Alcohol duty increasing next week
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Soldato
Good old Brexit - If it is responsible for beer-wine and spirits going up and plebs can't afford it then the NHS in a few years time will see a drop in alcohol related health problems- then they can concentrate on treating all these poor migrants (Tony bliar) that are coming here with diseases we have eradicated for years. Not all bad things are bad 
Soldato
This is why over 75s should stop voting. You can't do jury service after 75. There was a positive correlation between age and likelihood to vote Brexit. Read somewhere if over 75s were banned from voting, the outcome would have been 59/41 in favour for remain.
Soldato
Beers under 3.5% are awful.
Soldato
Not sure if I approve of the current hatred for old people. They seem to get blamed for everything. It's a myth that they had it easier. And they paid their National Insurance, it's not their fault successive governments decided to squander it.
I generally agree with the hating old people point but National insurance is just a tax on employment, it’s not ring fenced for anything and just goes into the big pot in the treasury and spent on anything and everything. It’s not something you can hold out as some kind of special status.
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Soldato
Just because i take every opportunity to announce i'm moving there. I'll be in Spain for good in around 2 months
Soldato
True. Stamp Duty (of effectively the same thing) is also 10%, Same with buying a second hand car. Go pay 10% to the government to transfer ownership. There's no £12,500 tax free personal allowance, and income taxes are generally a lot higher. No £325k Inheritance Tax tax free allowance either.
Also can probably add, want to sell a car privately? Got to pay the equivalent of an accountant/lawyer to process it as the government make everything unnecessarily complicated and you can't just process a form online like over here. Everything is done in person and costs money to do anything.
Just different methods to claw back the money. Keep certain taxes low whilst making others high. The UK just does it the other way round. Give people more money initially, but tax them more on spending.
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Soldato
We need a religious terrorist to murder the protestant king and restore the catholic monarchy by manipulation of his 9 year old daughter.
Right, right. Someone better tell Charlotte. (Well granddaughter but close enough)
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Soldato
Plus get older generations who vote for a certain party because their late spouse would have voted for them. Their spouse died 20 years ago. Those people shouldn't vote either.
Soldato
Also with the sale of a 2nd hand car, you pay the car tax for that car for the end of the month and car tax for your new car purchase.
I look forward to weeks of being told by customers that my beer prices should have come down when, in truth, the duty on most draught beer & cider is the same as it was last week.
It's not all bad though. Duty on lower ABV beers actually has come down, so beers like Bud Light are even cheaper than they already were. Same for lower ABV wines, with the duty on a 10% ABV wine being 53p less than one in the 11.5% to 14.5% range. It might be that the customers do get their price cuts via changes to our offering.
It's not all bad though. Duty on lower ABV beers actually has come down, so beers like Bud Light are even cheaper than they already were. Same for lower ABV wines, with the duty on a 10% ABV wine being 53p less than one in the 11.5% to 14.5% range. It might be that the customers do get their price cuts via changes to our offering.
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Man of Honour
Welcome to democracy where everyone is given the right to vote and that should never change.
That's quite wrong.
The particular part I'll bring up is that there's an age limit for voting and there's a desperate struggle to prevent it being lowered to 16 from 18. Which it's currently at after being lowered from 21 to 18 about 50 years ago.
There isn't an upper limit but it would make as much sense as a lower one.
Man of Honour
I wouldn't say quite wrong, once you're legally an adult and can do all the other things adults can do then you can vote with no restriction.
Imposing an upper age limit because you don't like the way that age range vote seems a bit of a slippery slope.
Allowing someone legally classed as a child to vote is slightly different in my mind.
Permabanned
thx **** for necter points 
The labels and restrictions are arbitrary.
Some of the most enthusiastic resistance against lowering the lower age limit is... not liking the way that younger voters vote. Why allow more voters in that you don't like.
Let's have an anecdote. A grandparent into their 90's was taken to the polling station to vote. Later that same day they had no awareness of having voted at all. Or for that matter what the beginning of a moderately long sentence was.
No need to give undue respect to a lower age limit when there's an undue assumption that having attained the age limit you are in full possession of a set of marbles forever.