Steve Browning

Just looked and they're distributed in the UK by Rotosdound. Happy days!! I sent my newly delivered 1983 '62 Precision reissue back to Fender because the scratchplate looked so awful. I was put off Spitfire by an extraordinary tale of woe on BC a few years ago.

But it's a perfectly valid argument and one most people can understand.

That must be a real freak occurrence. Having visited the factory, I can tell you that each person makes one string each day and the strings are packed by hand (which is something to watch I can assure you!). Getting the wrong sizes in a pack would be close to impossible. That's not suggesting that hasn't happened, but the chances are infinitesimally small. I'd be buying a lottery ticket.

Blimey Simon. There's bound to be one where you are (and I don't say that as someone coming from Pompey - we have our own variety).

Surely you just put the price of tap water up to £5 a pint (I think it's only free when served with food), free to band members (as some drink water 'onstage'). Possibly under-investing in bar staff gives the seagull his reward.

Yes. I like it for the tune being played. Nice groove.

There is that!!!

There are some reliefs available for goods that are temporarily imported for processing and then exported but that won't be available on all goods in all circumstances.

Everywhere really. So many of history's lessons not learned.

I think it's what that means 'on the ground' that I fear. I agree with that analysis (at the moment!!) but where does that lead? We may guess but we simply don't know.

I think this is what scares me the most about all this. Rational I can handle. I may disagree with saomething but if I see rationality behind it, I can understand (though not necessarily agree). Currently, there is lawlessness that appears to have the backing of those who would apply the checks and balances. It seems to me that we are in a time where we simply cannot predict any outcome with any certainty. The more wayward factions (the world over) seem to have a pretty tight grip on things and I fear for the future. Not so much in a nuclear Winter kind of way but pretty everything short of that.

I was slightly generalising. Food sold above ambient temperature becomes a service of catering and standard rated. Everything else is food and sold according to the Law That's why chocolate Nesquik is standard rated and strawberry isn't. 😂

I should add that a supermarket cafe charges VAT on catering in exactly the same way as a pub/restaurant.

Tim is wrong. The reason is in my answer. A pub provides a service of catering. That is why it is standard rated. It doesn't sell food. A supermarket doesn't prepare it, cook it and serve it. It doesn't pay staff to do those jobs either.