Memorandum submitted by Eddie Murphy
I have been in the licence trade for 30 years
and so much of the difficulty we are experiencing has been bought
about by diluted legislation from Parliament. When Lord Young
looked into our business his initial reaction was the same as
the BESC inquiry in that he was appalled and vowed to break the
hold on free trade. I can only assume then that the lobbyists
got to work on him and we ended up with a watered down version
that was immediately taken by the beerage and we were back to
square one. The very same has happened again this time. I assume
this as, once again, we are hearing of the thousands of happy
people running pubs for Punch and Enterprise. How are their low
cost entry and support packages are maintaining the ability to
compete with free trade outlets?
I now work as a consultant mainly for groups
in administration, the only pub I am involved in is free of tie
and very successful! It is not in my interest to see the tie abolished
but to once again see what I genuinely believe to be sincere politicians
being fed misinformation by the beerage is very sad!
I strongly suspect that if anyone ever reads
this it will be dismissed as the usual whinging from embittered
individuals which is very sad, if you are in a position to give
us a voice please help those thousands of people who desperately
need it!
4 November 2009
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