now it's VAT free.
If people are struggling to pay for food and utilities they are not going to go on a day out because the kids travel free on the bus and they can get £10 of a family entry ticket. It's another let's look like we're doing something but without actually losing out on too much tax revenue policy. We were going to take VAT off electricity but realised that would cost billions.
No, but I might if my m6s get me a free ticket.
Rach, got any cheap gimmicks that will get us a favourable headline in the Mail?
Well, Keir, we could try reforming tax, benefits and housing to help people.
No, just bung the plebs something to get them off our case. Burnham can sort it out in September.
Fondly remembering the days of a merlin pass. Wonder if those can be made cheaper but suspect most who would buy have for this year.
Sails’ defiant scepticism in defence of every aspect of the status quo on full display here
Obviously if the cost of a day out goes down by 15%, more people will be able to afford days out. HTH
Yes but that helps the middle class who can already afford days out. It doesn't help the people it's aimed at who are the ones choosing between paying the rent and turning the hot water on this week. They could do far more good by adjusting the VAT on heating oil which would help average working families in rural areas who've seen heating and hot water bills double since February.
It will help quite a lot of working class people, not all working class people are too poor to contemplate leisure u dill
I have never been to Alton Towers. Trufax
It’s not that good tbh although it’s better than all the southern ones like Chessington. The only thing I really like at theme parks is the roller coasters
Is dawn handbags in the room with us now?
She surely is.
Also I think Sailo’s assumptions as to who this is targeting are not entirely justified. The better off working class / less wealthy middle class are an important swing constituency and have been since at least Thatcher’s time (spit). I think Labour know exactly who they are targeting and guess what, it isn’t necessarily breadlinere, no
Wot Laz said. It's the "squeezed middle" (self-identifying for given values of "squeezed" and "middle")
P.s. in answer to the OP, "no". I prefer a better ratio of "time doing things" to "time spent standing in queue to do things"
It's not VAT free. VAT is being reduced to 5% on the kid's ticket price only.
We all know the beat theme park in Europe is Blackgang Chine
Also what risky said tbf
Blackgang chine does look good, have always been intrigued since my cousins went in the 80s. Cool name too never been myself.
“Helen Miller, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank, said the measures would lead to some savings, but estimated they would equate to an "average saving of around £10 per UK household".
Don’t spend it all at once
"Blackgang chine does look good, have always been intrigued since my cousins went in the 80s. Cool name too never been myself."
Heh, I was joking, it is totally ballbag (or was ehen I last went, also in the 80s).
Unless you like unconvincing plastic iguanadons.
We drove into the car park of Blackgang Chine last year, it wasn't open and, frankly, didn't look that appealing other than from a historical perspective.
Last went to AT in the mid 90s with a then g/f. Tensed up so tight on Nemesis I pulled a thigh muscle and could barely walk for a week.
Is the ferry to the Isle of Widget still the most expensive public transport in the world per mile?
Something like that. One of the chaps who frequents our local lives near Newport but runs a business not far from here. He comes over to the north island on Mondays and goes back on Thurs and says the cost is outrageous but presumably he's expensing it along with the cost of living in the pub for three nights a week.
Ah the IoW, played many a match there. Happy days.
I thought the tube had that nailed. CVT garden to Leicester sq.
Wang I believe it's certainly more expensive per mile than going on the QEII or similar. I believe they are getting hydrofoiling new high speed ferries and they'll need to pay for those but I thought there were cheaper fares if you live on the little island because it's the only way you can get out.
There's definitely some discounts from the operators. Moving north though it always amused me that on the Severn road bridge you paid to get into Wales from England but not the other way round. Missing a trick there. I'd pay substantially more to get out of Wales than to get into it.
It’s an imperialist wheeze to persuade the Welsh to leave. Not sure the full implications have ever been thought through.
I don't think there is a toll on the 7 bridge any more is there?
I also toured the isle of wight back in the day. I am sure all the players on the sandown and shanklin team shared four or five chromosomes
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