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Aint for the weather or the traffic, thats for sure.
1966efc
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Just outside Chester, there's a large estate called Blacon which has a couple of Nursing Homes situated there.
On two occasions when my uncle needed round the clock nursing, he stayed in them. We got to know some of the carers who happened to be Kenyan and Zambian nationals. They had been recruited by reps out in their countries as care workers & at a rate which is below the minimum wage. They were housed in three ex council houses which had had conversion to four residents each & paid rent to the Nursing Home company.
Slavery? No. The situation did, however, take out three social housing units; helped maintain a poor wage level &, according to one manager, "We never bother advertising here. Brits wouldn't be interested".
Nothing at all to do with penny pinching, of course.
How is this connected with the E U? Well, I have no idea if the same sort of thing happens with eastern Europeans but I do know that local residents see what is happening and are quietly seething about it. I doubt that too many make the distinction between E U and other immigrants. And where resources are scarce, it's poor psychology to appear to allocate them to "outsiders".
On two occasions when my uncle needed round the clock nursing, he stayed in them. We got to know some of the carers who happened to be Kenyan and Zambian nationals. They had been recruited by reps out in their countries as care workers & at a rate which is below the minimum wage. They were housed in three ex council houses which had had conversion to four residents each & paid rent to the Nursing Home company.
Slavery? No. The situation did, however, take out three social housing units; helped maintain a poor wage level &, according to one manager, "We never bother advertising here. Brits wouldn't be interested".
Nothing at all to do with penny pinching, of course.
How is this connected with the E U? Well, I have no idea if the same sort of thing happens with eastern Europeans but I do know that local residents see what is happening and are quietly seething about it. I doubt that too many make the distinction between E U and other immigrants. And where resources are scarce, it's poor psychology to appear to allocate them to "outsiders".
Could this be the first casualty of uncertain financial events since the vote to leave?
"We deeply regret to announce that the lowcosttravelgroup (“LCTG”) ceased to trade on 15 July 2016, following exhaustive attempts by the group’s directors to rescue the group, which has been hampered by the recent and ongoing turbulent financial environment".
"We deeply regret to announce that the lowcosttravelgroup (“LCTG”) ceased to trade on 15 July 2016, following exhaustive attempts by the group’s directors to rescue the group, which has been hampered by the recent and ongoing turbulent financial environment".
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
Bruce - Bollocks.
I replied to that post at 2-30 am this morning in a more constructive way, but your right it is the Bulls testicles that post!lol
Another Google classic on the EU!
As a point any really rich countries asking to join it?
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
The only countries wanting to join now are those holding their hands out.
bobbydigital
Player Valuation: £1.5m
What really rich countries are left to join?
No mugs around to join the countries in the Eastern block are not Europe, but they have joined or about to join, Turkey down the pipeline maybe!
Put it this way if we were already outside the EU would we be Quinn up to join it in its present state?
A sewer would be a resounding NO!
Turkey won't be joining for a while. Interesting evening out there right now...
bobbydigital
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I doubt you could put it all down to Brexit. I don't know a great deal about the company but I would imagine they were probably struggling and the devalued pound caused by Brexit has just finished them off. The devalued pound will hit smaller and medium sized business particularly exposed to currency fluctuations in certain industries (travel companies are a good example as has been shown). With bigger companies exposed to these fluctuations, you would assume them to be on the ball and have plenty of FX hedging in place before Brexit happened.
It's definitely unfortunate the people at LCTG have lost their jobs (and the people who will lose their holidays) but the big job losses will come if we can't get access to the single market, that's what the bigger companies are waiting to see as this will massively hit their bottom line (a good example is the Jaguar Land Rover article from the other day). These companies are prepared to wait and find out and have plans in place to withstand the current problems but there will of course be a significant drop off in investment in the UK while they wait to find out. If the situation arises where we are unable to retain access to the single market, I think it would be catastrophic for the economy and this is when the big casualties would come.
Shock horror a travel firm goes bust, normal outside Brexit?
It's dark here!
I believe the news is out now
Yes, and it will be daylight in the morning, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit
bobbydigital
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It is normal that the value of the pound has a massive effect on travel companies. The devalued pound has been caused by Brexit but on the other hand there will also be companies that do well out of a devalued pound.
The real problem is if we aren't able to retain access to the single market as I said above. There is also of course the problems caused by delayed investment from the uncertainty seen as we wait to find out what our relationship with the EU will be.
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