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CIVILISATION AT RISK: The recession needs to step off

It’s one thing for banks, car giants and newspapers to fold during the global financial crisis, but another thing entirely for the English pub to be at risk. Even the LA Times is worried:

Every week, 39 alehouses call for “last orders” one final time, according to the British Beer and Pub Assn. All told, more than 2,000 taverns have shut down since March of last year, at a cost of 20,000 jobs.

Is the Australian pub also under threat from nanny-state policies like attacks on alco-pops and smoking bans?

It seems not.

A Perth mayor has demanded two beach-side pubs have their maximum number of patrons cut from 2000 to 500.

Even the current cap of 2000 has keen “rowdy” drinkers spilling out onto the street, hoping to get in. And that was a relatively quiet night…

Nation be proud.

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