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Labour to introduce Cheese Tax

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DadJoke · 26/09/2024 19:01

The total cheese market in the UK is £4.5bn annually. I've heard that Labour will be taxing cheese at 20%, raising almost £1bn, which will be used to fund research into vegan alternatives. As a cheese lover I strenously object.

In the spirit of other threads which speculate wildly about taxes and benefit cuts Labour will definitely introduce, tell me something you are sure Labour will put forward at the budget. Links are optional. Trust me, bro is evidence.

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DadJoke · 26/09/2024 20:16

Pebbles16 · 26/09/2024 20:08

For the Fail not to be interested this really must be a non-story. And I hate to break it to you but the BCB hasn't existed since 2015. It became part of Dairy UK and my mate Sophie (Comms Director) describes your post as utter pish

You don't really expect me to back down and admit this is a just a scare story based on evidence!

Brian in accounts is old-school and still calls it the BCB. He doesn't think much of Sophie, and she would say that, wouldn't she?

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Silviasilvertoes · 26/09/2024 20:16

For a moment, there, my blood pressure shot up.

Araminta1003 · 26/09/2024 20:16

Who needs cam-em-bert when you have the CAMDENBEAR? Bearing down.

Whine-o’clock? Thursday is the new Friday

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DadJoke · 26/09/2024 20:17

Silviasilvertoes · 26/09/2024 20:16

For a moment, there, my blood pressure shot up.

That'll be all the cheese!

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Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 26/09/2024 20:17

My dogs implemented the cheese tax ages ago.

butterpuffed · 26/09/2024 20:17

DadJoke · 26/09/2024 19:48

I think the joke went pasteurise!

Stop milking it

MorrisZapp · 26/09/2024 20:17

The cheese tax is the warm macaroni I shovel into my mouth direct from the pan, hoping DS doesn't ask for seconds.

Silviasilvertoes · 26/09/2024 20:17

PrancerandDancer · 26/09/2024 19:16

I pay enough cheese tax to the dog without them robbing sods having some tooshakes fist

Heck, that’s true. If I had to pay tax on the cheese the dog eats too…

Emptyandsad · 26/09/2024 20:18

HotSource · 26/09/2024 19:14

UnBrieLievable!

No more cheese puns! I camembert it...

Lonelycrab · 26/09/2024 20:19

It’s like Labour just don’t give Edam

Combattingthemoaners · 26/09/2024 20:20

You won’t agree with everything they do. You have got to take the gouda with the bad.

RoseAndRose · 26/09/2024 20:21

It'll be a feta worse than death

schloss · 26/09/2024 20:21

A new tax on acronyms is the next suggestion.

GrandesRandonnees · 26/09/2024 20:22

Saschka · 26/09/2024 19:17

Liz said it best

This reminds me of the scene in Anchorman where Veronica discovers that Ron will say whatever’s on the autocue. I wondered if Truss’ speechwriters found she would just say whatever they wrote, so they just got more and more ridiculous.

RedToothBrush · 26/09/2024 20:23

This is so wrong. There should be higher rates of taxation for stronger cheese.

Stilton just is in a different league to a Cheshire.

As for Stinking Bishop...

notprincehamlet · 26/09/2024 20:26

Fake news surely
Is it? I Cantal.🤔

Sunbeamed · 26/09/2024 20:26

My dogs implemented the cheese tax ages ago.

anyone else singing the cheese tax song in their heads now. Been paying it to my cat for years.

but on a more serious note I have heard that they are taxing people who voted Leave with a one off levy to try and recuperate some of the immense monetary loss due to Brexit.

My ex husband is quite senior at the DWP and he heard it through his step son who is at the DFT.

Dpresst · 26/09/2024 20:28

The cheese tax is a song for doggies

RickyGervaislovesdogs · 26/09/2024 20:28

I already pay cheese tax … to the dog.

I don’t eat it (vegan, apologies) but vegan cheese is shit, so funding is warranted!

DadJoke · 26/09/2024 20:28

RedToothBrush · 26/09/2024 20:23

This is so wrong. There should be higher rates of taxation for stronger cheese.

Stilton just is in a different league to a Cheshire.

As for Stinking Bishop...

Stinking Bishop? Dear God, I love that stuff. Maybe we could get a religious exemption?

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LlynTegid · 26/09/2024 20:30

Today is not April 1st.

TroysMammy · 26/09/2024 20:30

Is this a stealth tax or is he treading Caerphilly?

Inslopia · 26/09/2024 20:31

Will they ever stop attacking the poor pensioners? Don’t they know we eat lots of cheese!!

FatOaf · 26/09/2024 20:32

B&Q have refused to facilitate a tacks tax

And sheep-farmers are protesting bitterly against a tick tax.

However, the Church of England is all in favour of a sin tax.