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EU crown ban: on-trade fight back
The on-trade has launched a campaign against the EU decision to remove the crown symbol from UK pint glasses. Nine of the leading brewing and pub companies have written a letter to the prime minister arguing against the “needless intrusion”.
The signatories include JD Wetherspoon’s Tim Martin, Giles Thorley of Punch Taverns and Anthony Fuller of Fuller, Smith & Turner. Collectively their pub assets are worth over £3 billion. The letter states: “This directive is yet another in a long line of examples of excessive interference from Brussels that only serve to undermine support for the EU among business leaders and the wider public.”
The logical conclusion of the “harmonisation” of Europe would seem to suggest that ultimately the British pint will be replaced by the dreaded continental 500ml glass. If this were to be the case, however, drinks business feels confident that it would spark extreme civil unrest and perhaps even revolution.