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As a Camra member and one of the 108,000 who signed the e-petition to scrap the beer duty escalator (Budget 2013, 21 March), I'm appalled that Tim Martin's Wetherspoon chain of 1,800 pubs increased the price of a pint by 6p on Monday. This is even more galling given Mr Martin's loud protestations against the escalator and his and Camra's mutual support during this campaign. It even appears he has grabbed the 1p tax reduction as well. Mr Martin's editorial in his glossy spring edition of Wetherspoon News goes to great lengths to encourage drinkers away from supermarkets by reducing beer prices in pubs and saving pub jobs. After this week's hypocrisy, I went to Tesco and bought a pint bottle of possibly the best beer in Britain, Adnam's Broadside, for £1.99, and walked past my local Wetherspoons on my way home to enjoy it. Nice timing, Mr Martin?
Royce Naylor
Manchester		As a Camra member and one of the 108,000 who signed the e-petition to scrap the beer duty escalator (Budget 2013, 21 March), I'm appalled that Tim Martin's Wetherspoon chain of 1,800 pubs increased the price of a pint by 6p on Monday. This is even more galling given Mr Martin's loud protestations against the escalator and his and Camra's mutual support during this campaign. It even appears he has grabbed the 1p tax reduction as well. Mr Martin's editorial in his glossy spring edition of Wetherspoon News goes to great lengths to encourage drinkers away from supermarkets by reducing beer prices in pubs and saving pub jobs. After this week's hypocrisy, I went to Tesco and bought a pint bottle of possibly the best beer in Britain, Adnam's Broadside, for £1.99, and walked past my local Wetherspoons on my way home to enjoy it. Nice timing, Mr Martin?
Royce Naylor
Manchester
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