Was really looking forward to lunch today at The Golden Lion in Brixham with family. I’d heard lots of good things about it, so I was quite excited.
We’d booked a table for eight set for today over a week ago. There were young children in the party so you’re relieved when you have a place booked.
Then, last minute, they CANCELLED us.
Apparently we hadn’t followed a procedure sent by text. A text that never arrived.
The booking was made by phone an over a week earlier. Nobody mentioned that process then.
The day before they suddenly wanted bank details not over the phone, only via text instructions that we never received.
We said, politely, that cancelling an eight-person family booking at the last minute with kids involved was unprofessional and not good customer service as well as not being fair.
What we got on the phone was not an apology. It was a barrage of abuse and expletives. One of the owners, Jay or Alex, called my sister-in-law a “thick c**nt” and told her not to come back.
She was in floods of tears. Completely shaken by the way she was spoken to which was inappropriate and revolting.
That is out of order.
If you can’t deal with customers, you shouldn’t be in the hospitality trade. And if you use foul, abusive language like that to a customer, it is completely unacceptable.
A last-minute cancellation of a family table of eight is bad enough. Speaking to someone like that is completely unacceptable. There is no excuse.
A good pub sorts a booking problem. It doesn’t swear at the customer and tell them never to come back.
We’re posting this so people know how this venue handled it. A pub should not get away with calling a customer a thick c**nt.
PLEASE MAKE THE GOLDEN LION IN BRIXHAM FAMOUS!!!
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The Golden Lion @brixgoldenlion
65 New Road, Brixham, TQ5 8NL
Owners and Landlords: Jay Davidson and Alex
Capital gains taxes make no sense & shouldn't exist
I invest my capital. I create the opportunity. I take the risk. I do the work. I take the chances. I accept the losses if things go wrong
So why should the government collect a slice when things go right?
They didn’t take the risk. They didn’t build the business. They just take
Owning a £400,000 house with a £350,000 mortgage in the UK in 2026 means signing a 25-year contract to give the bank around £2,050 a month, in exchange for the right to maintain a building you'll spend another £4,000 a year keeping dry, warm and structurally sound.
At a 5% fixed rate, the total interest over the life of the mortgage is around £264,000. The total mortgage cost ends up at roughly £614,000.
The price tag on the front door says £400K. The actual cost of living in it for 25 years is closer to £750K, before council tax, repairs, insurance and the new boiler.
This is what the country has been calling 'getting on the ladder.'
🚨 Good morning to the millions of everyday Brits waking up right now to go to work and pay their taxes.
Just a quick reminder before you start your daily commute. You are paying the highest taxes in British history to a political establishment that actively despises you.
You are getting up early and working yourself to the bone to fund luxury hotels for illegal migrants, bloated green vanity projects, and a Labour government that is busy plotting how to surrender our borders back to the EU. They are using your hard earned money to fund the managed decline of your own nation. Do not let them normalize this. Have a great day, and retweet if you are absolutely sick of footing the bill! 🇬🇧☕️📉
At this point prices in The UK are just made up:
What do you mean a return train to London is £140?
How is a weekend away in England £600? I can go abroad for a week for that!
Why is a house that was £700 a month a few years ago now £1500 a month?
How is a full tank of fuel now costing more than £100?
Why is my car insurance going up every year on the same car with no claims?
How is 2 carrier bags of shopping costing me nearly £100?
We're honestly done aren't we.
🇬🇧 According to Keir Starmer, this is a far-right extremist
His eloquent and clear explanation of why the UK is morally and financially bankrupt is eye-opening
This guy's more of a statesman than 99% of MPs
So, just to make sure I've got this right...
I can punch and break a female police officer nose on camera, and get away with it.
But if I write a few words on the internet I can go to prison for over 2 years.
Got it.
People think that everything became more expensive, when what has really happened is the value of your money has been destroyed
A minimum wage week in 1971 was £16 a week
Gold was £17/oz, so it took about one week of work to buy 1oz of Gold
Now a minimum wage week is
£508.40 & Gold is £3,544
Which means is now takes SEVEN weeks to buy ONE oz of Gold
You have to work SEVEN times as long, for the same ‘real’ moneyCan you see what’s really happening?!
So the minimum wage just went up and the government is very proud of itself.
Here is what they are not telling you.
Your wage goes up. Your tax goes up. Your National Insurance goes up. HMRC takes its cut before you see a penny of that £1,500.
Now your employer is paying more for every single person on their books. They are not absorbing that. Nobody absorbs that. So prices go up.
The coffee you buy on the way to work costs more. The lunch you grab costs more. The haircut costs more. All of it costs more because the people serving you are now on higher wages too, and their employers did exactly the same thing.
So you got a pay rise, and everything got more expensive at the same time. Almost like it cancelled out.
If they actually wanted workers to keep more money they would cut their tax. That's it. That's the whole idea.
But that would mean the government collecting less. So instead they raise the minimum wage, taking a cut on the way in and benefit from the price rises on the way out through VAT, and call it a historic day for working people.
Option 1, rent a house for $2500/month
Option 2, give the bank $100,000 and pretend you own a house for $4000/month knowing $2700 is going to interest.
A Scottish grandmother posted the following today, and the whole incident has sickened me.
"This is my grandson, Lucas, being attacked by a gang of Asian youths.
Lucas attends BELLAHOUSTON ACADEMY in Glasgow.
Lucas is 12 and from the day he started at this school, he has been bullied for being white and little bit overweight plus he is tall for his age.
Lucas has ADHD and a degree of Autism.
These youths are from his school and are older.
They told him they will Rape, Stab or Shoot his mother.
They are terrorising the whole area and have been for around a year. We have now involved the Police, Media and written to the Board of Education.
He is terrified to go back to school, Lucas is the kindest boy you could ever wish to meet.
This has to stop".
Make these little rats famous!