As energy bills continue to rocket higher in the United Kingdom and all across Europe, many pubs are now simply turning off the lights all together and illuminating their establishments with many candles.
For some, this is actually reportedly having a good effect.
Lad Bible reached out to The Masons Arms in Camelford, Cornwall – which is now only lighting their pub with candles on Monday nights – where Landlady Kate Chawner-Woods explained that energy costs have been pushing businesses like theirs to the breaking point.
When I opened the electricity bill I thought ‘how are we going to cope?’
It was really scary and we were so worried about how this winter was going to pan out – it’s a massive increase, our electricity bill isn’t much less than our rent now.
I was moaning and cursing when I got the bill through when one of the locals turned around and told me to just turn the lights out, go back to the way it used to be.
So that got me thinking and now we’ve gone back to using only candles on a Monday, like how it would have been when the pub opened in 1753.
At 6pm we cut out all the lights – people really like it, we had 65 covers last Monday which is far more than we’d usually get on a Monday in October.
The atmosphere is great, everybody seems to like it – it’s romantic and people seem to talk to each other a lot more, it’s really lovely.
The warmth of the candles actually means we don’t need the heating as much.
It was toasty in here last month, so if demand continues we want to do it on another weekday as well.
It’s important that we do this because coming to the pub is a really important part of some of our locals’ lives.
It’s hard for everybody right now, not just businesses – everyone is suffering.
We want people to be able to come to the pub and spend some time in the warmth because it might actually be cheaper than heating their own homes.
Lad Bible reported on another pub doing something similar, The Angel and Crown in Richmond, South West London, which the owners are also reporting that the 400-year-old pub is facing its greatest financial problem in a longtime. However, this pub’s use of candlelight is proving to be not as fruitful.
We’ve seen a 25 percent increase on our bills, so we’ve had to put all of our prices up unfortunately.
In some ways the candles have created a nice atmosphere, but customers have noticed that we haven’t been able to put the lights on.
It’s going to get to the point where we have to keep putting up our prices until it’s unaffordable.
We’ve already had some of our regulars stop coming in because they just can’t afford it anymore.
I hope for everybody that pubs survive, because for some people it’s the only conversation they have that day – it’s not just going out for a pint, it’s so much more than that.
Owner and manager Hannah Lawson explained
Beit so, Lad Bible wrote: ‘There you go, maybe we don’t need electricity after all? Maybe we should start cooking on fires too and sleeping under the stars. In all seriousness though, visiting the pub could be more invaluable than ever over the winter, as we seek social interaction, camaraderie and warmth, so it is vital that they stay open.’
On August 31st, ZeroHedge reported on a slew of small businesses, pubs, and homeowners in the U.K. and Ireland, whose energy bills have risen by the thousands, some even by the tens of thousands of pounds.
The financial outlet reported, ‘Geraldine Dolan, who owns the Poppyfields cafe in Athlone, Ireland – and was charged nearly €10,000 (US$10,021) for just over two months of energy usage.’
It’s a truly frightening prospect and one that most could not have prepared for, and never expected to face at this point in their lives.
I think a lot of older people will be utterly bewildered that it has come to this and will also feel badly let down, and I can’t say I blame them.
Caroline Abrahams, charity director of Age U.K., said
Twitter researcher ‘Crab Man’ compiled a list of small businesses owners that published their outrageous bills, with some being forced to close their businesses due to the costs.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[24] There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. [25] The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. [26] He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.Proverbs 11:24-26
While each of the proverbs have a specific application, the general meaning of each is comparable to the statements made by the German Foreign Minister; who explicitly says she and the country will throw more money at Ukraine before she helps her own people, which means Germany will freeze and collapse from the bottom out.
This is the same type of logic being imployed across all of Europe and the U.K. Needless to say, the people are going to be getting extremely restless soon. Gerald Celente of the Trends Journal has a true saying: “When people lose everything, and have nothing else left to lose, they lose it.”
UK Energy Executives Warn Government Of Likely ‘Civil Unrest’ As Bills Continue To Climb
Prime Minister Liz Truss has already tried to implement energy caps and stimulus, but that will not work in the long-term, and only increase the costs of everything once more.
As I have been warning about, the systematic and designed culling of the last remaining bits of the middle class are underway and nearly complete. The coming financial implosion in the debt market and popping of the ‘everything bubble’ will be the finishing touch, allowing for the new system to be implemented.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Good. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ. I hope all these bars and pubs that serve these poisonous, toxic, inorganic liquor, play carnal worldy music, encourage fornication and drunkenness close doors and go out of business.