If, like myself, a high proportion of tramps and the Wurzels, your a cider drinker, then please join this inevitably futile Facebook 'petition'. This is in response to Alastair Darling's 10% increase in the duty on strong Cider products as revealed in his 2010 budget yesterday. It's a significant rise in comparison to tax increases on other alcoholic drinks which apparently levels out a long-term tax disparity. The people this will really effect are the small local producers of 'real' cider despite the rise clearly being aimed at the larger companies producing 'White Lightning' and alike, in effect, a completely separate market.
So join the group, sign the petition and fight the power!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=108529325839226&ref=search&sid=508054454.298915647..1
Downing street petition... http://bit.ly/9BCStp
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