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The online advert said the 1p cut in beer duty and the halving of bingo duty to 10% would help "hardworking people do more of the things they enjoy".
Patronising ? - What's your view ?
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// Patronising ? - What's your view ? //
Yes. Ridiculously so, and especially daft because now all the talk is about Bingo, 1p off a pint (wow, let's paaaarty!), this stupid advert, and not the fairly radical change that you can essentially draw out your pension savings and spend them as you see fit, instead of having to buy an annuity from a company that pays you an annual pittance, and hopes you die as soon as possible.
Yes. Ridiculously so, and especially daft because now all the talk is about Bingo, 1p off a pint (wow, let's paaaarty!), this stupid advert, and not the fairly radical change that you can essentially draw out your pension savings and spend them as you see fit, instead of having to buy an annuity from a company that pays you an annual pittance, and hopes you die as soon as possible.
Whilst it can be interpreted that way, so can many things said in good faith. I think some are just making political capital from a genuine attempt to point out the budget held some welcome stuff for those who enjoy simple pleasures. And anyway most like a beer don't we ? My old mum used to like her bingo.
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A prize will be available for the first person to find that his local has reduced the price of a pint by a penny (or indeed by any other amount). Pubs only revise prices upwards and then only in multiples of 5p. With the honourable exception of Wetherspoons most of them charge for half pints in multiples of 5p (rounded up, natch) and many of them have stopped holding "brown money" in their tills entirely.
Had the Chancellor announced a penny increase your local would have increased the price by 5p this morning (or more probably last night). And they wonder why many of them are going to the wall.
Had the Chancellor announced a penny increase your local would have increased the price by 5p this morning (or more probably last night). And they wonder why many of them are going to the wall.
I think that beer is drunk across the classes these, but Bingo may not fall into the same category. I can't see many middle class people going to Bingo, but if I am wrong, I'm quite sure that somebody here on AB will tell me so !
Just as patronising is a remark I heard behind me in Tesco on Thursday morning. A couple were talking about the rise in tobacco duty and person said that "they" were taxing the working man's pleasures again !
Just as patronising is a remark I heard behind me in Tesco on Thursday morning. A couple were talking about the rise in tobacco duty and person said that "they" were taxing the working man's pleasures again !
Interesting ymb. You may very well be right. I have very little contact with Bingo, as nobody in my family have ever gone, and I certainly wouldn't.
But class may be a state of mind these days, rather than a reality. I still think I am working class, and would be highly offended if someone suggested I was middle class. But...horses for courses I suppose ( that is twice I have used that phrase today ! )
But class may be a state of mind these days, rather than a reality. I still think I am working class, and would be highly offended if someone suggested I was middle class. But...horses for courses I suppose ( that is twice I have used that phrase today ! )
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