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VAT change will be used to hide 8pc price rise - Telegraph

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    VAT change will be used to hide 8pc price rise - Telegraph

    I think I'll scrap the gym membership if fees do go up close to 8%.

    VAT change will be used to hide 8pc price rise - Telegraph




    It's not inflation, it's a(another) unexpected one-off
    --Bank of England

    #2
    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    I think I'll scrap the gym membership if fees do go up close to 8%.
    Yes, do that and become like this chap:

    Broken heart made world's fattest man Paul Mason 70 stone but cost taxpayer £1m | Mail Online

    (Not Safe For Eyes!)

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    Apparently BoE will jack up rates this year by at least 50%, now that's some inflation

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      #3
      Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
      I think I'll scrap the gym membership if fees do go up close to 8%.

      VAT change will be used to hide 8pc price rise - Telegraph

      It's not inflation, it's a(another) unexpected one-off
      --Bank of England

      David Lloyd, THE ROBBING BASTRDS have put mine up from 130pcm to 155pcm
      "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


      Thomas Jefferson

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        #4
        Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
        David Lloyd, THE ROBBING BASTRDS have put mine up from 130pcm to 155pcm
        When? I'm with David Lloyd, but I didn't tell them I'd moved, so I will not have received any letters from them. Don't you also have to give 3 months notice to escape?

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          #5
          Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
          David Lloyd, THE ROBBING BASTRDS have put mine up from 130pcm to 155pcm
          David Lloyd is just a shortened version of I Saw You Coming. This lot have a 24/7 gym for £16 a month, with a rolling month-by-month contract:

          Gym West London, Guildford, Surrey, Gyms Hounslow Richmond
          "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come." -- Lester Freamon

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            #6
            Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
            When? I'm with David Lloyd, but I didn't tell them I'd moved, so I will not have received any letters from them. Don't you also have to give 3 months notice to escape?
            Yep. Fckin closed Market where I am. That is a family subscription

            Originally posted by Freamon View Post
            David Lloyd is just a shortened version of I Saw you coming
            Yep, they are
            "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


            Thomas Jefferson

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