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There's a quite a lot of pubs that are
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to use my scientific classification
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absolutely [ __ ] London pubs are
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[ __ ] New business rate hikes mean
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costs are going through the roof. But
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one Londoner, a guy called Ben Garrett,
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who runs a web development agency here
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in the capital, has got an idea. He set
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up ismypubfucked.com,
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a database of every pub in London
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telling you how [ __ ] they are by new
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business rate hikes. All you've got to
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do is put in your postcode and you can
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find out how [ __ ] your local is. This
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year, the value of every pub in the
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country according to the tax office is
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massively increasing. I don't know about
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you, but like you know, these pubs
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haven't necessarily, you know, doubled
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their turnover or, you know, the land's
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not worth twice as much more as it was
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before. So, some of these massive
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increases in the rateable value of these
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pubs have been quite surprising to a lot
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of people. And last year, I think it was
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one pub closed every single day on
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average in the UK. Since I launched this
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website, I've seen on Twitter four or
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five pubs that have all closed,
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including one just around the corner
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from me, because costs of running a
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business is too high. People are angry.
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People are frustrated. Their favorite
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local venues that, you know, are such a
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key part of their community are
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struggling to get by. And this is a
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choice. It doesn't have to be this way.
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I think the main thing for the website
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is to help you decide which of your many
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is worth a visit, you know, today,
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tomorrow, next week, whenever you're
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going to catch up with your friends. You
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might have three or four pubs that you
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regularly go to, and one of them might
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be more hardly hit than the others. So,
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it probably do really do with your
