DOWNLOAD THE SONG NOW FOR FREE & GET IT ON YOUR PUB JUKEBOX or SOUND SYSTEM!Hi, I’m Riff the landlord of Riffs Bar in Greatfield, Swindon.
Alistair Darling has raised taxes on beer by 4 pence a pint with annual increases of 2% above inflation year on year for the next four years.
This comes at a time when 27 pubs a week are closing due to the smoking ban and rising industry costs!
It’s time the country took action by barring Darling from all the pubs in the UK. I have joined forces with good friends of mine, The 2 Sick Monkeys to spread the word with the song BARRED FROM THE PUB....inspired by the classic "Banned From The Pubs" by Pete & The Test Tube Babies
Lets be United in saying.....
Oi DARLING......YOU’RE BARRED!
We want to get this song on every Pub JUKEBOX in the land!
RIFF AND THE 2 SICK MONKEYS
"Barred From The Pub"
Barred from the pub get out of this place, barred from the pub a government disgrace.
Barred from the pub get out of that door, barred from the pub wont pay no more.
Barred, barred, barred, cos you’re killing our trade, barred, barred, barred, no government aid.
Barred from the pub go Alistair go, barred from the pub can you have a drink? No!
Barred from the pub fag tax all gone, barred from the pub now beers the one.
Barred from the pubs that are going to ground barred from the pub kick us while we’re down.
Barred from the pub you slam with ease, barred from the pub time gentlemen please.
Lyrics: Tiggy York
I’ve also posted a BONUS track from my other band, The LISTENING DEVICE. It’s all about Tony Blair’s Legacy from Fox Hunting to the Smoking Ban!
LEGACY
The Listening Device
I saved the world today
You don’t think so?
Okay, some flawed intelligence
Took me down the wrong road
But I did all those things
For your protection
Like cameras on the motorway
I’m a straight kind of guy
Well you don’t need those freedoms
And I’ve my place in history
Oh satisfy my ego
Go put my statue in the dome
My statue in the dome
Put out that cigarette
There’s no smoking
And keep away those huntin’ dawgs
From fluffy little fox
Ooh Cherie, it’s driving me mad
Thinking ‘bout my legacy
Ooh Cherie, it’s making me sad
Thinking ‘bout my legacy
You know what it means to me
It means so much to me
You’re on CCTV
Mind your business
And go fill in your ID card
To remember who you are
Well you don’t need those freedoms
And I’ve my place in history
Oh satisfy my ego
I want my dome
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What is being said about the budget...
“This will escalate pub closures, already at record levels. And it will further depress beer sales which have sunk by a million pints a day over the past 12 months alone. Every single day, the Treasury is losing over £1million in beer taxes, while four pubs are closing. That trend will continue. This is a decision doomed to failure — bad for taxpayers, beer, pubs and bad for the Treasury as well.†- Rob Hayward, Chief Executive of the British Beer and Pub Association.
“The Chancellor has failed to recognise that well-run community pubs are the solution to Britain’s binge drinking problems. This budget will do nothing to stop binge drinking, but it will lead to pub closures on a huge scale, widen the gap between supermarket and pub prices and encourage smuggling and cross-border shopping. It’s a great big nail whacked ruthlessly into the coffin of the British pub.†- Mike Benner, Chief Executive of CAMRA.
"The government is punishing all beer drinkers rather than punishing the minority of drunken hooligans. Its policy is fuelling Britain’s binge-drinking problem by driving people away from beer, out of the pub into the arms of the deep discounting supermarkets." - Rob Hayward, Chief Executive of the British Beer and Pub Association
“It is no cause for celebration that British consumers will now pay more tax on wine than anyone else in the EU.†- Jeremy Beadles, Chief Executive of the Wines and Spirits Trade Association.
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