To not tip (in the UK?)

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I've just been reading the tipping in America thread with interest, and it got me thinking about tips here in the UK.
Do you tip? I don't. Even if I think the service was lovely. They're getting paid to do their job, and if the argument is that they don't get paid much so it tops up their wages, then surely that's their employers fault - they should pay them more.
Which they're never going to do, are they, if the customers are going to pay their staff for them.
Eating out is a lot of money to people at the moment (well, it is here anyway!) so to have to pay out even more is sometimes hard.
As for hairdressers?! It wouldn't even occur to me. They get paid for the job they do.
Surely I'm not the only one who doesn't tip?
Never posted an AIBU so don't be too mean.

In the uk I don't generally tip. I would tip in a restaurant provided the service was good or I was in a group. I would round a cab fare up but generally to the nearest pound or close round number. But I'm like this as, in my culture, tipping is not expected and few do it (although maybe this is changing). I was a waitress and never expected tips. It was a much easier job than others I've had where I think I would have cried if anyone had showed their appreciation in cash!

I would buy gifts for the cleaner and childminder at Christmas or other festival relevant to them.

If I tip its just a couple of pound..

But I wont tip when with 2 young children and a disabled person we have to wait 2 hours for a table, the food then takes another hour and half to 2 hours to come out, by which point the kids are grumpy its past their bedtimes.

I dont mind having to wait for a table but 2 hours takes the piss, when its a place you cannot book yet people coming in after get seated first. There is one waiter who always gets a good tip his a friend anyway and for my SIL's birthday he got a £20 tip just for putting a candle in her dessert and signing happy birthday and then tipped for the overall meal experience

I have said his on the other thread, but i don't tip my hairdresser. i think 20% of £120 would be extortionate. I like the way they do my hair so i save and go 3 times per year, but if i tipped too it would be prohibitively expensive.

Different if you go to a local salon which charges £20 and has a sat girls washing hair.

Also, I do tip 10% in restaurants unless service is awful. But i know waiting staff who have dreadful experiences. One had their tips used to make up their wages. One had all tips put into a pot and given out to staff at xmas - so if you worked from jan-nov you got fuck all but if you started in December you got a years worth - totally unfair. And one friend just didn't get any tips at all, the owners took the lot.

I always tip in restaurants (unless really bad service), or for room service in a hotel, as it seems rude not to.

Taxi drivers I would say 'keep the change' if it's say £18 and I give them a 20.

Don't tip anyone else really. It would seem awkward at the hairdressers. And bin men? I never really even see them!