On Oct 9, 11:52*pm, charles wrote:
In article , Tim Watts









wrote:
GMM wrote:
My local butchers used to have a *counter selling cooked chickens and
other hot stuff. *Went in there the other day and it was gone, replaced
by a 'deli' counter, selling imported cooked meats, olives and stuff
like that. Apparently they concluded that nobody would pay the extra
20%, so decided to try selling over-priced imported stuff instead. *Oh,
and they had to lose one member of staff in the process.

A bit allegorical really: *Nothing they had done over the past couple
of years has been thought through, so nothing has achieved anything
useful ...apart from pleasing the Daily Mail, of course.
VAT really has become a complete disgrace - 8.5% and 12.5% were
acceptible.
1/5 extra is not. Especially when you know they are just going to waste
half of it.

but it's about the Euro norm.

Talking about that sort of thing
http://www.th-eu-nit.com/index.php/a...g-old-jam-jars

What a load of ********.