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Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - Phil Anthropist (28th Oct 2020  11:37:16) I visited the [removed] yesterday and was delighted to see that they are offering their own take on free school lunches. Much attention in the media is given to the challenges faced by the less well off in these times, and rightly so, but an often forgotten small minority are the children of wealthy parents attending fee paying schools. During October half term boys and girls, such as Hugo and Camilla, would usually be whizzing down the slopes of Val d’Isere, or sunning themselves on a remote tropical island, instead they find themselves stuck at home, much to the irritation of Mummy who now cannot attend her pilates classes or enjoy drinks with Jeremy her lifestyle coach. Recognising the difficulties faced by these Mummies, The [removed] have valiantly stepped up to the plate, and are now offering free school lunches for the remainder of this half term holiday. To take advantage of this generous offer, all you need do is park your Range Rover, Porsche or other Chelsea Tractor of choice in the designated parking zone, and a member of the waiting team will come to take your order. The menu will include such delights as quails eggs and foie gras, served with a choice of sourdough bread or olive focaccia. Whilst the little darlings are munching away, Mummy will be offered a decaffeinated soya latte, or a choice from the extended range of free trade organic herbal teas. The meals and drinks will be free, but you will be invited to pay a small discretionary service charge. Well done [removed] team! [editor]Funny, but pub name removed.[/editor]

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - D (28th Oct 2020  12:49:09) I'm sure Hugo and Camilla pay an awful lot of income tax to the state.

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - Richard (28th Oct 2020  13:28:09) D Not as much as they should as the Tories tend to look after their own tax wise while crapping on those on the lower rungs of the ladder

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - Wayne (28th Oct 2020  14:03:17) D, I hope they are otherwise how could I live off the state!

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - D (28th Oct 2020  16:12:18) Very good answer, Wayne, wish I'd thought of it. All I'm saying is I don't think people wealthy enough to send their offspring to private schools should be knocked for it. That's just the politics of envy. As for "crapping" on those not so wealthy, if that were the case we wouldn't have a 0% income tax threshold. I don't know the exact figures but it goes something along the lines of the top 10% of earners pay 90% of all tax or something. Without these wealthy people we would be paying a lot more than 20%.

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - Wayne (28th Oct 2020  17:52:31) Cannot beat a bit of envy, great left wing comfort blanket! I love it

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - H (28th Oct 2020  17:54:40) Think it is bel and the dragon in Churt but parent have to be spending quite a bit on their lunch and think the childrens ' menu is quite basic.

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - D (28th Oct 2020  19:24:11) Phil Anthropost, do you know Benny Fitz?

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - H (28th Oct 2020  22:12:19) D I do not understand your sentence about income tax? Please explain.

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - D (29th Oct 2020  05:51:52) H, is it really necessary? The sentence is quite understandable. Admittedly I am unable to provide exact figures and a reference as to where the information comes from, but the sentence is quite self explanatory.

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - MikeT (29th Oct 2020  09:19:42) Phil I'm really quite upset by the removal of vital details from your post about where to find this heavenly sounding establishment. I had Jeeves take me all around the area yesterday in the stretched Hummer to find it. We spent three hours looking everywhere but without success. We had to stop a couple of times for tea and cakes and I'm afraid that the Hummer needed re-fuelling twice as well during the search. You have really damaged our carbon footprint because of your inadequate information. It really is pointless posting on here without sharing the full details. You are clearly not an employee there as you'll never achieve a higher class of clientele with this type of post. Without delay, you must at least provide a postcode on this forum and confirm whether they have adequate parking for stretched limos. Of course, if parking for our regular vehicles can't be provided, we can bring both Bugattis so that Camilla and Hugo can join us.

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - Joe Kerr (29th Oct 2020  10:04:18) MikeT It appears that you are one of the few to see the original post for what it is, a light hearted, tongue in cheek observation on local life. When you do manage to locate the venue, I am confident that you will find sufficient parking for your Bugattis and any other Classic Cars that you may own.

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - rolli (29th Oct 2020  11:03:32) To get into some of these places though its like going through Checkpoint Charlie

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - er (29th Oct 2020  13:39:38) D, I don't know if it's true or not that the top 10% pay 90% of tax, but I doubt it. [editor]I’m pretty sure the maths below incorrectly interprets the various meanings of the word ’tax’ - which in places below includes all taxes (Income, VAT, fuel tax etc) but in others is only income tax. Do not read too much into the generalisations below without doing further reading yourself [/editor] What is correct (as of 2019 report by the TaxPayers Alliance: The tax burden on households 2019) is that at the time: "The bottom 10 per cent of households lost 43 per cent of their gross income to taxes in 2008-9. In 2017-18, that had risen to 47.6 per cent" That means nearly HALF of all the poor earn goes on tax! Way above the amount paid by the rich, in fact I read somewhere the wealthiest 1% pay on average less than 10% of their earnings on UK tax! ...so someone earning £20,000 pa pays nearly £10,000 on tax (direct and indirect) leaving only £10k for RENT, bills and food etc! How they do it I DON'T KNOW! I must admit I'm not one of them so I'll be putting my share in the food bank collection and thanking God for my blessings!

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - er (29th Oct 2020  16:22:49) Thanks for the warning Ed, I'm glad at least someone bothers to read what I write! Actually, I do owe an apology to D as my first sentence should have read 'income tax' not 'tax' and I think this is where the confusion arose, my apologies! I don't however think Ed, that there is much of a difference between direct or indirect tax, the report I referred to makes it quite clear the range of different taxes we all pay to the state from Income through VAT, Council tax, Capital Gains, Stamp Duty, Fuel tax etc etc, so I think the rest of my post was OK! The real difference is that we often fail to notice things like VAT or fuel duty for the insidious taxes they are, not based on earnings but living, this is where the inequality is most dangerous and the poorest fare worst, a tax is a tax however it's levied or whatever it's called. Instead of just referring to the report I'll try to link to it below: taxpayersalliance.com/... Regards All (and good luck finding Shangri-La, I hope at least some of us get there and not just the 1%!) PS about all this Fact Checking stuff, which is fine, but please bear in mind these are just comments, not news articles, the people reading them understand we aren't specialist broadcasters with legal editing departments, we expect to read each others amateur comments for what they are, opinions not the bible and don't be too critical of people or treat them as gospel either, I'd have thought that was pretty obvious really, this applies to all posts and replies, Ed maybe you should just post that at the top of every page ha ha!)

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - D (29th Oct 2020  16:29:32) er, I've never been on as much as £20,000 a year but I manage after paying all my taxes. You do not mention that the poor take more out of the state than the rich do so there is an offset there.

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - Wayne (29th Oct 2020  16:44:23) D- you're right there, I've never had to do a proper days work in my life but i've managed to get by quite nicely thanks to the state and those taxes. My 7 kids ain't complaining either, its a great country we live in, that's why so many want to come here from overseas

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - er (29th Oct 2020  16:51:54) D, that is very true, but it's still only a small % of GDP! Low wages at the bottom has become an integral part of the 21st century capitalist model and so there has to be a quid pro quo to avoid chaos and upheaval, which would threaten the capitalist model, everyone below the 1% is expendable, but considered dangerous, hence the free Valium and child tax credit as a semblance of normality and equality for those at the bottom ha ha! NOTE: THIS IS JUST OPINION ALL!

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - Ian (29th Oct 2020  18:38:45) Oh er, do lighten up, this post is clearly just a bit of tongue in cheek fun! The problem with the left as you exemplify is that you are such utterly humourless bores

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - er (29th Oct 2020  22:06:29) Don't be grumpy, I can see that this is a hilarious fun filled post, I'm just rolling around here thinking about it, please think of me as vacuous but eager to please, we will get on great, so cheer up!!!

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - Pete (1st Nov 2020  13:46:54) Local pubs shutting again shame to see the anchor landlord is leaving though.

Re: Local Pub Stepping up to the Plate - Ian (1st Nov 2020  15:37:36) Pete, Anchor manager must have got fed up writing his own trip advisor reviews!

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