The Cornish Pasties are saved

[matty40s]

At last, protest leads to results,

 

the government has caved in to the Pasty Protests on Canalworld (and elsewhere) and withdrawn it's threatened tax.

 

For some reason, it has also withdrawn the Caravan tax as well, although we didn't assist on that one...

[Darren72]

At last, protest leads to results,

 

the government has caved in to the Pasty Protests on Canalworld (and elsewhere) and withdrawn it's threatened tax.

 

For some reason, it has also withdrawn the Caravan tax as well, although we didn't assist on that one...

 

 

 

And Greggs now sell frozen pasties and sausage rolls in Iceland!!!

[Ray T]

My mouth is watering at the mere thought:

 

http://www.properpasty.co.uk/

[dor]

Ah - The owner of Ginsters has given a £100,000 donation to the Tory Party. Says it all!

[smileypete]

I'm sure Mr Bizzard could come up with a pocket sized meth-fuelled nano pasty oven which folds down when not in use.

 

cheers, Pete.

[MartinClark]

Never mind those namby-pamby pasties. It's also good news for the beautiful freshly-baked pork pies from Bradley's Bakery of Ashton under Lyne. If you time your purchase right, you can get one from has only recently come out of the oven. In that condition they are scrumptious and irresistible. Your Gregg's pasty couldn't hold a crumb up to them!

Edited May 28, 2012 by MartinClark

[eightpot]

Never mind those namby-pamby pasties. It's also good news for the beautiful freshly-baked pork pies from Bradley's Bakery of Ashton under Lyne. If you time your purchase right, you can get one from has only recently come out of the oven. In that condition they are scrumptious and irresistible. Your Gregg's pasty couldn't hold a crumb up to them!

 

A Greggs pasty couldn't hold a crumb up to a dog turd.

[CV32]

The static caravan tax will now be 5% and not the proposed 20%

 

Does all this indecision/change of heart make it a pastyshambles ..... or still an omnishambles.

[carlt]

A Greggs pasty couldn't hold a crumb up to a dog turd.

which is just as well because people would then start confusing them with the Steak Bakes.

[Athy]

I assume that the opposition to this proposed tax was led by John Prescott?

[DaveG]

Whilst the "Caravan Tax" reduction is very welcome news for 7,000 workers in East Yorkshire, the U-turn hasn't been driven by the desire to protect jobs and business but as a result of pressure from wealthy land-owning site owners, including one very vocal Tory Party Constituency chairwoman in Suffolk who threatened to take her membership elsewhere as the tax would, allegedly, bankrupt her

[STIG]

so lets have the vat taken off fish and chips , then we can all be equal

[magpie patrick]

so lets have the vat taken off fish and chips , then we can all be equal

 

In many ways I'd agree, I can see a distinction between eating in and takeaway, but between hot and cold takeaway seems an odd one (although both are difficult to define, a chip shop with a bench that someone then eats there food at?)

 

Whilst the "ambient temperature" proposals for VAT were daft, no one should be called an arse for admitting they made a mistake. I wish more politicians would admit they'd screwed up, the country would be run better.

[KevMc]

I wish more politicians would admit they'd screwed up, the country would be run better.

 

Don't hold your breath

[eightpot]

which is just as well because people would then start confusing them with the Steak Bakes.

 

Steak Bake = Contents of cat litter tray. World of difference.

[bottle]

Bit late to this discussion but VAT has not been stopped on hot take a way if it has been kept warm.

 

Hot food 'take a way' is only '0' rated if it is straight from the cooking process.

 

Similar to a loaf of bread,.

 

If the item is still hot from it being cooked it is '0' rated but if kept warm it will be VAT rated (20%)

[cariad]

Bit late to this discussion but VAT has not been stopped on hot take a way if it has been kept warm.

 

Hot food 'take a way' is only '0' rated if it is straight from the cooking process.

 

Similar to a loaf of bread,.

 

If the item is still hot from it being cooked it is '0' rated but if kept warm it will be VAT rated (20%)

 

80% eating 20% propulsion, not if you are a liveaboard c/cruiser surely

[Athy]

I celebrated the news today by having a Gregg's (until recently called "Baker's Oven" around here) cornish pasty for lunch. The last one I had was, I think, £1.10. Today's cost £1.40. Doubtless when the VAT rate went up the company slapped on an extra bit of profit margin, hoping that no one would notice.

[Dominic M]

I celebrated the news today by having a Gregg's (until recently called "Baker's Oven" around here) cornish pasty for lunch. The last one I had was, I think, £1.10. Today's cost £1.40. Doubtless when the VAT rate went up the company slapped on an extra bit of profit margin, hoping that no one would notice.

I can't believe that any business would be so unscrupulous. I mean, garages always adjust their pump prices in line with the drop in oil prices.

[Athy]

What's that lump in your cheek? Ah yes, your tongue!

[matty40s]

I can't believe that any business would be so unscrupulous. I mean, garages always adjust their pump prices in line with the drop in oil prices.

 

ah, dominic, they always change them.

 

when the supplier says the price is going up, it's a race to shut the pumps and raise the price asap (therefore selling up to 300,000l at a large service station at the new price(although having paid the old))

When the price is dropping, the notification comes through, and it's hang fire on the price change until the delivery tanker is on the forecourt ready to deliver.

[Dominic M]

ah, dominic, they always change them.

 

when the supplier says the price is going up, it's a race to shut the pumps and raise the price asap (therefore selling up to 300,000l at a large service station at the new price(although having paid the old))

When the price is dropping, the notification comes through, and it's hang fire on the price change until the delivery tanker is on the forecourt ready to deliver.

Surely not, Matty. You've destroyed my faith in humanity in one single post. Next you're going to tell me that London's streets are not paved with gold, and the tooth fairy is a lie. I'm bereft.

[matty40s]

Surely not, Matty. You've destroyed my faith in humanity in one single post. Next you're going to tell me that London's streets are not paved with gold, and the tooth fairy is a lie. I'm bereft.

well, after running watford gap and northampton's BP's for a few years, it was nuff sed an dun.

year 2007/8 we made an extra £139,000 quid by getting it right!!!!

[Darren72]

I celebrated the news today by having a Gregg's (until recently called "Baker's Oven" around here) cornish pasty for lunch. The last one I had was, I think, £1.10. Today's cost £1.40. Doubtless when the VAT rate went up the company slapped on an extra bit of profit margin, hoping that no one would notice.

Bakers oven have been owned by Greggs for at least 20 years, they have just rebranded.

[Athy]

Bakers oven have been owned by Greggs for at least 20 years, they have just rebranded.

Oh, I don't doubt it - I just wonder why they bothered to switch from a good, evocative name to a boring one, when the Baker's Oven brand was so well established and liked.