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Gunsup

Yes you are right also about rates, staff and wages. Online shopping has an audience of the whole country while local shops have a much smaller area looking for customers, no competition really.

I can’t remember when I last went into my local town to shop, many years ago. The only time I go is to get new glasses.

I remember as a kid we went food shopping to our local town for our food shop. Then from the 80’s we saw a major shift to out of town supermarkets. We have one only half a mile away. The town we used to go to five decades ago has only a small convenience size one now.

Towns decline of shops started back then forty plus years ago.

STP

“ Well you are going to have to pay for all the illegal immigrants coming into the UK, somehow.

I think it was 750,000 illegals last year or something like that.

Oops, I thought Brexit was going to fix that....”

Well it would help if Labour supported the Government along with all the civil servants who are actively stopping it. It becomes clear that Labour are not listening to the wishes of the people and are in fact looking to work with the EU when the time comes to actually bring more in. How can you trust any Government if they go against most peoples wishes.

Be careful what you wish for.

STP

Most sensible people will know that we have had ghost towns well before Brexit. Those same sensible people will also know that the primary cause of our ghost towns is on line shopping and delivery to home.

You only have to know that loads of shopping malls in the US have closed and they were not part of Brexit.

The future will no longer focus around town centres as we know them, I suspect that some towns will actually shrink in size and become de-cluttered of shops and offices and become valuable sites for homes.

Hardup

“Seany.....the link you posted is a paywall. I have found the same report elsewhere which is not a paywall. I don't think there is anything in the report that rules out Labour bringing in a windfall tax on Banks when Labour come to power?

https://www.businesstelegraph.co.uk/labour-says-no-longer-sneering-at-business-and-unveils-10-city-advisers/ “

Reeves said the party had no plans to raise more taxes from the financial services sector beyond a move to end a private equity tax loophole, but added she could not conclusively rule out such a move in future if “something dramatic happens”.

“I would just say never say never, but . . . that’s never been an area we have discussed,” she said.

Uncle Doug

“Many nursing and medical students leave university after their 5 to 8 year's degrees, then do a few months placement training and then fly off to Aus or NZ , etc for better pay and lower hours. We therefore have spent all that money subsidising their education and training and they clear off to benefit other countries.”

That doesn’t surprise me now. Perhaps terms of the degree course should include a clause that you have to work ‘X’ many years in the NHS and then be allowed to leave and work elsewhere, be it here or abroad. If they wish to leave earlier than the agreed term of working they have to repay a proportion of the degree/training costs. It isn’t difficult to overcome this problem.

Pickedpexk

“Go to an NHS hospital anywhere in the UK and do a head count of staff born here vs staff that have been born elsewhere and have come here since.”

I believe quite simply it is because it is cost effective to employ people that are already trained and have the skill sets and these are nearly always going to be people not from our shores.Our governments (Tory and Labour) don’t seem to want to spend money on training our own indigenous people, I suspect they see it as dead money wasted on a three? year course and non productive.

I also seem to remember that to be a nurse these days you need a degree as in the old days I believe people who had a vocation to be a nurse etc could train and sit exams and then become qualified.

If I have any of this massively wrong I am happy to be corrected.

Brixton

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RE: NexitToday 06:26

Lol we ain't got proper Brexit yet. Net migration into the UK last year tripled to 3/4 of a million. Just the ones we know of. Can't all be Doctors ? What. Out of work Benefits must be humongous.”

On that figure it means on an average day 2,000 are crossing the channel in boats or other means.

To me that isn’t sneaking in by rubber boats or hiding in lorries, it has to be more organised than that and I wouldn’t be surprised if it is some form of agreement between the UK and the EU on quotas.

Even if a quarter come over in small boats say 12 at a time that still equates to about 35 rubber dinghy’s a day minimum and they say the French can’t locate and stop them.

As most of us know there is more to this than meets the eye.

It looks like Hunt is considering using October inflation figures of 4.6% instead of Septembers figures.

A complete betrayal to all people on benefits.

SS111

“ Leaving the ECHR will be a start to stop the illegal boat people who are all let's face it economic migrants……..”

Perhaps I have it wrong but my perception of an economic migrant is someone that travels to another country seeking work. Based on that premise I would expect them to have sufficient funds so that they find themselves accommodation and able to support themselves and not be expecting the new host country to do this for them.

So why are we not refusing them assistance to live here and let them find the means to live here and if they find it doesn’t work they can leave and try somewhere else.

Brix

“ Braver-big -balls women finally delivers ......bit late but sunak now tucked.”

Well sometimes the truth can hurt when it is deserved. There goes any ethnic vote they were hoping for then.

Chid

“ Wait until Labour get in and tax isa's, the stock market for the smaller masses won't be worth investing in”

Well if that happens then it will be the beginning of the end of ISA’s. There will be little reason or advantage to their existence. Probably start with taxation on dividends and then move to taxation on sale of shares on the profits. What a depressing thought.

Forget that last post of mine, I was thinking carbon emissions, should have read the original post more clearly, apologies.

MB

“ If you look at scale alone, China (728 TWh), the EU-27 (540 TWh) and the United States (469 TWh) stand out as the largest producers of wind and solar power. Together they are responsible for more than two-thirds of global generation.”

…..and I believe China is a third on its own. The UK as I remember is 1% like a lot of the EU while Germany sticks out at 2%.

LTI

“ Mine is capped at 5% ”

As is mine. What was the driver for this cap? Government or……? I suspect it is cast in stone and can never be reviewed.

LTI

“ I believe that a calculation would have been made using old state pension (30 years contributions to get max) plus any SERPS payments, and compare with maximum payment (if 35 years contributions made) under the new pension, and whatever works out to be the highest amount , that is what will be paid”

So a person makes SERP’s payments and a pension value is based on old pension rate plus SERP’s on 30 years and it could be less than new pension value. If the same person works 35 years they will get the new pension rate regardless. The point here is that this person didn’t need to make any SERP payments in the past if they had known about the new pension, but hey, who has a crystal ball. In reality those people that paid SERP’s and the old total didn’t total more than the new scheme have paid money into a government black hole. Over years they could have saved thousands.

Hardup

“The UK Financial Markets did not take a big hit when Labour won the 1997 GE.”

But they took a big hit at the time of the GFC with Brown at the helm.

HU

“ Are you sure about that? What about the Dot.com crash, Iraq War and GFC.”

How many people died in the above? Nearly 400 soldiers unnecessarily in Iraq. America goes fishing and catch Blair hook line and sinker to support them.

How many businesses collapsed totally along with job cuts in above compared to Covid.

Hardup

I did say relatively easy, not totally free of issues. The pandemic was the single largest problem and not just for the UK. What else compares to that I can’t put a finger on one but feel free to highlight something I have missed.

LTI

“… the market puts a valuation on a business”

And hopefully most people understand that statement. Although the markets determine what THEY feel it is worth doesn’t always equate to what its value really is. The only way you can determine that is by crawling over the books in detail to see what is reality.

MD

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**So you are saying that Labour was justified in wrecking peoples pensions, I think a lot of people will disagree with you on that one**

I didn't say that.”

It came over that way when you started your reply with ‘While the ……..’ as if you agreed and then generalised the faults of the Tories.

Of course the big question that nobody has an answer for is how any o5her government would have handled it. Ei5er way the pandemic and the Ukraine war as going to cost, just a matter of how much. Labour had it relatively easy when they were in, no major world issues as we have seen in the last three years.