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    Worthington's at 99p a pint!

    Quote Originally Posted by Quinno View Post
    An unusually sympathetic write-up from the Graun.

    I wonder if they owe him this via various corrections they've had to make over the years.
    Perhaps the Grauniad's journalists have been seduced by the Barrel Vault, their office's nearest branch; they do get a special mention in Chairman Tim's Little Red Book.

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    Yes. Added to the site last December. Hopefully it will keep even more punters out of https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/24204/.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NickDavies View Post
    ...then Timbo speaks some more; you just can't stop him!

    https://www.standard.co.uk/business/...-b1069653.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tris39 View Post
    ...then Timbo speaks some more; you just can't stop him!

    https://www.standard.co.uk/business/...-b1069653.html
    As featured on More or Less

    BLX, basically, like all of his tax moans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NickDavies View Post
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    BLX, basically, like all of his tax moans.
    ...from where I got the prompt; appropriately enough, it had an extensive feature on rats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NickDavies View Post
    As featured on More or Less

    BLX, basically, like all of his tax moans.
    I listened to More or Less the other day, and they explained how the figure was derived?

    I think the key thing was that Wetherspoon said "generated" whereas the Standard changed this to "paid" which isn't the same thing, and others have read the claim that way too.

    Similar hoo-ha about this last year, with the calculations shown here: Wetherspoon, its customers and employees have paid £6 billion of tax to the government in the last 10 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rpadam View Post
    Wetherspoon, its customers and employees have paid £6 billion of tax to the government in the last 10 years
    I wish they'd spend more money on clearing and cleaning tables...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tris39 View Post
    I wish they'd spend more money on clearing and cleaning tables...
    The last 'spoons I was in (the Five Swans, Newcastle) were doing a great job clearing and cleaning tables, and I find this at least as often as indifferent or poor performance.

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