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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ban the use of pint to brim glasses in all drink outlets, these to be substituted by oversized pint and half-pint glasses marked at the pint and half-pint levels. More details
Submitted by Andrew Cormie of None – Deadline to sign up by: 10 April 2008 – Signatures: 100
More details from petition creator
Most bartenders appear to take the view that customers should accept less beer than they have paid for. If this were not the case, they would fill pint and half pint to brim glasses to the brim, not anything up to 20mm less. Alternatively they would use lined glasses. This topic has been raised in the past and always the publicans and brewers object. In this day and age it is high time we encouraged a culture of being provided with what we pay for. Why should spirits drinkers have greater protection than beer drinkers? The drinks industry says that customers are free to ask for the glass to be “topped up”. I maintain that this is a cynical ploy, as I for one have never seen anyone ask for a top-up. (I do ask, and am often insulted or made to feel bad for asking). Further it is often impracticable (in a busy Pub), and messy, to have ones glass properly filled.
Current signatories
Andrew Cormie, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Neil Cox
- ian moore
- Colin Pirie
- Rex M F Smith
- Steve Cormie
- Oliver Ray
- Mike Thomas
- Laurence Whiteside
- Roger Leslie Corbett
- Peter Edwardson
- david griffiths
- Nick Boorer
- Trevor Tiller
- James Dickson
- Peter Daniells
- Ivor David Jones
- ANDREW FLETCHER
- Christopher John Excell
- Gerald Drake
- Belton Hammond
- andrew kendall
- Iain Young
- Robin Ford
- Ken Sheppard
- malcolm moores
- Ashok Argent-Katwala
- Tom Gray
- tony hann
- judith hann
- Adil Akkus
- Gill Gibson
- Bryan Spink
- Brian Spurling
- Leigh Shepherd
- John E Turner
- Graham Arthur
- Jamie Cooper
- Tony Baregi
- Kevin Galton
- Kevin Galton
- Greg Pittaway
- Paul Drover
- Brian Dawes
- Malcolm Arthur
- David Lockett
- Hatty Arthur
- Tony Rivers
- Peter Duffy
- Peter Mitchell
- brian buckingham
- V.POWELL
- Greg Paine
- Andrew Hibbert
- Philip Cunnington
- Andrew Bushby
- E.R.Matthews
- Paul Christie
- Mike Haines
- david ramskill
- elaine Symonds
- John Shaw
- Jose Pekerman
- John Talbot
- Stephen Cooke
- david stone
- D Pittam
- Gladys Pittam
- Mark Bearne
- Steve Delbridge
- Kevan Short
- stuart madden
- Susan Hepburn
- Raymond A Johnson
- Alan Evans
- George Greenhalgh
- CHRIS INSTONE
- Colin Steer
- Derek Martyn
- John Myers
- phillip m jones
- Neil Daniels
- N Davies
- Rob Morton
- Istvan Nemeshanyi
- Alex Cholot
- Rebecca Rees
- haydn john latham
- rachel sharp
- Richard Emms
- Jim Cosgrave
- Georgina Jolliffe
- Jeremy Spencer-Cooper
- Gordon Simpson
- John Wallis
- Jacqui Piper
- Neil Piper
- Andy Barber
- Hugh Jaeger
- John O'Mara
