Last Round for British Pubs? | ARTE.tv Documentary

Back in the 80's when I was in my 20's we "lived" in pubs. Beer was cheap enough, no TV, jukebox, people talking, the air often full of smoke, live music at weekends and sawdust on the floor. I hardly drink now but looking back, I'm glad to have experienced a social phenomenon which is sadly dieing out. Good memories ❤

Taxation Taxation Taxation . ☠️

The couple of times I've been unemployed I got rememployef in the pub

Haven't you realised a certain demographic in this country welcome the closure of pubs. Of course thats nothing to do with the closures though. 🤔

The people replacing us don’t drink and hence don’t go to pubs,they waste their lives away on Palestine marches every weekend instead.

VAT and the fact the government’s of UK don’t want us talking to each other.
They want us sat watching Eastenders drinking cheap booze from supermarkets, thinking the country’s doing ok.
They could have helped Pubs, that was our mosques so to speak.
Just Another major blow to UK culture 😡
Good luck to you Arron and the new baby.

Just too expensive now to go to the pub
About 7 years ago go I paid nearly £9 for 2 pints nearly fell off the stool

Ironically, Pub owners and their clientele tend to be fervent Tories who believe in the myth of a "free market," guess what? that means competition.

I’m afraid that pubs are FAR too expensive. I’m a shift sparky with three kids, I call in the local for two a week… rest of the time I drink Guinness though the old nitrosurge. It’s not that I can’t afford the odd night out, it’s just such a big hit, a good session costs as much as a weeks family shop! 🤷‍♂️

Broken country and will only get worse. Every pub should be protected but government won’t as not in their mandate for the country

Couldn't imagine walking into a pub full of women knitting! Hahahaha

Pub culture will never die

W spoon is cheap in general people drink less now, video games, cafes are more popular also

Seen olly reed in there one day

Good riddance - prices are disgusting. Tough shit and bad bye

At one time we had over 365 pubs in Oldham, many gone, very sad.

I’ll stick to weatherspoons

Blaming Russia for everything is lame and nonsense.
Globalists Klaus Schwab and his merry band of demons are setting and controlling everything for the peasants.
Remove the WEF and we have some hope

In the uk the cost of living has gone up a lot but wages have not

£4.50 for a pint of donkey piss 🤔

The high energy costs aren't due to the war in Ukraine, they're due to the vast sums of money being wasted on "green" energy sources that don't work. Over £200 billion has been squandered on renewables since 2010. All this wasted money has to be paid back somehow, and it's being funded by mostly hidden charges on our energy bills.

It’s all part of the slow motion demolition of western societies that’s being orchestrated by the globalist psychopaths..
It’s an absolute tragedy what’s happened - so many lovely old pubs gone forever…

Tanja is fit

Can't see what's Attractive about Drinking life wrecking Poison Britain has a Serious Alcohol Abuse Problem......I've seen the Dark side of Drinking been to too many Funerals Too........

Not a drinker and never was. Times change. Poverty stricken uk does not help.

what do you mean the war in ukraine is the cause of high energy costs load of bollocks

Taxed highly to lead to Islamification of the UK

The UK is in intensive care forever this time around. Sunak and his cronies have no clue.

I run a Victorian era pub in the North. If you’ve got a community you’ve got a pub. Do empathise though….

The gastro-pub has largely replaced the traditional pub. As I’m not a big drinker I’m all for these new places, generally much nicer atmosphere and descent food as opposed to boring sandwiches and crisps (chips) My area in London has a number of these and they all appear to be doing good business.

The old breweries operated on a 3% profit margin and owned most of the pubs, they functioned on the basis of scale. The government's former schoolmates thought they could make serious money if they could take over so they instructed the government to force the breweries to sell almost all their pubs (supposedly in the interests of 'competition', with the usual sniggering and tapping of the side of the nose in the corridors of power). The 'pub co's' took over, installed loud TVs and tried to attract youthful kamikaze drinkers prepared to pay extra for 'speciality' beers. The novelty wore off rather quickly and the pubs were increasingly operated by a dwindling numbers of super-large pub-co's but they remained unfriendly places, often changing over to being restaurants. The end result was considerable damage to the social fabric of the country with people forced out of the 'local' pub where they could talk and get to know their neighbours and ending up in group-think on-line pseudo communities. The long term effects of loosing this social forum are serious and destabilising. Being 'corporate' the pub cos are prone to 'enshitification' (see Wikipedia), the latest wheeze is to get in tenants (the people who run the pub) but lock them into a supply arrangement and then, year on year, raise the cost of the beer until the tenants go bust, then try and attract new tenants. We actually know a lot about the psychology behind 'corporate culture' and frankly it is not encouraging but it seems likely it will dominate in the future, crushing 'commerce' (family businesses with a stake in the local community/). The end result looks to be something akin to the mid-period medieval system. Historically that system is stable, if unpleasant, and is only likely to change following a major plague when people become valuable. Britain had its flaws, as does everywhere, but I shall miss it when its gone.

I was in finance back in the 80’s. I remember a then relatively new financing technique called securitisation. Basically a new company buys up hundreds of pubs. It finances it by selling the future cash flows from the pubs. The finance is serviced (i.e. interest paid) from the rent paid on the pubs. The financial engineers try to screw as much rent out of the pubs to make turn on the transaction. The pubs are just seen as income generating assets. The days of a couple renting premises at a reasonable rent from a reasonable landlord, selling beer at a reasonable price and everyone making a decent living are long gone. The financiers saw a way to screw more money out of the sector and have been merciless in doing so. Sadly, it is pretty much what we see in so much of our country today - just look at private equity leveraging their acquisitions of utilities, squeezing as much money out of them as possible and then letting them go bust or having the taxpayer rescue them. Weak governments and regulators are in the pockets of these businesses who lobby and fund their political campaigns. Basically the people in the UK are like cows which the corporate elites milk every day. From the perspective of someone who has been on the inside, it is very sad.

Should follow the Holland approach cannabis Caffe in to pubs

The big problem few want to admit. Our so called communities are so multi-cultural that we have little in common with each other, and many of those of we do have stuff in common with have lost all sense of decency, manners and general consideration for others, no wonder spending time in their company isn’t too appealing, especially when it’s so expensive.

Great documentary . Thanks

All part of the Islamification of Britain.

the pubs are screwed for the same reason most other businesses are screwed...political corruption and incompetance...greedy energy companies that have X10 their annual profits while the government let them...and the working from home crap that the government allowed since covid....add brexit to the mix and remove 2 million european customers and thats what you get....economic ruin

dont blame russia for defending their borders...british pubs have been closing for many years ... blame the british goverment

Go and check out your local British Legion. Anyone can join, and it's not just full of old men (not that there's anything wrong with old men.)
Much cheaper than the pub, and these places will end up the last man standing, IMO.

Same here in Germany....! 🙏

Shame about the Sun & Doves, used to DJ there many years ago

Energy prices shot up, not due to Ukraine war but people working from home, big offices shut so business rate for energy dropped so energy companies dumped the loss on the general public. Like everything prices rose due to people not using city centres...... Very very sad 🤬

Breweries don’t help. A friend of mine managed to revive a local pub, to the delight of locals but ended up closing after a year because the brewery’s prices and weird rules made it impossible to sustain the business despite them doing a roaring trade.

To be fair, you can still get a bog standard pint of Foster's, for example, for £4 a pint in inner London.

They’re closing because of the demographic change.

such an integral part of society, I think things will go to shit if there are no pubs

Some sympathy but not much. When they charge so much for food and drink. Granted costs have gone up, however pubs no longer sell basic pub food such as soup, cheese toasty, jacket potato, or a bacon butty or a ploughman’s. That’s what pubs used to sell before they thought themselves as restaurants. I don’t need a brioche bun with my burger. And really adding an extra spoon of pasta or one extra potatoes worth of chips would hardly make a difference to reducing overheads . Portion of chips for £5 you’re lucky if you get 10 chips in a glorified mini metal bucket. A potatoe must cost about 5p. And the number of times I have gone into a pub to get food and told no food available as no chef. Is it really that hard to heat up some lasagna or soup. And I notice most landlords still manage to have enough cash for a big German car. I am sure some are struggling but around this way I think they will just see how much they can keep charging and people keep paying.

Tax on alcohol is pushing the prices far too high

The energy costs have NOTHING to do with the war in Ukrain. It has to do with the stupid measures brought about by the current generation of extremely stupid, fascists politicians! We shall never forget this!