A pub says pints will be 'pulled by candlelight' and TVs 'powered by generators' if necessary in a blunt cost of living crisis message to 'greedy' energy firms.
The expletive-laden message - posted on Twitter and Facebook by The Crown Inn in Middleton - has gone viral with more than 16,000 likes and many dozens of comments supporting the sentiment. Landlord, Kallum Nolan, told the Manchester Evening News later he was 'sick to death of working class communities being bullied by faceless corporate entities' and described pubs as the 'lifeblood' of communities.
The M.E.N. has already reported the fears for the future expressed by pub and restaurants over soaring energy price rises. The British Beer and Pub Association, UK Hospitality, Night-Time Industries Association, Music Venue Trust and The British Institute of Innkeeping jointly said rocketing costs were 'becoming a matter of existential emergency' and spoke of an average energy bill increasing by as much as 300 per cent.
