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Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by VBprogrammer »

moop_moop wrote: post #61
sefrost wrote: post #18

Wow a fantastic independent pub near where I used to live in London is seeing its rateable value go up 480%! This website really puts the headlines in to a nice local perspective. It seems like the taxes only go up while the services get worse in the UK, although I’ve been away for 5 years now so maybe things improved.

The services have certainly not got better in the last 5 years. This Government is fiscally illiterate and has hit the top of the Laffer curve and is now trying to go down the other side.

This government have been in power for less than 2 years. Despite launching a lot of trial balloons on raising taxes they haven't actually raised the headline tax rates (other than allowing fiscal drag to do so).

Overall the tax burden in the UK is middling for western democracies. It's actually on the low side for low earners - which is probably a problem because the distribution is such that the majority pay very little.

The other problem being cliff edges and complexities which distinctive chasing pay rises and working more for a lot of people.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by huijzer »

sefrost wrote: post #18

Wow a fantastic independent pub near where I used to live in London is seeing its rateable value go up 480%! This website really puts the headlines in to a nice local perspective. It seems like the taxes only go up while the services get worse in the UK, although I’ve been away for 5 years now so maybe things improved.

> It seems like the taxes only go up while the services get worse in the UK,

Same in the Netherlands

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by tazjin »

crazygringo wrote: post #49

Would be much more helpful if it indicated literally anywhere on the homepage that this was specific to the UK. Being a .com as opposed to a .co.uk, you can't even tell from the domain.

No. It was obvious from the title that this was about the UK, and also why should they - American sites don't indicate this either, and they have no monopoly on the language.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by walthamstow »

alexpotato wrote: post #144
philo23 wrote: post #125

Kinda meta, but this is the first time in a long time where I've put only the first half of my postcode in expecting it not to work and been surprised. Most of these "find your nearest XYZ" site require the full postcode which is just unnecessary unless you're looking for a fairly precise location. A full postcode can narrow your location down to an individual street, so its nice not to give too much away if you can.…

I lived in SW1 many years ago and was surprised to learn, from this website, that SW goes all the way out to SW19!

Fun fact: apart from the main office SW1 they're alphabetised by area, from SW2 Brixton to SW19 Wimbledon. All of the London postcode areas are like this.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by OJFord »

philo23 wrote: post #125

Kinda meta, but this is the first time in a long time where I've put only the first half of my postcode in expecting it not to work and been surprised. Most of these "find your nearest XYZ" site require the full postcode which is just unnecessary unless you're looking for a fairly precise location. A full postcode can narrow your location down to an individual street, so its nice not to give too much away if you can.…

> A full postcode can narrow your location down to an individual street,

Often a single block of flats. Rurally perhaps even just a single residence?

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by OJFord »

crazygringo wrote: post #88
wat10000 wrote: post #27

People really struggle when given a link to a web site that isn't for them, huh.

No. It's when the web site doesn't say who it's for at all , that's when everybody struggles. And understandably so.

Remember that every time you read 'national' today and it means 'US'.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by p0w3n3d »

Disclaimer - I don't drink at all. Still, when visiting London, I found going to Pubs (for the food mostly) a magical experience. When you enter such place, see that it's so so old, almost like a relic, like a monument, you really appreciate the place. My business trips led me to London centre so I saw the oldest ones.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by OJFord »

9rx wrote: post #208
jhbadger wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet it is the one part of the UK that actually has a language that is spoken by a non-trivial percentage of the population (unlike NI or Scotland where a tiny percentage can speak their Celtic tongue)

> And yet it is the one part of the UK that actually has a language that is spoken by a non-trivial percentage of the population 98% of the UK population can speak English, so I'm not sure where you got that idea. Clearly every part (maybe some small, uncelebrated village breaks the rule) of the UK has a language spoken by virtually the entire population of that region. > (unlike NI or Scotland where a tiny percentag…

Are you joking? They meant Wales, 27.7% of the population of Wales speak Welsh (and yes most of them English too).

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by hdgvhicv »

Aromasin wrote: post #220
jimnotgym wrote: post #207

One striking feature in the UK is the number of pubs that 'went on fire'. The business is no longer viable, planning constraints (and often listed building constraints, which is protection for historical buildings, many pubs are very old) won't let them do anything else with the building so they sit empty until they spontaneously combust. Soon after they get demolished and regrow as a supermarket or apartments.

Worth noting the circle of "pubs that light on fire" and "flat roofed 1970s slum pub" almost entirely overlap. Nobodies setting fire to their thatched-roof pub from 1650 because of pub rates. They just change hands through the breweries every 3-4 years now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat-roofed_pub

https://news.sky.com/story/police-now-treating-fire-at-histo...

More profitable to convert the pub into a house and sell it that to actually run a pub.

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