davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Welcome to capitalism.
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
- Thread starter bullybeef
- Start date
- Status
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Keeping business closed for an indefinite period and expecting the companies and government to front the wages for staff isn’t capitalism.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
...it hasn't been capitalism for a century or more.
It is the preservation of capitalist social relations though.
zzr45
#MURDERINGSCUM
2021 is a forecast, presumably not taking the previous 6 months into consideration, especially with news that it’ll be 18 months for spending to get anywhere near back to current levels. Likewise 2018 is an estimate, suggesting the figures are out of date or not particularly accurate, especially when the exact same author on the same website published a report that revenue was dropping - https://www.statista.com/statistics/558154/beverage-serving-turnover-united-kingdom-uk/
Neither does another report by the same author which shows that the number of pubs in the UK has declined, including the number of Wetherspoons pubs. They’ve gone because they don’t make money.
Change in food and drink places Great Britain 2024| Statista
Has the number of food and drink venues changed much recently in Great Britain? Between September 2023 and 2024, the overall number of venues did not change.
www.statista.com
Wetherspoon pub numbers UK 2024| Statista
How many J D Wetherspoon pubs are there in the United Kingdom and Ireland? In 2024, there were over 700 in operation.
www.statista.com
So Wetherspoons have become more profitable by acting like even bigger bastards. Tim Martin is a horrible man and yes, ideally would pay staff out of their coffers rather than use the furlough scheme. But he won’t, because he’s a massive bellend.
The rest of the industry is suffering massively and there’s a lot of good independent places that provided jobs to plenty that are on the edge. Tarring them in with the likes of Tim Martin’s mob is inane.
I'm trying to find a way of getting the name of the person who's iban it is, to no avail.
Which is why there won`t be another national lockdown, regardless of what Socialist Dave says or wishes.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
All industries will suffer - apart from Amazon!2021 is a forecast, presumably not taking the previous 6 months into consideration, especially with news that it’ll be 18 months for spending to get anywhere near back to current levels. Likewise 2018 is an estimate, suggesting the figures are out of date or not particularly accurate, especially when the exact same author on the same website published a report that revenue was dropping - https://www.statista.com/statistics/558154/beverage-serving-turnover-united-kingdom-uk/
Neither does another report by the same author which shows that the number of pubs in the UK has declined, including the number of Wetherspoons pubs. They’ve gone because they don’t make money.
Change in food and drink places Great Britain 2024| Statista
Has the number of food and drink venues changed much recently in Great Britain? Between September 2023 and 2024, the overall number of venues did not change.
Wetherspoon pub numbers UK 2024| Statista
How many J D Wetherspoon pubs are there in the United Kingdom and Ireland? In 2024, there were over 700 in operation.
So Wetherspoons have become more profitable by acting like even bigger bastards. Tim Martin is a horrible man and yes, ideally would pay staff out of their coffers rather than use the furlough scheme. But he won’t, because he’s a massive bellend.
The rest of the industry is suffering massively and there’s a lot of good independent places that provided jobs to plenty that are on the edge. Tarring them in with the likes of Tim Martin’s mob is inane.
I was asked how a lockdown of the whole of the hospitality industy could be countenanced given the possible unemployment it'd cause. I've given a reasonable repsonse to that.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Again, for the hard of learning: I haven't said there will be a 'national lockdown'. I said there are plans afoot to lockdown nationally a sector, in the event that schools are looking at remaining closed in the face of a rising R-number.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
Was out on the ale with my mate last night - even for a wednesday evening was very quiet out.
eerily quiet.
eerily quiet.
orchard
Player Valuation: £60m
Tbf they're not all angelic either, whatever an ethical appraisal is worth. Was it Albert Roux or Marco Pierre White who said that ninety odd percent of those in the hospitality industry were 'c#@+s'? I could name a fair few besides dim Tim.2021 is a forecast, presumably not taking the previous 6 months into consideration, especially with news that it’ll be 18 months for spending to get anywhere near back to current levels. Likewise 2018 is an estimate, suggesting the figures are out of date or not particularly accurate, especially when the exact same author on the same website published a report that revenue was dropping - https://www.statista.com/statistics/558154/beverage-serving-turnover-united-kingdom-uk/
Neither does another report by the same author which shows that the number of pubs in the UK has declined, including the number of Wetherspoons pubs. They’ve gone because they don’t make money.
Change in food and drink places Great Britain 2024| Statista
Has the number of food and drink venues changed much recently in Great Britain? Between September 2023 and 2024, the overall number of venues did not change.
Wetherspoon pub numbers UK 2024| Statista
How many J D Wetherspoon pubs are there in the United Kingdom and Ireland? In 2024, there were over 700 in operation.
So Wetherspoons have become more profitable by acting like even bigger bastards. Tim Martin is a horrible man and yes, ideally would pay staff out of their coffers rather than use the furlough scheme. But he won’t, because he’s a massive bellend.
The rest of the industry is suffering massively and there’s a lot of good independent places that provided jobs to plenty that are on the edge. Tarring them in with the likes of Tim Martin’s mob is inane.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
I just made it up, oh no wait....
Death rate 'back to normal' in UK
It is the first time weekly deaths have been below the five-year average since mid March.
www.bbc.co.uk
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
We were talking about this last night in the pub. Many people will probably not be coming back until this disease is history. Certainly people are taking advantage of half price food offerings, but it was felt that many will not come back even if beer prices were slashed. Money isn’t really the issue....
zzr45
#MURDERINGSCUM
Oh my word yes, it’s an interesting business make no bones about it. Plenty of ego and narcissism. I just really hate that moron.
- Status