RE: Fair Pint founder Dodds to be evicted on Friday

Just re read the article in detail, please bear in mind I've been rushing around preparing to exit the place where I live and have done business for 16 years, there was a lot to do.

The S&NPC person says: "We believed that we had reached an amicable settlement plan with the lessee on the terms that he offered at court in June".

They really are a bunch of total idiots. I did not exactly 'offer terms' at all.

I've been arguing since April 2005 that increased rent would kill my business. I know my business, my area of London, and what it can and can't afford and I've always offered S&NPC a completely open look at my accounts so they know there's no posturing or bluffing going on.

My defence in court was that S&NPC had wilfully tried to put me out of business because, in spite of all evidence that any increase would close the business (they even argued that income would GO UP when the smoking ban came in) they simply tried to put me out of business by pursuing as much of an uplift as they thought they could get in their stupid collywaddle traditional pubcodom mumbo jumbo inspired rent review nonsense everyone in this industry adheres to divisible balance and all that.

As all pubcos do S&NPC use the dark blue suit 'lick finger and put it in the accredited air method' - guess how much this fly by night thieving scumbag tenant is stashing in their back pocket every year, contast that with how much cash bonus you'll get if you get the tenant's illegal cash into 'The Business's' (that's what they call the pubco) account then double it. And maybe Treble it for good measure just to keep the tenant in place and so they know who's boss.

If the tenant rolls over and pays the increase it confirms they are thieving scumbags because they can afford it. If they dispute it it means they are conniving scumbags as well as being thieving scumbags and they DESERVE to go under. If they do go under then they were probably honest publicans and they deserved to go under because they ARE NOT lying cheating thieving scumbags and they should be doing something respectable with their hard earned life saving instead of dipping their toes into the cut and thrust of the testosterone driven pub trade.

They are all, well I cannot use words like that in public, even though it's true.