Rise in Muslim population 'a major factor in pub closures'

[super jumbe]

The growing Muslim population is one of the main reasons for pubs closing, a Tory peer has said.

Lord Hodgson, of Astley Abbotts, a former director of the Midland brewer and pub company Marston?s, argued that moves to allow landlords tied to big firms to demand market rent-only agreements were misguided.

He said that ?socio-economic factors?, such as a growing number of teetotal Muslims living in Britain, played a much bigger role in the decline in pubs than ?rapacious owners?.

Ministers suffered their first legislative defeat in the Commons when MPs voted through a cross-party amendment to the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill by a majority of 25 which would allow tenants to opt out of being required to sell only alcohol provided by their pub company.

Business minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe said the Government would accept the principle of the amendment and seek to make it workable.

But Lord Hodgson said he was ?very disappointed? the Government was not going to consider overturning the Commons defeat.

The Tory peer said the issue was not as ?simple and straightforward? as MPs thought and said the pub sector was ?under serious strain? for other reasons.

?Twenty-five years ago, the company of which I was a director would have operated probably a dozen pubs in Kidderminster, the home of the carpet trade,? he said.

?The carpet trade has gone and there are three pubs left.

?In areas of Nottingham, Leicester, Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham the increase in the Muslim population, who don?t drink, leads to many pub closures.

http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/local-news/rise-muslim-population-a-major-8234823

[gmb45]

ffs what a load of PISH so its got nothing to do with a smoking ban and cheap supermarket beer, and the price of beer in most pubs at like ?2.50 - ?4 a pint for decent stuf

[super jumbe]

Absolute rubbish 5% Muslims in the country, the reason for pub closures is the Smoking Ban, cheap supermarket alcohol, next comment churches are closing down because Muslims do not go….

[Elric]

next comment churches are closing down because Muslims do not go….

i wouldnt be surprised if they end up buyin churches and turnin them into mosques

[ifred]

i wouldnt be surprised if they end up buyin churches and turnin them into mosques

Or kebab shops

[Meat-Head]

Rumour states if you dig a hole and download a dead pig, to it the Muslims won't go near the place, so more likely that its the pork scratchings on the bar.

Ffs typical mp, voting against something good for the people they represent, bit like saying tesco can only sell tesco branded products

[Meat-Head]

ON TOPIC

Was talking to Nosher earlier, that's Vics imganaty friend, said the main reason why pubs shutting is when Vic sings at karoke he clears the place, then nobody goes back and they go bust

[GastonJ]

Never read so much sh*t in my life. Blame the muslims for everything? If pubs are closing, and less people are drinking then that should mean less liver disease etc and so the NHS should need less funding, the police should need less funding. If that's the case why hasn't taxation gone down? Usual sh*t by a crap government to justify giving more money to subsidise companies with taxpayers money as usual ....

Lord Hodgson said

Twenty-five years ago, the company of which I was a director would have operated probably a dozen pubs in Kidderminster

and he likely still has mates in there who want some free money from the taxpayer. Not that an Tory Lord or MP would stoop to such things *spit* wonder what shares he has?

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts - UK Parliament

• Nova Capital Management (private equity)
• Bank of Ireland (banking)
• Royal Dutch Shell plc (oil)
• Whitbread plc (hotels and restaurants) <<--- There's cking surpise eh????
• AstraZeneca plc (pharmaceuticals)
• Barclays plc (banking)

More money for poor old banks next and upping the price the NHS pays for drugs?

[Meat-Head]

Does he have dk account, pm him link to thus thread

[rds60h]

i wouldnt be surprised if they end up buyin churches and turnin them into mosques

It's more than 10 years since the Synagogue in Luton was bought out and became a Mosque and Islamic Centre, and an old Church in the town centre is also an Islamic Advice Centre. So that has already been happening for years !

[Meat-Head]

Walk in eating bacon sarny and ask to use their bog

[garagetech]

It's more than 10 years since the Synagogue in Luton was bought out and became a Mosque and Islamic Centre, and an old Church in the town centre is also an Islamic Advice Centre. So that has already been happening for years !

Yes thats right it has already been happening for years only if people use their worship area and keep it busy then it wouldn't happen , some that i know are haunting!!!

Why dont they point towards the fact that more communal activities are required to fill these premises . Politicians dont care which way the public goes as long as there pockets are full

[Kalipo]

I agree with the story! not because its true but because it fuels the fire at UKIP HQ ...

Although this is not the Mirror or the Daily mail which distance themselves from UKIP they are unintentionally feeding them! eggcellent!

[Cod3waX]

Thats Total BS its the price of they charge for it that making them lose customers

[GastonJ]

Well you also need to remember that immigration is the reason the roads are full of cars and people are late for meetings

Nigel Farage has blamed high levels of immigration and the state of the M4 for missing a meet-the-leader event ahead of UKIP's first Welsh conference

"That is nothing to do with professionalism, what it does have to do with is a population that is going through the roof chiefly because of open-door immigration and the fact that the M4 is not as navigable as it used to be."

BBC News - Nigel Farage in UKIP event no-show due to 'immigration'

according to that ahole *shrug*