HUKD politics :face_with_monocle:

Hopefully others will follow.

Greene King have great promotions running including BOGOF on drinks and a regular 40% off mains. Not worth cooking with the 40% offer. Large mixed grill for under £6 and two pints for under £2.50.

Best of luck asking any flavor of Government to be fair on anything......not just TAX
the lower down the food chain you are..... the more your WILL be shafted :cry:

Do not a lot of other European countries have far lower VAT rates for hotels and restaurants.
e.g. I believe Spain has a main VAT equivalent rate of 21% but only 10% for hotels and restaurants.

Cold, wetherspoons have got greedy this year and put their price up markedly.

Boycott.

Such a shame the food in there is only worth 7.5% of the price. Have a some heat though #microwaveheat :grin:

love the chips here

Wow... This thread got political as f*$k! This is a decent offer by the way. Heat

I like Wetherspoons. As long as your expectations are realistic then no problem. I was there with my partner last night actually and we spoke about it. It is basically the McDonalds/Poundland of Pubs. If you keep that in mind then you wont be disappointed. We had a meal each with a drink (wine for her and Guinness for me) and it came to a bit over £12. Now I thought we were people who liked a bargain, if that is only going to get cheaper then its a thumbs up from me.

Instead of a load of armchair political correspondants maybe keep the subject to the deal. Cheaper food and drink... Heat added.

£1.84 for Bud Light. Bargain.

It's stuff is horrid bar the drinks.

Thought I'd try again recently, coffee (latte) was horrible and roll/bap with sausage (wasn't even the type i'd ordered) tasted like plastic, not massively cheap either.

The same in Greggs is £2 but coffee is nice and breakfast roll fresh.
McDonalds is about the same price as Wetherspoons but coffee is nice and food is ok.

So if usually you spend £20 in wetherspoons, then on Wednesday you'll spend £1.50 less??? I understand how this is a political statement, but don't understand how is this a good deal

Any price cut (even for one day) is of course good news, so heat added.

The political case doesn't make a lot of sense as i) VAT cut = increased demand is hardly something that only applies to hospitality and ii) given the national debt there is a stronger argument for "Tax Equality" being achieved by raising the 0% rate on supermarket food that they are comparing against! (not that I am suggesting that should happen either)

Might not be so screwed had JD not bribed employees to vote leave.

Wetherspoons matched it's political stance on Brexit with it's clientele. Smart move.

Not Scotland though? Alright.

Wow 7.5%

Should keep all the local day drinkers happy ! I myself will be working as many of the UK population will and won't be able to take up the amazing 1 day offer

I agree, The UK would be a better place if we had higher taxes. None of us really like paying taxes however its obvious we need more spending in the UK with things like the NHS. Things like VAT though should be lower as it affects all people including those on low incomes.

Depends how you see it. I see VAT to be progressive as consumers who spend more, pay more VAT.

Obviously the more you spend the more you pay. However its an unfair tax for those on the lowest incomes as they pay a higher percentage of their income in VAT.

As I said, depends how you want to see VAT. Poorer people will state it's regressive, naturally.

Spain has lower VAT rates for several commodities, but has VAT on food.

Unfortunatly any offer always excludes some people because of their circumstances, but at least you will be earning and therefore able to take up their offer on a day you are not working at 7.5% or thereabouts more. what about the people in prison? they won't be able to take up this offer either.

Yes I agrre and my thinking is that we should not pay tax on our earnings and only on VAT. VAT should be graded were essencials should be at a low rate and other items at a scaled up rate until you get to super luxury items at say 40%. This way tax dodgers would be a thing of the past. This along with impot duties on TV's, laptops, mobiles etc.would perhaps see the disappearance of must have for all and see us start spending sensably. cut down our personal dept.
I remember a time that the wife ande mother of the family stayed at home and did things like cooking and housework and sent the kids off to school and welcomed them back and they all sat around theb table at night and at their meal together because TV if they had one did not start until 7.00PM. Ludo and snakes and ladder were the order of the day for entertainment unlessyou were well off enough to have Monopoly. Then things started to go bad and next door had a foreign holiday and you wanted one so the wife had to go out to work so you could have one. once the holiday was paid for you had some left over so you bought that TV that the Jones' had and next you had a phone etc. and that's how we got on that " Stairway to Heaven " we are all on today.

Oh I forgot, high earners would spend lot's and get taxed lot's because they spend more but it would be relevant to their spend. £100,000 for a Range Rover including VAT, what a winner for the government.

Income tax is theft

I voted to remain in the EU by the way but can see the long term benefit of leaving just the short term is not so good. The process of change is rarely smooth. There is no point just paying more taxes if the economy has a huge trading deficit. Just think of your own finances if you spend most of your money on imported goods and that money goes out of the economy it doesn't help much if you pay £50 extra a month in income taxes which the government also sends abroad too.

If you are going to increase taxes surely it makes more sense to make it taxes that also change how people spend their money so more money remains in the economy. Taxing people more drives up wages but we want to make it cheaper to produce goods and services in this country. Taxing goods and services wisely means you can still gain more tax revenue but actually have a positive effect on the economy. It's one of the benefits of leaving the EU will give us greater control of taxes.

We just need to make sure we do it wisely in order to repair our economy. We simply can't continue paying huge sums to Europe and also running a large trading deficit with them much of which goes to Germany where our main trading deficit is. If we do whether in or out of Europe we will become much poorer and with huge debts. In or out of Europe are both hugely negative for the British economy in the short term but leaving at least may have benefits in the long term. However the transition period may be rocky which is why I voted to remain.

We may not have the capacity to reinvent our economy and stay at the same wealth level in which case better to at least live within our means rather than build up huge debts which will be even harder to pay back if we become a poorer nation. You can't use income tax on its own to solve a huge trading deficit. Even if you use income tax to pay back national debt without tackling the trading deficit the British economy will contract and be heavily damaged.

Myself used to work in a prison and they have many more privileges than just a 7.5% off !!
And why talk so ridiculous regarding someone in prison ??? They've given up their right to have an evening out !! Their life choice at the time you fool !!!!

Brewers Fayre , Now that is poor , the price is double and the so called food worse even then JD W!
Oh and the beer is even worse ...

Lighten up Ollie, and don't take life and posts to seriously.

At least the offer doesn't coincide with 'Dole Day', that way the most of the 'locals' will have spent my taxes long before Wednesday comes around, giving the Income tax paying customers at bit back :raised_hand: Tax equality day ....yeah :sunglasses:

Yes, I know that, I meant that it was at a lower rate than their standard when eating out.

You do know that drinks promotions in Scotland are illegal?

Same company that filled their pubs with pro-Brexit propaganda, presumably because they want to get around the pesky laws relating to employees. Now the currency's in the toilet they want to have a little cry about VAT.

Do-gooders? Are you able to explain to me why doing good in the world is worthy of a pithy, negative nickname? I've never really understood that.

Why do you think doing good is a bad thing? What kind of a person does it really take to say that?

Those kind of people seem to be the first to complain, and the last who actually want to do anything about it.

Let me guess, you don't think we should be paying anything?

Probably the kinda of person who would happily have a member of their own family lose their job in order to get Brexit through...

As opposed to the Remainer clientele?

What pesky laws are they?

Lets look at current laws:

The minimum wage that discriminates against age...
A 25 year old is entitled to £7.50 per hour, as where his/hers fellow 24 year old colleague is only entitled to £7.05, and a 20 year old £5.60.
Zero hour contracts?

Not really. The top 10% of earners pay around 90% of the tax.

If you earn £50 k a year you pay a higher percentage of tax than someone earning £25k a year.

The higher up you are the more your taxed.

Not spending a penny at a business whose owner is an enthusiastic Brexit supporter. Boycott them, Charles Tyrwhitt , Next and the insurance companies of Aaron Banks

Scotland is included in the deal too. I've seen the signs up here.

90%+ Fishermen voted leave
58% of farmers polled voted leave

Are you going to boycott food too?

Really odd that statistic given the majority of famers rely on the EUs CAP

Think you'll find it killed most of the industry (especially Fishing). We had our own policy before which served us well.

Supermarkets killed the farmers by selling their products as loss leaders. Nothing to do with the EU.

The fishing industry could do better by actually marketing itself to the public and reducing prices. Who the hell pays £20/kg for cod?!

Not talking about the Supermarkets, that's a whole other subject. The post was relating to the referendum.

I'm guessing the huge majority of Fisherman voted leave due to the nonsense regulations. IE: Limitations on fishing in our own waters. Size limitations of fish, that once caught get thrown back dead anyway. Ridiculous.

Guessing would be about right: the UK’s share of the overall EU fishing catch has grown in the past decade and it now has the second largest catch of any country in the EU. Even if the UK left the EU, it wouldn’t necessarily mean that the situation would improve as many of the underlying issues that affect fisheries management would remain unchanged.

Who will leavers blame when we are outside the EU? they need start looking for new scapegoats, clock is ticking

Well, yourself and I are merely speculating the reasons.

At the end of the day, the people whom are actually working in that environment and know the business inside out voted massively in favour of leave.

I have not speculated anything. I've relayed facts. (I do know the UK (and Brexiteers) are no longer interested in facts from experts).

As I said previously, the EU benefits both farmers and fisherman. In this case, the UK has signed up to the UN Law of the Sea Convention which allows countries to establish an Exclusive Economic Zone of up to 200 nautical miles from their coast. If the UK were to leave the EU, sure it can have control of all the fish which were within this zone. However, the same laws also require countries to ensure that fish stocks are conserved and that the allowable catch is specified and where necessary shared with other countries.

Going for say the Norway model, post-Brexit, won't work either as Norway already have this 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone in place, they also have agreements with a number of countries, and with the EU to allow fishing in those waters.

The remainers for signing away so much of this country, and it taking 40 years for us to get a vote on the matter?
A flag (planted on almost everything), a currency, a parliament, an anthem, an un-elected president (corrupt at that), forthcoming EU army?
The remainer who lead the most ridiculous referendum campaign?
Or the Remainer, who decided to not be a remainer anymore and suddenly turn to hard Brexit?

An unelected president? A factually incorrect statement.

There will be no EU army.

Well obvioulsy it doesnt does it, otherwise they wouldnt have voted 90%+ in favour of leaving!?

Wetherspoons are drab, soulless drinking pits which are killing off traditional community pubs, and this is another right-wing PR stunt by their fat-faced, mullet-headed cretin of an owner. That said, I'll be passing one later and a cheap pint is a cheap pint, so thanks for the heads-up!

Doesn't mean they are right, though. Does it?

Well I didn't get a chance to vote for him... He was ransacked from this own country due to corruption allegations.

No EU army here...

You voted him indirectly by voting in a General Election in the UK.



Nice Photoshop work! :raised_hand:

Facts? experts? Leavers not interested in anything that gets in the way of their fantasies ;-)

Remoaners everywhere

???

Comrade corbyn will rescue us all with his free money tree and houses for all apart from those who want to work for it.

Only multi drinks promotions are illegal, this one wouldn't be, it's simply a price decrease.

Nope. Any drinks promotion.

Which includes temporary price reductions, happy hours etc and minimum prices. Basically, anything that encourages you to drink more than "normal".

flavor?? or flavour??

This is HotUKDeals not HotUSDeals,UK spellings plz. :stuck_out_tongue:

Not a bad price for keeping loony liebour out of power before he can take us back to the 70s with a crippled country.

Again - refer to the link I posted earlier.

72 hoiurs is the the tineline between drinks pricing so this wouldn't be OK in Scotland, apparently. Mimimum pricing only applies to off sales multi packs.

Ooh, fun with cherrypicking! Can you get some photos from the same event and show me another person who looks just like that?

If you want to play the same game and have people pick out stereotypical Brexiteers, I'm pretty sure we both know who's going to come out worse.

Nah, sorry. I'm spending less at the moment because our economy might be down the sh*tter in a few years.

Dull that politics, isn't it? Except when it has a real effect on your life.

You know, like.. every single day.

So, you're looking into a crystal ball too?

- Unemployment is the lowest it has been in 40 years. The likes of Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy are floating around 22%+ unemployment, with youth unemployment at a staggering ~50%....
- Retail spending is up
- Record levels of investment
- Lower value pound (even though it's climbed considerably since the referendum) boosts manufacturing and export.
In fact the pound-dollar exchange rate was at $1.50 prior to the referendum. Yet $1.70 the year before, so being a full member of the EU - it still was dropping, be it slowly.

We have not seen the doom and gloom you lot predicted, even HSBC has had to retract is valuations, stating that they got it completely wrong.

Do carry on though...

Dude (aside from the fact that you are cherrypicking yet again), this is going to blow your mind, but..

We haven't left the EU and Brexit hasn't happened yet.

If you get stuck on how to come back on this one, keep going back to that sentence in bold until you get it.

Aww bless, getting your knickers in a twist..

If you paid attention, I was focusing more on the exchange rate side of things.

You lot are constantly ridiculing people, writing Anti-Brexit related comments on non-relevant posts (like on this topic) - it's getting REALLY boring. I even read a woman blaming Brexit for the death of her dog the other day (no joke).