1P.per Pint

[Scylax]

Beer is to be 1p. per pint cheaper. This will certainly halt the closure of our pubs, even if wines ans spirits are to be considerably dearer. Won't it ?

[Bazile]

I'm not quite sure if your post is meant to be tongue in cheek or not .

I really cannot see what a penny off a pint is meant to do - i mean , look down the back of your settee and you'll probably find several pennies down there .

[Everhelpful]

I will be in 5 different Pubs tonight,all with different prices for a pint,so 1p isn't going to make any big difference.

[gingejbee]

Not really worried, as long as it's "one penny". Pet hate of mine is "one pee" or (as on BBC News) "one pence"!

[BlueToffee]

It's a sop to the working man from a posh Tory Boy!

He'd have been better off just saying that he wasn't increasing the tax on beer this budget.

[dave1948]

Im going out on Sunday in iew of this decrease with the intention of savig £1.00 but it may cost the NHS a bit more for my care

[rojash]

Certainly shows how the posh boys' minds work: "I say, working class chappie, here's a penny, buy yourself a beer and vote for me!"

[Everhelpful]

Too true,rojash,Too true.!!

[Scylax]

Yes, Bazile, tongue in both cheeks. A penny off the horrendous price of beer means that the cost is unchanged, at horrendous. Then to increase the price of all other drinks makes the generosity even more laughable. Pathetic ++

[pdq1]

Wouldn't this penny be better spent paying off our deficit?

[Gromit]

The 1p drop in duty is unlikely to be passed on to customers, being swallowed up instead by the brewers and landlords.

It won't create jobs. It won't save jobs. It won't stimulate any growth in the economy, but it did keep the bad news on the budget off the front pages, so mission accomplished.

[modeller]

He's made one huge mistake by underwriting morgage deposits.
That's what got us into mess to start with.
Houses are all overvalued by at least 20% and the only way we will get back to a stable market is for house prices to fall, which they have been doing slowly, and to insist on at least a
10% deposit. His scheme will push house prices up and will lead to further overall inflation.

[DaisyNonna]

Working man? What about working woman?
Especially the unpaid working woman who stays at home to give her children the best possible start in life.

[mikey4444]

Its a sprat to catch a mackerel. It might, just might, persuade ordinary working people to vote Tory again at the next election.

The NHS is collapsing around us, the rich people are getting richer, the dole queues are getting longer, especially if you are under 25, gas and electric bills are going through the roof, but at least a pint of beer is only £3.20 instead of £3.21.

Classic Tory manoeuvring !

[factor-fiction]

Also discussed here, mike
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1226988.html

[factor-fiction]

Sorry, scylax not mike!