Same as clubs, if you don't earn every day you are waste. Club culture is dead.
Current Affairs Cost of living…
- Thread starter peteblue
- Start date
- Status
Typhoo Tea rescued by vape maker Supreme
The new owner said Typhoo's production will be moved abroad.
www.bbc.co.uk
more brexit benefit.
This is a really good analysis of the bogus-warnings about what happens when you raise the minimum wage to $20/hour in California. It was a $4 raise and all sorts of economists/media editorials/commentators (mostly on the right) and wealthy franchisees said it would mean 1) jobs would have to be cut, 2) prices would go way up, 3) hours would be cut. [ @LinekersLegs since you live in CA I believe]
Turns out none of those things happened. The Wall Street Journal ran an article saying that tons of jobs were lost due to this, but they were wrong (either deliberately so, or just out of incompetence), as seasonal job-loss in the food industry is common around the holidays and had nothing to do with the minimum raise. The second blog covers this in a thoughtful post on general economic disinformation from right-wing thinktanks.
More simply, what happens when you pay people a living wage is...not much. But greedy nefarious assholes are somehow against this.
popular.info
ritholtz.com
Turns out none of those things happened. The Wall Street Journal ran an article saying that tons of jobs were lost due to this, but they were wrong (either deliberately so, or just out of incompetence), as seasonal job-loss in the food industry is common around the holidays and had nothing to do with the minimum raise. The second blog covers this in a thoughtful post on general economic disinformation from right-wing thinktanks.
More simply, what happens when you pay people a living wage is...not much. But greedy nefarious assholes are somehow against this.
What really happened after California raised its minimum wage to $20 for fast food workers
What would happen to the fast food industry if it had to pay its workers something closer to a living wage?
popular.info
Seattle Redux: Misunderstanding Seasonal Adjustments - The Big Picture
@TBPInvictus here. About a decade ago, the city of Seattle undertook to raise its minimum wage, over time, to $15/hour. Massive credit goes to my friend Nick Hanauer for his efforts that made that happen. What followed in the immediate aftermath of both the announcement and implementation was...
ritholtz.com
The 11 beers set to be axed from UK pubs by Carlsberg Marston before end of 2024
Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company has announced it is axing 11 beers from pubs across the UK - see which ones.
- Banks's Mild
- Banks's Sunbeam
- Bombardier
- Eagle IPA
- Jennings Cumberland Ale
- Mansfield Dark Smooth
- Mansfield Original Bitter
- Marston's Old Empire
- Marston's 61 Deep
- Ringwood Boondoggle
- Ringwood Old Thumper
NO one drinks that stuff any more. Not unless its the only bottle you have found in the back of the cupboard..The 11 beers set to be axed from UK pubs by Carlsberg Marston before end of 2024
Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company has announced it is axing 11 beers from pubs across the UK - see which ones.www.thenational.scot
Sign of the times? Or the big global brewers uninterested in british heritage brewing and lines that simply don't sell?
- Banks's Mild
- Banks's Sunbeam
- Bombardier
- Eagle IPA
- Jennings Cumberland Ale
- Mansfield Dark Smooth
- Mansfield Original Bitter
- Marston's Old Empire
- Marston's 61 Deep
- Ringwood Boondoggle
- Ringwood Old Thumper
If they wanna raise money then a quick change to council tax would sort that. Any property sold, the new council tax is 1% of the property value.. I think thats fair. If you can afford to buy a £5 million house then you can afford £50k a year in council tax..With the winter coming and bills rising and shopping to be done. Finding ways to save in other areas can be important for some.
Been watching Martin Lewis and council tax reduction or changing tax bands looks like it can help a load of individuals or families. Could be owed thousands.
Martin Lewis: How to check & challenge your Council Tax band
Your house could be in the wrong council tax band. See how to check, challenge your banding and possibly get a rebate of £1,000s with Money Saving Expert.www.moneysavingexpert.com
The 11 beers set to be axed from UK pubs by Carlsberg Marston before end of 2024
Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company has announced it is axing 11 beers from pubs across the UK - see which ones.
Sign of the times? Or the big global brewers uninterested in british heritage brewing and lines that simply don't sell?
- Banks's Mild
- Banks's Sunbeam
- Bombardier
- Eagle IPA
- Jennings Cumberland Ale
- Mansfield Dark Smooth
- Mansfield Original Bitter
- Marston's Old Empire
- Marston's 61 Deep
- Ringwood Boondoggle
- Ringwood Old Thumper
Nah, they sell, it’s just easier and much cheaper to pump out nasty fizzy lager for the masses.
Jennings Cumberland Ale went years ago and the likes of Marstons stopped selling decent ale from the moment they got swallowed up by a multi national.
It’s a a cartel.
Scottish Budget: Finance Secretary Shona Robison pledges to end two-child benefit cap
Finance Secretary Shona Robison makes the commitment as she outlines her Budget plans for the coming year.
www.bbc.co.uk
up yours tories!
I thought this was a list of the locals who drink in Pete’s pubThe 11 beers set to be axed from UK pubs by Carlsberg Marston before end of 2024
Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company has announced it is axing 11 beers from pubs across the UK - see which ones.
Sign of the times? Or the big global brewers uninterested in british heritage brewing and lines that simply don't sell?
- Banks's Mild
- Banks's Sunbeam
- Bombardier
- Eagle IPA
- Jennings Cumberland Ale
- Mansfield Dark Smooth
- Mansfield Original Bitter
- Marston's Old Empire
- Marston's 61 Deep
- Ringwood Boondoggle
- Ringwood Old Thumper
The trouble with that is that millions of people bought houses for what was a fair price at the time but is now laughably cheap. What would a house costing, say, £50,000 in the 1980s be worth today?
The new council tax rates would only come in to effect for a property when it is sold from now. People in expensive houses they bought years a go would stay on old system..
Pretty sure they trialled it a good few years back in a part of Wales and it was politically a spectacular failure, due to the amount of people that ended up with eye watering price hikes, due to their houses being rebanded into much higher bands.
Oh yeah, no doubt. My idea would be a complete disaster probably!!
But, something needs to change.
My house is Band C in Southport which is now £2,104.37. Average house price £237,454
London, Kensington and Chelsea, Band D is £1,037.58, average house price £1,183,000
Its just wrong...
I`m pretty much the same mate, in Band C, but our house is pretty much worth double what the council tax band says it should be in.
( It was correct when we moved in twenty odd years ago, but as you know the house prices in certain areas have gone nuts in that time )
- Status