The Budget

[Accy cyclist]

3p on a pint!
So my pint will now cost £4.97p

and it won't be just 3 pence as they'll round it up to 10 pence!!🧐

 

[fossyant]

I don't smoke and don't drink alcho ... alchi ... alcohol. Or at least not any more.

So ....

Budgety-stuff means I'm paying 1.25% extra National Insurance, the same tax for fuel and since I don't fly much no real difference there.

Overall I'm therefore about £725 a year worse off, but I already knew that. But ... I might get a pay rise as I'm in education, although less than inflation so worse off even more.

About 1% rise ?

 

[vickster]

and it won't be just 3 pence as they'll round it up to 10 pence!!🧐

3p less, so rounding it to 10p will mean a bigger cut surely 🧐

 

[Accy cyclist]

3p less, so rounding it to 10p will mean a bigger cut surely 🧐

Where does it say a 3p reduction?🤔

 

[vickster]

Where does it say a 3p reduction?🤔

In the news reports… (And the post you referred to, although he probably should have said off not on) 🧐

 

[DRM]

I tell them I'm only renting it and will leave it in the gent's for them to recycle. (In some pubs I suspect that's back to the pump only pausing briefly in a cooler before serving to the next victim.)

So far I've failed to get a reduction in price.

A long time back I was at the Rugby at Headingley, at half time dad in law and me nipped to the loo, as we were going in a bloke came out clutching his pint, quick as a flash dad says I suspected that's where the beer came from, know I know it is, any how back to the budget.

 

[Scoosh]

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[Accy cyclist]

although he probably should have said off not on) 🧐

Yes, he should! 🧐 Why are they making beer cheaper instead of more expensive i ask?!🤔 They're up to summat!!

If it's 3p off,not 3p on a pint then places like my local won't knock the 3p off as they'll say it'll affect the till or something like that.🧐

 

[vickster]

Yes, he should! 🧐 Why are they making beer cheaper instead of more expensive i ask?!🤔 They're up to summat!!

He quoted a post related to a reduction in duty, so it was clear at least to oneself.
They’re not, they’ve reduced the duty. The beer itself costs the same 🧐

 

[Accy cyclist]

He quoted a post related to a reduction in duty, so it was clear at least to oneself.
They’re not, they’ve reduced the duty. The beer itself costs the same 🧐

So not cut in price for the customer then?🧐

 

[Blue Hills]

3p on a pint!
So my pint will now cost £4.97p

you're drinking in the wrong places - had one for £1.99 earlier today.

 

[vickster]

So not cut in price for the customer then?🧐

Yes, 3p less duty to pay (although inflation will possibly outstrip that)

 

[Accy cyclist]

Yes, 3p less duty to pay (although inflation will possibly outstrip that)

Ah well.

 

[Blue Hills]

I must admit to not even looking at the budget news until at least the next day when at least some less knee-jerk reactions are available from Left or Right.

The results will happen, and affect me or not, whether I read them today, tomorrow, or never.

same here - i wait for the dust and blather to settle.
Any opposition in parliament from whatever side (whoever the government is) is obvs just so much wind (taxable?) as they can't possibly have read it.
I look forward to some government getting wind that the world is about to end the next day, announcing presents and jolly good stuff beyond earthly imaginings, and the opposition getting up to condemn it with much theatrical rage.

 

[Accy cyclist]

you're drinking in the wrong places - had one for £1.99 earlier today.

99p a pint in Wetherspoons!! 🍻

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co....everal-drink-prices-99p-across-england---see/