What Publican readers say about the Daily Mail

• Dave Parker, the Shoulder of Mutton, Castleford, West Yorkshire​
  "I used to buy the Daily Mail but I have stopped now. It has been hyping this up out of all proportion."

Primoz Revill, Moss Cottage Hotel, Ripley, Derbyshire​
"Throw out the Daily Mail, if it cannot make it clear about what is saying. Throw it out. These newspapers will not be in my pub or hotel."

Denis Cook, the Horns, Watford​
"I am sick and tired of the Mail's jargon and inflamatory "reporting" of the changes. I run one of the busiest pubs in Watford - with a more "adult" crowd than the High Street bars. We have no problems and are pleased that we have the opportunity to stay open weekends until 1am rather than 1130pm. No one expected to ask, or get, "24 Hr Drinking" this was just the Daily Mail's way of selling more copies. Well they lost my weeks sales as I have stopped taking the Mail in - and have let them know too!"

Sarah Darling​
"They should get their facts straight before slating the trade."

Chris Powell, Katemba Inns​
"I have traded it in for the Times, not a bad read and going to stick with it!"

John Ellis, the Crown Inn, Oakengates, Telford​
"Responsible Pubs need to take a stand against irresponsible journalism!"

James Giles​
"The Mail's campaign is a disgrace and doesn't seem to be targeted at one of their prime sources of income: the supermarkets, who have quietly applied for 24 hour licences for the vast majority of their 24 hour stores.

"Given the price differential are we now going to see police vans outside Tesco at 3am on a Saturday morning?"

Mr Davies, the Saracen's Head, Hereford​
"I've been a reader of the Daily Mail for years, but now I'll switch to the Express or one of the local papers."

Julie Stamper​
"Boycotting the Daily Mail is an excellent thing to do. The whole pub trade needs to stand up to those who manipulate statistics and photographs to back up their own draconian views and unnecessarily encourage public concern."

Anthony Duggan​
"I am happy to assist with this campaign- well done The Publican! I have been horrified by the irresponsible, politically motivated nonsense being peddled by this 'newspaper' on the issue of licensing in the UK."

Stuart Keane, the Fox Inn, Wenn, near Shrewsbury​
"I don't want to pick up a newspaper and be slagged off every morning. At least eight out of 10 pubs are run responsibly."

Jason Seldon, the Manor Arms, Abberley Village, Worcestershire​
"The Daily Mail is the lowest of the low. We're not the only industry that it has started scaremongering stories about."

Pamela Buxton, the Monks Head, Snodland, Kent​
"I have read the paper for 40 years and I stopped buying it when it started this campaign"

Billy Brewer, the Bunch of Grapes in Newcastle Emlyn, Carmathernshire​
"I cancelled it 10 days ago...enough is enough."

Bernard O'Boyle, the Eurobar Hotel, Oxford​
"The Daily Mail has been our favourite daily newspaper, which we've bought for the customers and ourselves to read, since July 1979. But no longer, as we feel the paper is now anti pubs and publicans. Thank-you for giving us the chance to voice our concern over their biased campaign. Doesn't it realise it's the Supermarkets who are fueling the cheap drink drive?"

Ray Askew, Cheers bar in Rushden, Northamptonshire​
"I already boycotted the mail after its front page two weeks ago. Good on you for taking this up!"

Arthur Oates, the Crown in Chislehurst, Essex​
"The Daily Mail seems to be trying to convince people that all pubs will be open all day and all night all the time. What they are doing is, as usual, backing the Tories and trying to make the government's excellent idea seem stupid. I think we should have protest stickers to stick on any copies of the Daily Mail that we see lying around."

Mike Deakin, Babylon, Barnstaple​
"Liberalisation of the licensing laws is fundamentally the right idea. The clumsy way it's been done should not be further sabotaged by a bunch of uniformed, unelected and seemingly inebriated buunch of lazy journos. Otherwise we may all turn to drink - if we can still find one!"

Pam Watts, the King's Head, Norwich​
"Has the Daily Mail even asked publicans if they intend to open 24 /7? I doubt it."

Mark Price, Inn Group​
"I wonder how many newspaper editors will be in our pubs drinking and talking complete ****** after 11pm from November 24. Having worked in the Canary Wharf area for many years, I could name a few!"

Janice Booth, Red Rose Brewery​
"I have already sent an e-mail to the Daily Mail stating that after many years I am no longer buying the paper. The headlines that offended me were the ones stating that the taxpayer would have to pay for the new licences. The editorial stated in their opinion pubs should have to pay the cost. In which case why did I, as a true freehouse, have to spend my time and approx £1000 when the taxpayer is funding it."

Rob Moodie​
"If we, as licensees, don't have enough to worry about at the moment, without big newspapers attacking our livelihoods in order to make a few more quid in sales. Grow up people and report news, don't just make it up!!"

Paul Gould, ex-licensee, Cambridgeshire​
"Great newspapers reflect public opinion. Poor ones attempt to influence it with their own agendas. Despicable ones do that by distorting the facts."

Keith Wilson, the Theatre Royal, Winchester​
"The huge and overwhelming majority of publicans are thoughtful, considerate, responsible, law-abiding pillars of the local community. The same sadly cannot be said about journalists, content to make a living by lying and fabricating stories at every turn. Not including Publican journalists obviously..."

Hugh Shipman​
"The Mail used to be good but is just negative about everything these days."

Dave Walsh​
"I have been boycotting since their previous misleading campaign. I also notice that the Daily Telegraph nd The Times have been running articles with similar sentiments: sacrificing the truth for the headline and only quoting half truths. If they presented the whole story, it would show the truth - that they are painting a biased picture, with little resembelance to what happens in the real world."

John Ponder, ex-licensee in Cornwall​
"I agree with The Daily Mail. The Mail has my vote and my customers. Get off your back and stop kicking your arms and legs in the air just because you cannot get your own way!"