Ivory Peg, Chelmsford - pub details
Address: 4/7 New London Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 0NA [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 10311) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Chelmsford (0.3 miles)
Chain: Wetherspoons
Pub facilities/features:
- Food served, Real ale
- Wireless internet access (provided by The Cloud)
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> Current user rating: 4.5/10 (rated by 26 users)
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By the way, as a member of the ruling class, yes, I went to a public school, and qualified in the professions, (much bloody good it did me!) I would just like to make the point that these guys you all like i.e. Farage, Martin, Sunak et al, were the dropouts from that system. They may have Plummy voices, and a nice taste in suits, but they were /are despised by us. They were the sort of bods who got a good wedgie or a bogwash periodically at school to try and teach them their place, but they just didn't listen. Rather than take those lessons onboard they became bitter and decided to to curry favour with you by advocating Brexit and various other muscle flexing bullshit. Don't trust em. Jay28 - 30 Mar 2024 01:56 |
| I referred to the chairman of Wetherspoons PLC as the "owner" because he acts like it.... However, it appears that he sold his company on the stock exchange (presumably to make wads of cash$$), so it seems that you and I own it!!! through our pension contributions/ our private dabbles in the stock market etc. So what gives this gobshite the right to preach his views to us? He acts like he owns the company, but he doesn't, we do. Maybe I should be able to have a poster on the bar advocating a rise in staff wages, or free pints for refugees? etc. I could go on.... Maybe we could have a vote on what gets said in these posters... oh, we do, it's called the Company AGM, and we all get a say. How marvellous. Just what Maggie Thatcher wanted us all to have. So why do we allow these posing twerps to pretend they own companies that they don't, and to use them as political wrecking balls for their own ends? Might the Brexit vote, for example, have tilted a bit the other way if we had not had the "owner" of Wetherspoons spouting, what we all now know to be nonsense, in our ears, while we happened to be pissed up in the pub! Maybe, Maybe, Maybe not. Jay28 - 29 Mar 2024 23:38 |
| Hulots-hat, Thomas Paine knew a thing or too. I wonder if what riled him up so much that he crossed the Atlantic and wrote the US constitution was something like them putting up a billboard in his local pub forcing you to read the squire’s view on an issue of the day? I was once caught reading “The Rights of Man”. In a pub not far from the one we are posting about now. It was a masonic evening and a lot of older gents in smart black suits were lingering around. I got engaged in conversation by a gaggle of them… what are you reading?…. Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man… isn’t that all a bit simplistic for the modern age?… no…. Oh, so you think you are smarter than all of us then?… no…that’s all been discredited now and it’s a bit left wing isn’t it…. I don’t think so…backs were turned and more important conversations were attended to about the relative merits of the new Jaguar, and how Fred had recently landed a contract for houses to be built etc. etc. Your comment is pertinent. Jay28 - 29 Feb 2024 21:47 |
| It was Tom Paine, I think, who said "The English will fight to the death for the right to have no rights" Jay. Hulots_hat - 21 Feb 2024 16:00 |
| Forget the food, forget the drink. This pub’s primary function is as a political billboard. It always had that in-house magazine where the owner spouted his political views on the extended op-ed pages. The mag also contained reviews of his own pubs and reviews of his own products. Guess what, the consensus was that they were pretty good. Who would have thought it? The beauty of the mag was that you didn’t have to read it. However, this pub has now decided to up the ante and has placed a billboard on the bar explaining how the owner triumphed over the evil gutter press who dared to print something about his policies towards staff during COVID 19. So now when I go to order a pint I am faced with this nonsense. I can’t escape it. I asked the bar manager whether the poster reflected her views (after all, she was probably at the sharp end of the thing, and might know what the truth was about those allegations of a PLC constructively dismissing its staff because it feared for its profit?). She said “we have to put that up there” Well, indeed. Having brought our Country to its knees fighting fascism in 2 world wars for the principle of being able to think, do and say what ever we bloody well like, we now have to face the ugly truth of fascism from New Zealand!!! Wow. I could see it coming from the Germans and the Russians, but the Kiwis? That one blindsided me I have to say. Next time you swill your pint in wetherspoons, reflect upon this. The beer may turn sour in your mouth and a bilious reaction set in, building to a strong feeling of resentment. Don’t worry, this is quite natural and simply happens to any true bred Briton when he or she is taken for a fool. George Orwell, stated in his book 1984 that the future was a boot stamping on a human face… forever. That is starting to sound like a relatively benign prediction. After all, the boot stamping thing might at least have been done in private. Nowadays, it would be on social media, and displayed on the top of the bar in your favourite watering-hole. Jay28 - 14 Feb 2024 18:57 |
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