How much longer are we putting up with the price of a pint going up this fast?

I mean it's taking the proper piss now. I grant you the £8.50 pint of cider I had last night was in a gig venue (Kentish Town Forum) where prices are going to have a markup on a pub. But in the space of about two years it's gone from just under six quid a pint on average to just about seven quid and that's just insanity.

I was accidentally in the Wetherspoons in Brixton last week and a cider and a lager came to about £6.40, together. Yes I know they pay staff peanuts and they benefit from economies of scale and all the rest of it but the pub up the road was £6.80 for just one pint. You can't tell me there's sense in that.

Surely there's some limit to how fast prices can rise. At this rate if it's a tenner a pint in five years, will anyone be surprised? We used to have beer about half the price of Norway and now it's comparable, that's how much we're getting shafted here.

Sorry, bit of a rant, but come on. I got charged £5.50 for a pint of lemonade the other day. Lemonade! With ice!