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TheSwanYork
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Award-winning community-focused pub, situated just outside York's historic city walls. We also own local free houses The Slip Inn and Volunteer Arms. Independence = choice and quality for the people! ❤️🍻 Chair: @campaignforpubs.bsky.social
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Jan 22
Pleased to re-enter civilisation on here.

I'll be posting nice stuff about lovely #pubs and #beer 🍻❤️, and horrid stuff about heinous pubcos 🤬.

Building pro-pub resistance at campaignforpubs.org.uk and your support would be particularly super! ✊

(Feed may also contain traces of music/politics.)
Campaign for Pubs
The Campaign for Pubs is the UK grassroots campaign speaking up for our pubs and campaigning to promote, support and protect our pubs.
campaignforpubs.org.uk
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · 21d
The #budget is coming so expect the global brewers & pubcos to ramp up their perennial self-serving nonsense about #beerduty.

Don't be conned. 1p off duty won't save a single pub. It'll just make corporations richer and more powerful.

Our new @campaignforpubs.bsky.social blog post explains all.
campaignforpubs.bsky.social Campaign for Pubs @campaignforpubs.bsky.social · 23d
Our world famous #pubs need support from Govt in the form of lower rates/NI reduction/VAT cut.

Cuts in #beerduty do NOT help pubs or #publicans but funnel MILLIONS of pounds to foreign brewers, offshore funds & #fatcat bosses💰

Read our #BeerDutyMyths blog ⬇️ campaignforpubs.org.uk/the-beer-dut...
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · 22d
Thanks @thecaterermag.bsky.social for requesting an opinion piece on last week's licensing reform furore.

Our sector deserve better than mere spin when so many #pubs & #hospitality businesses are gripped in an existential crisis.

@campaignforpubs.bsky.social

www.thecaterer.com/indepth/why-...
Why the government’s attempt to change pub opening hours is just spin
Labour’s attempt to gain the popular vote doesn’t address the real issues, says Paul Crossman of Campaign for Pubs
www.thecaterer.com
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Oct 1
I'm thinking just the same. Going to have to order a cask in now.
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Sep 30
Beautiful set from @modernnature.bsky.social tonight.
York is so lucky to have both @thecrescentyork.bsky.social and
@pleasepleaseyou.bsky.social
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Sep 29
Rather than doing all the good things quietly and all the shitty things loudly, maybe Labour should shout about the good things it's doing and stop doing the shitty things altogether instead.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Labour to reintroduce grants axed by Tories for poorest university students
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said universities shouldn't 'just be for the wealthy few' as she vowed to take action before the end of the Parliament
www.mirror.co.uk
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Campaign for Pubs @campaignforpubs.bsky.social · Sep 18
It’s Cask Ale Week! 18th to 28th September.

Enjoy the UK’s national drink in the best place…the #pub!

Support #caskale in #pubs, especially the UK’s many amazing independent breweries!

#caskaleweek #realale
#supportpubs #supportourpubs #backourbrewers
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Sep 12
So instead we see the last resort for a debt-laden pubco.

Good, profitable (just no longer profitable enough now that the tenants are doing ok!) pubs simply sold off, with the long-suffering tenants (who generate all the wealth) thrown in as little more than goods and chattels.
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Sep 12
Presumably this is because a Section 25 no fault eviction is not an option any time soon.

After all, that would be the normal way of dealing with a pesky tenant who has had the temerity to secure a Free of Tie deal and thus secure themself a fair income from their own business.
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Sep 12
Why would a pubco seek to flog off 23 #pub freeholds along with good long term tenants?

Surely not because these are fair Free of Tie leases which no longer allow the excessive profit extraction that underpins the entire over-leveraged tied pubco model..?
savills.co.uk/insight-and-op…
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Aug 19
You are not alone. 🍻
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Aug 16
A wonderful outcome for this gorgeous proper back street #pub.

Once at chronic risk of loss, it seems The Vine, Pithill has ended up in truly safe hands.

People still crave true #community locals, and #independent ownership is the absolute ideal.
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www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...
Traditional Stoke-on-Trent pub reopens for the first time since Covid
The Vine in Pittshill is open seven days a week
www.stokesentinel.co.uk
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Aug 12
Cheers Dave! 😊🍻
daveratkins.bsky.social daveratkins.bsky.social @daveratkins.bsky.social · Aug 7
Moved just up the street to another favourite York pub, the @theswanyork.bsky.social More quality cask beer available. Another great pub.
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Aug 4
It's a cracker. 🍻
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Jun 20
Truly wonderful photos of our pub and a lovely endorsement too.
Thanks so much Richard!
richardmortimer.bsky.social richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · Jun 20
@theswanyork.bsky.social
An absolutely superb pub, top notch
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Jun 20
And what utterly fab pictures they are, thank you so much.
When were they taken please?
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Jun 20
Exactly this. At @campaignforpubs.bsky.social we are trying hard to get this message across to the media and to the Govt.
It's a simple no cost UK growth win.
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Jun 19
Access to market is indeed a scandal.
And current suggestions to allow a single guest line go nowhere near far enough.
We need to prise our industry out of the vice-like grip of the #GreatBritishPubcoScam once and for all, and consign the tie itself to history.
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · Jun 6
Couldn't agree more!
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · May 29
Excellent and well-deserved swipe at the way the dead hand of corporatism consistently degrades even the most potentially special of pubs.
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · May 24
Sounds interesting Claire. 👍🍻
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · May 21
Cheers, I'll try to find that. 👍
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · May 21
Are there any more details about the meeting anywhere please?
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · May 21
Hmm. It all basically depends who was attending Matt.
No doubt SIBA will have been included for example, but they are now headed up by a dyed-in-the-wool pubco man.
(I had many online run-ins with him when I was still a tied Punch tenant.)
There's a revolving door in that BBPA orbit.
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · May 21
"Scabbling for scraps“ is absolutely right.
It's so obviously wrong, but successive Govt's keep falling for the narrative of the BBPA (and all those in its orbit) - whose constant job it is, of course, to lobby in defence of the anti-competitive status quo that so benefits their members.
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TheSwanYork @theswanyork.bsky.social · May 21
Good blog by @totalcurtis.bsky.social here.

Policy makers and the CMA cannot keep turning a blind eye to the anti-competitive state of the corporate-dominated #UK #beer and #pub market.
@campaignforpubs.bsky.social
geterbrewed.com/blog/2025/05/1…
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