Basic Human Right

A Basic Human Right: Cheap Beer!
By Ashley Cotter-Cairns

It's been said that offering private healthcare in a country with a free public system of health erodes the value of fairness for all. But what about beer? With the rise of premium home-delivered beer baskets, imported speciality beers and high-end draught commanding a premium in the pubs, is the basic Human right of a cheap beer under threat?

Let's examine the evils of the beer barons one by one and try to find a global solution that will help all of us to defend our rights to a swift pint.

Cover charges

Designed to keep out undesirables from trendy bars, the evil of cover charges drives honest, hard-working cheap beer drinkers away from city centres, forcing them towards suburban watering holes. Here, they are preyed upon by violent men and cheap women, until they seldom wake up sober, uninjured or aware of their exact location or sleeping partner.

Naturally, the UNOB wishes to preserve town centre public houses, homes from home where this poor, abused individual can find his own quiet corner to while away the hours with cheap beer pints and a newspaper, unafraid of unsolicited offers to fight or dance beneath an unfamiliar duvet.

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