New bid to scale up the community pub model
What's happening to pubs in 2024 is damaging British society. As with everything else in this tragically broken society we've been watching crumble in disbelief, in plain sight, all around us, we've been lamenting 'the pubs' crisis' and 'the perfect storm for pubs', for decades. We need to take action. But how? Start with pubs.
The difference between pubs and everything else is that we can do something about pubs. What's happened to pubs in the last four decades is a case study in disaster capitalism. The pubs crisis is driven by aggressive, corrupt, financialised Rentier captalism. Commonly called unfettered greed.
The difference between the pubs' crisis and the rest of society though; while it seems we're impotent to do anything to arrest the disastrous shenanigans of governments serving as sycophantic, obedient acolytes to hedge and private equity deities, aides to relentless exploitation of the state, pubs are a different matter. The pub sector is now so broken it's vulnerable to transformation with a radical paradigm shifting ownership and operational model that will bring The Pub into the commons, for the benefit of the people, and future generations, in perpetuity, at scale. Oh, and at the same time we can kick start a National Trust for Pubs. Some background on laying the foundations for the future of pubs: Of the people, by the people, for the people.
Since the Beer Orders of 1989 35 years of concentrated, insatiable greed of hedge funded private equity ownership of OUR pub sector has ripped the heart and guts out of Britain's unique secular social construct, The Pub, at scale. People in the know call it the Great British Pubco Scam.
What has been a lamentable pubs' crisis people have perennially wrung their hands, bleated and done nothing about for decades, has now become genuinely existential.
The only pragmatic solution that will ever match the scale of this social crisis of community and Sense of Place is a national people powered movement specifically designed and professionally project managed for the purpose of #SavingBritainsPubs We need a People's Pub Partnership to bring pubs into the commons and create a National Trust for Pubs.
Since the Beer Orders of 1989 35 years of concentrated, insatiable greed of hedge funded private equity ownership of OUR pub sector has ripped the heart and guts out of Britain's unique secular social construct, The Pub, at scale. People in the know call it the Great British Pubco Scam.
What has been a lamentable pubs' crisis people have perennially wrung their hands, bleated and done nothing about for decades, has now become genuinely existential.
The only pragmatic solution that will ever match the scale of this social crisis of community and Sense of Place is a national people powered movement specifically designed and professionally project managed for the purpose of #SavingBritainsPubs We need a People's Pub Partnership to bring pubs into the commons and create a National Trust for Pubs.
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