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Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by ipsento606 »

ehnto wrote: post #163
sefrost wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But if the landlord owns the pub (rare in the UK I know), but I believe it’s the case in this instance, then what are they getting from unrealised property price gains?

What does anyone gain from it really, except money in the bank for a handful of individuals, outsized property prices seem to be a hurdle for functional societies in basically every way. It doesn't benefit a town if rent is so expensive that their businesses shut down.

As property prices increase, developers are more incentivized to build new properties and increase density.

The increase in supply then lowers prices.

The problem comes when local laws and the planning permission system make it hard or impossible to increase the supply of homes. Then there's no balancing force to bring prices down when they go up.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by conorcleary »

gambiting wrote: post #272
neves wrote: post #266

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Mail from a guy that wants to preserve pubs wouldn't be junk.

How is that different from a mail from a local church asking me to donate, or a local bingo club opening a new location - it's all junk. If I didn't ask for it to be sent to my address, it's all junk.

Pubs generate way more tax revenue than churches.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by carlosjobim »

flir wrote: post #23
rconti wrote: post #5

Interest in context on "government pub rates". New tax scheme?

Pubs are dying. Have been for years. Many deaths were postponed because their taxes were reduced due to Covid. Those taxes are now returning to normal levels. This will result in a glut of deaths, as pubs that were just hanging on go under. The policy question is, basically, do we want to subsidize pubs because they're part of our national culture, even though we don't use them nearly as much as we used to?

> ...do we want to subsidize pubs...

Reducing taxes are not subsidizes. Subsidizes are when the government gives tax money to a business, not when they take a little less from a business.

People might think it's the same equation, but the difference in reality is enormous for the economy.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by cbeach »

fakedang wrote: post #258
vixen99 wrote: post #250

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I'd be interested to know your view on how you think Britain should be governed and the extent to which you think others would agree. Serious question: can you offer a link to some such description?

Curtail immigration to pre-Brexit levels (with a strong focus on repatriating criminals and net tax non-contributing immigrant households), focus on the working class and devise a route for the UK to get back into the EU. Also refocus policing to focus on actual societal issues - child grooming and the rise of fundamentalist elements (as evidenced by the UAE banning their citizens from studying in the UK) - as oppose…

Disagree on being subsumed into the stagnating EU (far better to align with dynamic English-speaking economies with strong growth, like the US).

The EU customs union prevented the UK striking bilateral global free trade deals, and the legacy of EU over-regulation continues to curtail our innovation. The UK has a solid history of global trade and innovation, and it can acheive more if unshackled from the EU.

Austerity is absolutely necessary. If we keep giving the NHS above-inflation pay rises inline with what their staff demand, it would consume the entire annual excess wealth from the productive half of the economy in a matter of decades.

What we need are sensible and pragmatic policies like Reform's scaling back of net zero, for example. The cost of Ed Miliband's net zero measures are an estimated £4.5 trillion over the next 25 years, and a gross cost in excess of £7.6 trillion.

https://iea.org.uk/media/net-zero-could-cost-britain-billion...

That's more than our entire GDP. Just one example is the 20 year wind farm contracts that Miliband has set up, with a guaranteed energy cost that's nearly double the market rate for gas power (and then on top of that we need to pay for wind curtailment, grid upgrades and expensive backup power plants to cover low wind days).

https://x.com/ClaireCoutinho/status/2011335138987168173

We were promised that renewables would reduce energy bills. That was a total fiction, and the politicians are to blame.

Green energy could be a massive success story, and it could make our bills cheaper, but inept politicians from the Tories and Labour have focussed instead on vanity metrics.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by Macha »

lblume wrote: post #289
theBobBob wrote: post #287

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In Ireland we were very late to the postcode game and when we introduced them a few years back they actually uniquely identifies a single address. We also continued our "interesting" habit of renaming everything to make them sound more Irish so they are called Eircodes. In theory you could just put the single 7 character Eircode on a letter and it would be enough although our postal service has said we can't do that.

Why not?

By being late to computerized sorting, the postal service (An Post) never actually needed postcodes the way others did, as by the time they got computerized, fuzzy address lookups in the full address database was something that was available. It's mostly the third party couriers and marketing people pushed for post codes so they could apply techniques from other countries here.

Now asking An Post to overhaul their system to work on postcodes only is a bit like asking a postal service which requires postcodes to make them optional. It's technically possible, sure, but they're not going to want to spend the money.

_That said_, An Post's last resort routing department is pretty famous for getting the right address from pretty fragmentary information like "Mary down by the church, formerly of Kilnowhere", so I'm sure if a letter with just a eircode arrived there they'd sort it, but I imagine that An Post don't want to encourage people doing things that increases load on the labour intensive sorting.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by hayd »

anfractuosity wrote: post #33

Great idea! https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/personal-finance/finance-expe... shows how little pubs make per pint, very sad. If anyone's curious about cask beer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ud_eTwY4nc&list=PLyDTS7ZG3z... is a very interesting youtube video series by The Craft Beer Channel.

> This is great for HMRC because it collects 10 times more than what the publican does

WTF.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by jorvi »

dismantlethesun wrote: post #204
jorvi wrote: post #183

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You conveniently leave out that you were making minimum(?) youth wage. In 2026, at 18y minimum wage is €7.36 per hour and at 21y it rockets up to €14.71 Not that youth wage past 18y isn't a stupid concept, but your wage being guaranteed to at least double in ~36 months time is rather relevant.

The were making 8.5 per hour which above the 2026 youth wage. They also are relating a story from their past and since they have had an account since 2015, I am assuming their youthful past was at least 1 decade ago if not nearly 20 years ago.

Minimum jeugdloon exists since 1974. Of course the numbers change but the ratio doesn't.

Look at it like this: if 18y minimum wage was €3 back then and would double to €6 at 21y, and you're a construction worker working for €8.50 at 18y, you're sure as shit going to demand a raise at 19, 20 and 21 because all the people making minimum wage are getting those raises too. Maybe not a doubling, but you wouldn't (shouldn't) gnash your teeth and still make €8.50 three years later.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by decimalenough »

sjw987 wrote: post #248
marcus_holmes wrote: post #191

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A friend of mine who lived in a tent in a park got his own postcode. True story. Details: election time. He went to the election folks and asked for his election papers. They said "sure, where do you live?" he said "the Bender, Eastville Park, Bristol", they said "that's not a valid address", he said "that's where I live, so that's where I'd like my registration to be, please". There was some back and forth. They cav…

That's a nice way to give the postie a pleasant walk on a lovely summer day.

This is Britain we're talking about, it'll be pissing down rain/sleet on the other 364 days.
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