. When you're old enough Tom. Feb is it?
Guest Bilo Posted 5 January 2009 Posted 5 January 2009 He can indeed and he'll be drinking a toast to A Fox in Essex on this. I wonder if Wetherspoons have ever thought of running the country! John Hutson for Number 10!!!!
Jon the Hat Posted 5 January 2009 Posted 5 January 2009 I wonder if Wetherspoons have ever thought of running the country! Take less money from the ordinary man so he can enjoy himself more.... Hmmm. Sounds like a tax policy in waiting to me.
Floating Fox Posted 5 January 2009 Posted 5 January 2009 When the fook are spoons gonna do this? Went down there t'other day and there was nothing of the sort Went up the road £2 a pint...not bad me thought.
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