Posted: 15 May 2013 05:00 PM PDT

 

Blackpool Council has confirmed its proposals to introduce an Early Morning Restriction Order (EMRO) and intends to consult formally on the adoption of an EMRO, the second council to do so following on from Hartlepool who rejected the idea at a hearing last week.

According to the Council website, police evidence previously put forward in support of an EMRO purported to show that:

• Alcohol associated crime, NHS and Local Authority services, as well as the cost of lost workforce productivity costs taxpayers more than £3 billion per year in the North West;
• One in four people in the North West are drinking at levels which pose considerable risk to their health and wellbeing;
• 48 per cent of all rape offences in Blackpool are alcohol-related;
• 47 per cent of all domestic violence is alcohol-related;
• 41 per cent of all assaults are alcohol-related;
• 37 per cent of all violent crime is alcohol-related;
• 28 per cent of all sexual offences are alcohol-related; and
• Alcohol-related violent crime is showing a significant upward trend post 3am.

This (and other evidence in support) will need careful scrutiny – and we anticipate that as with Hartlepool, we will be instructed to engage in this process of consultation. There is already a wide body of opinion which believes that the adoption of an EMRO will have a profound adverse impact on the night time economy in Blackpool. At present there are no confirmed dates however, having spoken to the Licensing Authority today it would appear that the intention is to start consultation on or around the 5 June 2013 with the Licensing Committee hearing for determination on the 4 or 5 September 2013 and if required full Council approval on 18 September 2013.

At present there is no detail on the Council’s website as to the consultation but as soon as this is posted we will update you. If the proposed timescales are achieved the EMRO could be in place before the famous Blackpool illuminations are switched on this year!

 

 

Posted: 15 May 2013 05:00 PM PDT

• Traditional Public Houses with Garden and 60 space car park
• town and suburban locations with high popluation densities
• 90 covers plus
• Reasonably good demographics
• Tied leases/ tenancies are not a barrier to their success

A long term sustainable family run operation which wants partnership with their landlord. Almond have funding available for refurbishment and investment. Their local reputation is well deserved and should provide immediate trading improvement to pubs which have lost their way.

How good is their concept?

Almond Pubs were finalists in the Publican Awards for the family pub category and winners of the Star Pub and Bar Awards for best food pub.

Please click here to view the requirement pdf or call Chris on 07889395771

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For people that run Pubs

Fair Deal For Your Local

2:23am May 14

We need your help please to keep the profile of the Fair Deal For Your Local campaign high and ever present. We have one month left of the pubco consultation period and it’s really important that everyone takes part.

Can everyone please go to the Fair Deal For Your Local page and “like” it.

https://www.facebook.com/peterbradley99?ref=tn_tnmn#!/FairDealForYourLocal

It’s important that the page has lots of “likers”. There are currently less than 400. We need to make sure everyone knows what is going on as there will be things coming up that you can ALL take part in. We want to show the govt (especially the Tories!!) and the industry (especially the pubcos!!) that there is lots of interest and support for the campaign and that we are an active force with an active voice and we want change!

If you would like more information to help you with campaigning you can get a campaign pack at this link:

http://pubaliciouspubs.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/fair-deal-for-your-local-campaign-pack/

Please add a Fair Deal For Your Local twibbon to your profile pic show that you support the campaign.

http://twibbon.com/support/fairdeal4yourlocal

Please follow Fair Deal for Your Local on twitter. We will soon organise a specific time where we want all supporters to tweet and retweet posts with the hashtag #fairdeal4yourlocal so that we start trending on twitter and draw mass attention to the campaign.

Please also sign up to the Fair Deal For Your Local website:

http://www.fairdealforyourlocal.com/

Links to the Government consultation on pubco reforms are available on the FDFYL website and you can send in your own submission too. It is VITAL that people participate, whether you are current or former pubco tenants. EVERY piece of information and evidence you can supply on how you are being, or were, treated by your pubco is essential. We have fought for a chance to change things for years. We have now got our consultation. We have earned our place at the table. We cannot let this opportunity pass us by as we have ALL been asking for years for the chance to change how we have been treated. This is the time. We must not fail now. We cannot and must not get to the end of this consultation process and hear Ministers say “we didn’t get enough evidence from tenants”. If you have a story to tell, send it in. If you’re already out of your pub due to mistreatment by the pubco, now is the time to get even. You have nothing to lose. If you’re still in your pub and you are struggling, now is the time to speak up – we are in this together. If you prefer to make your submission anonymously then do so, but please, please send in your information to the consultation. Please do not let this opportunity for pubco reform become a missed opportunity.

Please send your submissions to Vince Cable at the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills on the following email address: enquiry.enquiry@bis.gsi.gov.uk

If you want to be part of this golden opportunity to change things, please get involved.

There are lots of things that we can all do. Thank you to everyone who has already contributed. If you haven’t had a chance to do anything yet please do it now. Do all, or do some, but please take part. Thank you.

Running a Leased Pub from a Pub Co.

The lighter side of confrontation, by Robert Sayles.

My BDM is a Vampire! My mate Len rang me last week. He’d sent a grievance to PICAS a few weeks earlier and had just received feedback. It seemed that before his case could be heard, ‘all avenues of reconciliation had to be explored’. With that in mind, a meeting had been scheduled with the BDM. Len asked me if I’d pop along to offer a bit of moral support. http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Opinion/Robert-Sayles/My-BDM-is-a-Vampire ..

It may seem crazy, but yet again another pile of emails hit my computer from people that say they believed what the BDM/BRM told them, when taking a lease or tenancy.

The company, said the BDM/BRM did not have the authority to make these statements, a fat lot of good that does for the new tenants, who are hung out to dry, and on schedule to lose a pile of money for upgrading the place and no compensation.

I have said it so many times, get a small pocket tape recorder for all conversations with any employee or director of the Pub owning company.

If they say turn it off, refuse, pointing out that you need to record everything, if they still refuse to accept the converstaion being recorded walk away from the company, if you haven’t signed already.

Sadly, the drawn out legal system drives everyone, bar the Pub Co’s to distraction.

The Pub Co’s know that the pr0cess of buying an inn or pub is slow, the would be lessee has invariably massive domestic pressure exerted on them, they have sold their home and are living in temporary accommodation, the agreed completion date has gone past, what do you do?

Concede the points that have not been confirmed and take a chance, “DON’T”.

Those conceded points may be vital to your business, the Pub Co’s know you will concede because of mostly domestic pressure.

I made that mistake once, never again, I always have some rented accommodation that I can use, even if it costs me £5K, the pressure of making a hasty decision can cost you £50K.

You have to get every point confirmed in writing or on tape with a witness ideally when you take a tenancy, buy a lease or freehold Inn, Pub, Bistro or Restaurant.

People selling small businesses don’t lie, they just don’t give out the unacceptable truth about the business in far too many cases, BDM’s/BRM’s are under company pressure to let a vacant business and many know that they will get full corporate backing on issues that suit the Pub Co and a stonewall and denials on anything said that doesn’t suit them, fortunately there are some honest companies but they are getting progressively less.

Potboy (South)

John Gaunt and Partners latest news, Late Night Levy

Minimum pricing, Queens Speech comment. 

York – Late Night Levy consultation to be launched Posted: 07 May 2013 05:00 PM PDT York City Council last night resolved to launch a formal consultation on the possible adoption of a LNL; this would affect all premises authorise to trade after 12.00 midnight. We will update further when more detail is known. Newcastle have recently concluded a consultation on a levy (to which we responded) – and the outcome of which is awaited.

Minimum pricing developments both sides of the border? Posted: 07 May 2013 05:00 PM PDT   England & Wales: Queen’s speech: No measures for alcohol and cigarette restrictions No new laws have been set out by the Queen at the State Opening of Parliament in relation to alcohol and cigarette restrictions with immigration stealing centre stage. This has led to speculation that minimum pricing in relation to alcohol will not be pursued by the government. However, Jeremy Hunt speaking on Radio 4′s Today Programme has insisted no final decisions have been made “Just because something is not in the Queen’s speech does not mean the government can’t bring it forward as law, but we have not made a decision,” He also went on to say that the ongoing legal challenge to an alcohol pricing law in Scotland, as reported below, meant that it “wasn’t possible for us to consider what course of action to do” in time for Wednesday’s speech.   Scotland: Minimum Unit Pricing – SWA to appeal decision The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has announced that it will be appealing the recent decision by a Court of Session which deemed the proposed 50p per unit minimum alcohol pricing (MUP) legislation in Scotland legal. On 3 May 2013 Lord Doherty refused the petition, holding that the Act was not outside the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament; and that the proposed Order setting a minimum price was within devolved competence and within the powers of the Scottish Ministers. Click here to link to the full Opinion. Gavin Hewitt, chief executive of the Scotch Whisky Association, said: “We are disappointed our petition for judicial review has been refused. We are surprised at the ruling in light of 30 years of European case law on MUP. We will be appealing against this decision and we remain confident of our position. “The view from Europe is very different to that expressed by the court and we are not alone in having concerns about the legality of MUP. We are joined in our legal action by spiritsEUROPE and Comite Vins. The European Commission and more than 10 member states have expressed their concerns that MUP contravenes European Union trading rules and their opposition to the Scottish proposals. “We have consistently opposed MUP so our decision to appeal should not come as a surprise. The Scottish Government has agreed to not introduce MUP until the legal process, including appeals, is complete.”

Posted: 06 May 2013 05:00 PM PDT

Smoking bans KILL businesses-FACT

Yep, there it is folks, the headline we’ve all been waiting for: PPP on PP !

People Power Piddle on Plain Packaging

Cameron has pulled this idiotic idea from next weeks Queens speech as he finally starts to grasp the concept that people simply aren’t happy with what he and his chummy chums in Westminster are doing. I think that he has finally concluded that he and his diminishing ‘loyal’ followers are not only losing the plot and losing Britain to the EU masterdons but losing supporters at ground floor level by the hundreds. Maybe these local council elections will tell us that the departures are now by the thousands instead! I think that they will. Guido certainly thinks so as he has been galloping round London availing himself of even money UKIP getting 50 seats-and I happen to think that he is bang on the button too.

OK, so the report was in the Sun, but they do have an ear close to the political ground and friend Snowdon has also picked up on this straight away and quotes ““Plain packaging may or may not be a good idea, but it’s nothing to do with the Government’s key purpose. The PM is determined to strip down everything we do so we can concentrate all our efforts on voters’ essentials. That means growth, immigration and welfare reform.” ( does that also include getting rid of these disgraceful quangos then?) And does this now mean that the Chief Medical Lying Officer (professor Dame Sally Davies) is relieved from duties? After all, if she can’t tell the truth then she should not be in a position of power-c’mon Dave, kick this bitch out please!

  Now to Simple Simon that is a translation from “I think we’ve made a right codball of things so far chummy chums, so we had better do something the people actually want us to do!” If I’m wrong I apologise but I somehow don’t think I am for I am damned sure that  everybody’s friend ‘call me Dave’ has finally realised that the “party comprising of loonies and fruitcakes” has finally come to ‘bite him on his ass’! I forget where it was but yesterday some poll or other put “Nigels Nutters” on 22%-but why are they “Nutters”?

It seems to me that Mr Farage has the full backing of the British people when it comes to stopping the immigration rot, after all, most people nowadays, with a modicum of intelligence can see the colossal damage being done whilst we have Blairs contempt for this country openly displayed every time a fresh immigrant arrives!

 As my readers well know, I was never a political animal until 6 years ago but what I have seen in those 6 years disgusts me to the very core. I have lost faith in most politicians because they only seem to want to feather their own nests – and the law (?) well, dear oh dear me, the law has been completely corrupted in order to impress ‘smoke ban laws’ upon the people; even the innocent. The law is in place to give justice a basis upon which we all learn right from wrong, but not anymore as prosecutions regarding anything ‘smoking’ are dealt with in a completely different way. I remember one gem from a magistrate, ” I believe you are a very credible witness, but I believe that she (the EHO who was 88ft away from her victim at the time the allegations were made) is more credible”! Now how’s about that one folks? Never mind the old maxim ‘innocent until proven guilty’ or even ‘beyond reasonable doubt’, they have gone right out of the window since July 1st, 2007. In any sane court of law, this case would have been thrown out through lack of evidence-and there are more like this, believe me there are more!

But back to todays elections where all sane people can only hope that Camoron gets slaughtered and loses the proposed 500+ seats. All sane people can also hope that Ed the Millibrain also loses ‘x’ number of seats as he is another complete waste of space who sees us as part of some EU superpower and as for the Il-liberal un-dems, well, frankly, they don’t deserve any seats whatsoever as Clegg should simply be exterminated for being a complete pratt! I think that Chris Huhne is the best example of Cleggs failing party – locked away for the people’s safety!

So hopefully we shall see a big surge of the purple brigade as people do begin to see that this country has a way out of all this modern day lunacy where democracy is fast becoming a thing of the past and quangos hold ‘the powers that be’ to mental ransoms! Perhaps more than one party ought to check out the facts and the lies about tobacco & smoking!

Yesterday Mr Farage, head man of those so called loonies & fruitcakes stated that he would sort out the smoking ban which was both “silly and Illiberal”. Yet again the man hits the nail absolutely smack bang on the head! Today of course there will be uproar from the flying pigs brigade, no doubt headed by insidious Arnott-who should be spit roasted for what she and her cohorts have cost this country with their crooked science rampaging.

It works out, overall, at approximately £1/2bn per month for all this anti smoking tomfoolery yet just as many people smoke now as did when they started-give or take a few dozen I suppose. Now just think how much good all that money would have done our once proud & majestic NHS. I remember seeing an article in the Leicester Mercury where the head man of Leicester Hospitals was crying over where to find the next months wages for all the staff employed-I answered the article by suggesting he ring ‘Debs’ and ask her as it was her that was spending all the monies in one way or another (it wasn’t printed by the way). The hospitals (3 of them) needed to find £1m, Debs & Co were now costing the country £1/2bn per month, so as Nigel Farage says, it is a silly law (for people are ignoring it anyway and still smoking) and it IS totally illiberal. Something that Clegg never grasped in his early days when he could have made a difference and certainly secured confidence in his party from 15 million voters!

Without doubt Camoron has seen that he is well on his way out and he knows which ridiculously imposed law will eventually bankrupt this country, the man is not totally stupid despite his obvious appearance of being so. He also knows that if he pratts about anymore, not only is he going to lose 500+ local council seats he is going to lose council controls as well. Now what we need to hope for is an area where UKIP has a large following and can possibly gain control of the local council-there will be much ‘poo’ing of the panties’ in certain quarters if THAT happens because that will show, without a shadow of a doubt that the party of the “loonies & fruitcakes” have definitely arrived. Next stop Westminster!

On the subject of Westminster, let us just imagine that at the next general election and with present rates of ‘exchange’ amongst the parties and the general dissatisfaction of the ‘man on the street’ (who ‘call me Dave’ never bothered to talk to-the ignoramus!), what is so far fetched about the illib undems losing 15 seats, the EU friendly Labour mob losing 5 and the foundering Tories losing 15 seats too? I doubt the Greens would pick any up for they have proved to be a party full of nutters (not loonies mind, nor fruitcakes-just nutters) but you may find the odd independent copping for a seat which would leave the UKIP mob with the possibility of 30-34 seats in Westminster. Now that would shake the system up a bit!

May seem far fetched to many of you but why should the above events not happen-after all, the general public are now disillusioned with all three of the main parties and who can blame them? For those of you who think I’m crackers I’m sure that you’ll be happy to lay me a tenner at 10,000/1 – and I’ll ‘pay on’!

The Danes have finally seen sense and repealed their silly laws which saw a massive increase in cross border shopping and most EU countries have given their smokers some sort of leeway as they recocognise the financial importance of such people in their societies. Our governments do too but they are scared pantless to upset the quangos & the WHO. The last mentioned, by the way, are now attempting to pressure nations into exterminating their tobacco plantations so as to reduce the available amounts of this humble, natural plant that millions of humans seem to enjoy. It doesn’t matter to the WHO that entire nations will be pauperised, that’s not their problem, they just want tobacco eradicated-mind you, 40 years ago they said the same about illegal drugs!

The real beauty of todays elections is that this will give the people the opportunity to show Camoron that we always wanted ‘that referendum’ and that we would definitely opt OUT of that stinking pile of donkey plop known as the EU – after all, why would we want our banks raided just to keep some self imposed bunch of egomaniacs in the luxury they presently enjoy. What are they achieving whilst sitting in Brussels/Strasbourg exept angering the British people on a daily/weekly basis? At least David Cameron has, today, put the British people first by withdrawing that idiotic proposal of Plain Packaging for even he could see that to allow such after all the corrupt dealings by various MPs & lobby groups, the measure was deeply unpopular with the rank & file-not to mention of course that even more British jobs would be sacrificed for the sake of something that there is not one shred of evidence about!

Nice move Dave, but a bit late for today is the day that the UKIP surge really begins!

Phil

Note:- The UKIP surge has been far greater than any of the present Politicians had vaguely considered, but the issues that the majority of ordinary people have voiced, have been raised.

Why should we pay a fortune to finance the EU’s incompetence, all we need is a Free Trade Europe, why should we have the worst of Europe foisted on our country without reasonable control, we are delighted to have hard working honest immigrants that respect our laws, life style and integrate into our communities.

Why should we have fat too many senior staff in the NHS, who are not medical, the list is ever growing of quango’s and bureaucrats.

Sadly the EU is like the Eurovision Song Contest, a good concept initially, now it is tactical voting to screw the UK, if it was scrupulously fair and honest it would again be good, too many people have jumped on the Gravy Train of self interest and fat salaries with greater demands for money to vanish into a Black Hole of Incompetence.

Posted: 02 May 2013 05:00 PM PDT

The Court of Session in Edinburgh has determined that the minimum pricing measures proposed by the Scottish Government of 50p per unit, which were challenged by numerous bodies (including the Scotch Whisky Association), are “not incompatible with EU law”.

The Court is further reported to have said:

“It held that in so far as the measures had equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions on imports, they were justified on the grounds of the protection of the life and health of humans.”; and interestingly that

“The court was satisfied that it was unnecessary and inappropriate to refer any question of EU law to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling.”

The decision is still open for appeal.

Whether this judgment will influence the Coalition Government’s proposal to introduce a minimum unit price of 45p per unit in England and Wales remains to be seen.