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How are Labour doing after their first 12 months

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Was thinking what prices do I pay...Spoons will be somewhere between £2-£3 a pint, roughly about £2.50

Other pubs generally less than a fiver, again about £4.50

There is one place I use that is more than a fiver, £6 but you know that before you walk in the door, they do deals though so it depends on when you go.

It all depends on what you want, I'd go to Spoons if I'm just after cheap and cheerful.

If I want to watch football or play pool with my lad then we pay a bit more for somewhere else to get that.

The higher prices are generally mid-range eating place, that are purely more restaurant based - you can just drink if you prefer the atmosphere and don't mind paying for it.

Then you've got micropubs which I think are about £4, but I generally only do that if I'm going football, because there's a decent one in Gillingham.

Some places in Rochester is the higher end prices, so if you go somewhere like Olivers you'll end up paying fiver a bottle or more. IF you want cocktails then that is going to cost you a tenner a throw, but you know that before you walk in the door, again look out for the deals, 2 for £12.

Think I'd rather buy a bottle of wine and share it than pay tenner a throw for a cocktail. Everyone to their own.

Althought there is an Italian restaurant in Rochester, think it's an independent (Mama Mia) and I think you do pay about £8 a bottle there but again that's a choice. You are not really going there for the drinking. You also have to take in account it's 2 min walk from the Cathedral and Castle.

So you choose your place and pay the price.
 
brb said:
It's not £8 a pint, although I can probably imagine the demographics of Cornwall's posh white people encouraging those sort of prices.

I've never paid £8 for a pint of beer outside of the City, wherever I've gone. It might be that in plush areas and the City, but it's not most places so you are chatting your usual ****ing bollocks.

@luvgonzo had a couple of beers yesterday, I bet he paid around £8 for both. Even my local which is ****ing expensive for my area don't charge £8 a pint.

You need to stop crying over Brexit, just because your £3.5k pushbike cost a bit more, if you can afford to pay that, you are not the demographics that I'm chatting about that Rachel from accounts has totally butt ****ed out of a job.

As for not drinking anymore, you would have been the last person on here I would have took as a drinker, so again talking bollocks.

You live somewhere where you could go without seeing another person for miles, so you aint qualified to talk on this **** bro.

I'm sure the poor people you use to bang on about in your area, will be pleased to know you spent £34 on a fish supper, you could feed a poor family for a week on that....but you wouldn;t understand.

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Wetherspoon pub selling pints for £1.49 - and could be the cheapest in London

An East London Wetherspoon pub, The Walnut Tree, is selling pints of Ruddles Best and Greene King IPA for £1.49, which could be a record low for the capital as beer prices rise
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Don't tell him that's 2022 <whistle> BEFORE Labour got into power.
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brb said:
Was thinking what prices do I pay...Spoons will be somewhere between £2-£3 a pint, roughly about £2.50

Other pubs generally less than a fiver, again about £4.50

There is one place I use that is more than a fiver, £6 but you know that before you walk in the door, they do deals though so it depends on when you go.

It all depends on what you want, I'd go to Spoons if I'm just after cheap and cheerful.

If I want to watch football or play pool with my lad then we pay a bit more for somewhere else to get that.

The higher prices are generally mid-range eating place, that are purely more restaurant based - you can just drink if you prefer the atmosphere and don't mind paying for it.

Then you've got micropubs which I think are about £4, but I generally only do that if I'm going football, because there's a decent one in Gillingham.

Some places in Rochester is the higher end prices, so if you go somewhere like Olivers you'll end up paying fiver a bottle or more. IF you want cocktails then that is going to cost you a tenner a throw, but you know that before you walk in the door, again look out for the deals, 2 for £12.

Think I'd rather buy a bottle of wine and share it than pay tenner a throw for a cocktail. Everyone to their own.

Althought there is an Italian restaurant in Rochester, think it's an independent (Mama Mia) and I think you do pay about £8 a bottle there but again that's a choice. You are not really going there for the drinking. You also have to take in account it's 2 min walk from the Cathedral and Castle.

So you choose your place and pay the price.
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Spoons do a £1.49 and £1.69 pint around here. They've also stepped up and got a couple of craft beers on keg that are decent.
 
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luvgonzo said:
Spoons do a £1.49 and £1.69 pint around here. They've also stepped up and got a couple of craft beers on keg that are decent.
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Blimey that is really good, I have seen them prices before but not for a while. Think Spoons were doing some tax promotion months back, where they want the government to remove the duty (I think).
 
Need the days of pint of twos back, think it was called something else up North. Bitter and a bottle of courage ale, i think it was. Always seemed a bargain for what you paid - you get a pint glass 3/4 filled with bitter than a bottle of courage for you to add and top up.

I'd be tempted to go in a pub and ask for it, but I know I'll just get some bar person staring at me thinking wtf.

@Gessa will know, @Archers Road might even know.
 
brb said:
Need the days of pint of twos back, think it was called something else up North. Bitter and a bottle of courage ale, i think it was. Always seemed a bargain for what you paid - you get a pint glass 3/4 filled with bitter than a bottle of courage for you to add and top up.

I'd be tempted to go in a pub and ask for it, but I know I'll just get some bar person staring at me thinking wtf.

@Gessa will know, @Archers Road might even know.
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Seem to remember it being called light and bitter.
Don't recall it being that populat though, more working mens club goers rather than pub goers would drink it

Also remember, I presume most places called these the same or similar
Black and Tan Half bitter, half lager
Pint of mixed, half bitter half mild
Snakebite which everywhere calls it and nutters drank it
Poor mans black velvet Guiness and cider.
Not forgetting mackie and vimto.
We did have an old fella in a club id go in,have a pint of best(bitter) and a bottle of barley wine, drink the top off the bitter and kept topping it up with the barley wine, remember he had a good few each night and walk out looking as sober as he walked in, barley wine was lethal stuff.
 
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Gessa said:
Seem to remember it being called light and bitter.
Don't recall it being that populat though, more working mens club goers rather than pub goers would drink it

Also remember, I presume most places called these the same or similar
Black and Tan Half bitter, half lager
Pint of mixed, half bitter half mild
Snakebite which everywhere calls it and nutters drank it
Poor mans black velvet Guiness and cider.
Not forgetting mackie and vimto.
We did have an old fella in a club id go in,have a pint of best(bitter) and a bottle of barley wine, drink the top off the bitter and kept topping it up with the barley wine, remember he had a good few each night and walk out looking as sober as he walked in, barley wine was lethal stuff.
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That's it mate, light and bitter.
 
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£9 for a pint in the local on the bottom of my road
luvgonzo said:
Spoons do a £1.49 and £1.69 pint around here. They've also stepped up and got a couple of craft beers on keg that are decent.
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Wtf are you drinking in spoons for £1.49 the drip trays?
 
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Sucky said:
£9 for a pint in the local on the bottom of my road

Wtf are you drinking in spoons for £1.49 the drip trays?
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Where are you mate, Fulham way, I can never remember....then you wonder why you are paying £9 a pint, although you never actually said that, you said it was the price of your local pub.
 
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Our spoons , the ruddles is £1.79, £1.49 on a Monday.
Casks are £2.39- £2.49 £2.15 on a Monday and Tuesday.
Guinness £3.89 £2.99 Monday
They've just started doing Murphy's , not tried it yet, £2.99.
Most pubs by us are £3.80- £4.50 a pint of cask,go to the country pubs and its £5.50- £6.00.
Things like Neck Oil are £6.50 everywhere
 
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Gessa said:
Seem to remember it being called light and bitter.
Don't recall it being that populat though, more working mens club goers rather than pub goers would drink it

Also remember, I presume most places called these the same or similar
Black and Tan Half bitter, half lager
Pint of mixed, half bitter half mild
Snakebite which everywhere calls it and nutters drank it
Poor mans black velvet Guiness and cider.
Not forgetting mackie and vimto.
We did have an old fella in a club id go in,have a pint of best(bitter) and a bottle of barley wine, drink the top off the bitter and kept topping it up with the barley wine, remember he had a good few each night and walk out looking as sober as he walked in, barley wine was lethal stuff.
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I used to drink some of that ****e

And by some I mean a lot

Guinness and cider

Snakebite and black, which was half lager, half cider and a dash of blackcurrant

And Gold label, a horrible barley wine.

When my dad was working, they had a social club attached to the workplace where we used to go. All the old boys in there would be drinking light & bitter, stouts and mild etc.
 
brb said:
Oh and we need to bring back smoking in small pubs....people are getting too expensive to keep into retirement. Need to kill a few off. :bandit:
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I agree. We're all living too long, and what's the ****ing point when you can't afford to retire until you're 70, and 10 years later you're ****ting your pants in a care home, where you sit and rot for a further 10 years? Seen it with my mum and dad; both okay until they got to 80, after that it's been pretty grim. Grandparents all died in their 70s, except my Nan who was 86 but didn't leave the house for 10 years.

If I was sure I'd drop dead at 75 on my way home from football, I'd retire tomorrow and take that.

My mum used to worry when me and my old dad went off to St Mary's together, but I thought if we won and he died coming out of the ground, that's a win double.
 
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