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Champagne & Fromage opening in Brixton soon

Just checked out the forthcoming champagne store's prices at its Covent Garden branch.

They are having a laugh if they think people will pay from £50 to £110 a bottle.
 
Gramsci said:
... does not stop me resenting the inequality I see around London.

A lot of these people live in a different world from the rest of us.
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The problem with these ridiculous property prices (and we disagree on what causes them) is that they further entrench inequality.

The opportunities in London will go only to those who can afford to live here, crushing social/geographical mobility.
 
This one's destined for failure.

BTW, was there any follow-up on the fact that most of these new places dont have planning permission? And are breaking various health and safety laws?
 
Ms T said:
As I said earlier, I think they've seriously misjudged the demographic. Maybe they'll start selling blanc de blancs or cremant instead (French version of cava).
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Esp when you can do it cheaper by going to cannon and cannon to get your cheese and then getting some fizz from market row wines and have at the barrels.
 
yup. muuch as i like fizzy wine and strong cheeses, I'm not going to be paying upwards of £50 a bottle to sit in brixton village. because it's not in itself a lovely eating environment, either.
 
Gramsci said:
That however does not stop me resenting the inequality I see around London.

A lot of these people live in a different world from the rest of us.
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They really do.

I'm a lot happier in many ways since leaving London; I just don't have that feeling of powerlessness in relation to inequality that I had living in Brixton and paying £1000 a month rent on a low salary and no way out of that. The resentment is corrosive and I'm glad to be largely free of that degree of it.
 
spanglechick said:
yup. muuch as i like fizzy wine and strong cheeses, I'm not going to be paying upwards of £50 a bottle to sit in brixton village. because it's not in itself a lovely eating environment, either.
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Yup. Have to say that most of the town centre pubs offer a nicer environment to drink champagne in compared to the village. I guess the village lends itself to coffee, bottles of beer, burritos, burgers and cake.

Hardly a £30-40 a head fine dining venue. Imagine paying for champagne and posh nibbles, then queuing to pay for the toilet between glasses.
 
Agree with all of this ^^

Their brand isn't particularly well-chosen if they end up having to diversify either :hmm:
 
Badgers said:
Yup. Have to say that most of the town centre pubs offer a nicer environment to drink champagne in compared to the village. I guess the village lends itself to coffee, bottles of beer, burritos, burgers and cake.

Hardly a £30-40 a head fine dining venue. Imagine paying for champagne and posh nibbles, then queuing to pay for the toilet between glasses.
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it'll be just like going to glasters, ya?

/maybe they'll install toilets? who knows! no one. that's who.
 
stuff_it said:
Someone should get people together to do a comedy protest outside when it opens - "white lighning and cheese strings".
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That would be excellent publicity for them. I recon that if you arranged that they'd throw you a couple of bottles of champagne for your efforts. I'd be well up for getting pissed on champagne, and a bit of cheese on the side, if I wasn't paying!
 
They may feel brave in their enclave. Drinking champagne in public in an age of austerity is a political act. It is a provocation too far. They will be mocked!
 
Dexter Deadwood said:
They may feel brave in their enclave. Drinking champagne in public in an age of austerity is a political act. It is a provocation too far. They will be mocked!
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If only we'd had a revolution like that of France, where public acts of champagne drinking are politically neutral.
 
TruXta said:
Hang on, maybe scurvy could be the next hipster thing? "I'm so hip I no longer do vitamins A through C".
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by the look of a lot of them, they live on nicotine and ketamine. such skinny arms! and legs like fucking matchsticks. no wonder they're always getting mugged, can't fight back.
 
sparkybird said:
I recently went to a cat cafe in Tokyo... out of curiosity really (I do like cats and do have one at home)

It was WEIRD! felt kinda dirty being in there, although all the cats were very happy and well looked after. It was the people that were odd!
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My friend went to one in Tokyo. She likes cats. Not easy to keep pets in Tokyo as its so crowded. Do not see need for cat cafe in London. London is cat city anyway.
 
Manter said:
Many, I imagine, would say 'but we worked for it'- inherited wealth is pretty much universally derided but the great myth of the current inequality is that that's its a meritocracy. I think everyone in a fortunate position is trying to kid themselves that privilege is not entrenched.
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It also usual for the well off to over estimate what the average person earns.

The idea of meritocracy was criticised by sociologist Michael Young back in 40s and 50s.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment

The more recent usage of the word came from him. It was forgotten he wrote a satire on the concept of meritocracy.

He saw a change from status based on birth to the growth of elite groups who perpetuate there power.

I think he is accurate about the way education is used to filter people. Also that politics has been largely taken over by people who went to LSE / Oxford / Cambridge. See some of our local Labour ward Cllrs for example.

Also true that in his time during the 40s Labour politicians came from the shop floor so to speak. That does not happen now. I see able people who should be people our Labour Cllrs work with. And encourage to be involved in local politics. They do not. The Labour party in Lambeth does not want the kind of people that Young says were in the party in earlier times.

Had someone having a go at me recently. Using the fact that they went to Oxford to show that they could do things and I just did not understand that. To cut a long story short I ended up sorting the issue out. They never got around to it. It still feels a real put down. As my education is patchy to say the least.
 
Gramsci said:
he is accurate about the way education is used to filter people.
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England cricket team is another case in point, as the Times pointed out yesterday

Six of the nine schooled in the UK were educated in the private sector.

In 1983, it was only two out of 11.
 
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