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A Personal View of Sunak’s plans from a Lake District Pub – politicalbetting.com
A Personal View of Sunak’s plans from a Lake District Pub – politicalbetting.com
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Cash grants not given to other affected sectors. These are apparently going to be repeated.
Bounce back loans
Deferral of taxes
A reduction in VAT
EOTHO
I really don't think it can be said that he hasn't tried.
But he may still fail because demand has collapsed due to people being scared, the need to discourage reckless behaviour spreading the virus and boosting the R number and a lot of people simply not having any money because they too are being hit. This is very sad and frustrating for those affected and I have genuine sympathy for them, just as I do for the many advocates who are currently unable to pay their bills.
More likely they’ve taken some extreme measures to combat any second wave.
Measures we can’t take, like welding people in their homes.
I think the necessary inference from his lack of additional support to the hospitality sector is he believes that any such jobs are now unviable. Which means, ultimately, that he expects restrictions to continue well into next year.
His choice is to prioritise the overall productivity of the economy over the hospitality sector.
I don't envy him, there's only bad choices to make.
*Which weren't good.
It is up to enforcement authorities to check these issues
We have been out to a few local restaurants - and the food is lovely. But there is still a ghost at the feast. It doesn't make you want to linger any longer than it takes to eat.
They ought never to have let that impression take hold. But Boris saves Summer/Xmas, here's a tenner off your food, go on holiday, go on and get plastered was too tempting, rather than some realistic levelling about the scale and potential duration of the problem.
July and August was the time to emphasise that hard choices lay ahead.
Instead we got feel good boosterism.
For example, quite a few people are saying "let the centre of London die. It will only harm some EvulRicheFurriners/Tories".
So x thousand pubs close. And x branches of Rymans and..... and.....
Then the vaccine comes through. So a year later.....
The politicians can choose to tell them that their priorities are wrong, but there simply don't seem to be as many principled libertarians or deficit hawks out there as their presence on political media would seem to suggest.
If you saw a murder or a rape or a burglery or an assault being committed or someone speeding would you report that illegal activity so the police could then investigate and take action? If yes then you also should report someone not wearing a facemask when required to the police for breaking the law
For a pub the flat rate scheme has reduced VAT from 6.5% to just 1% so that's an 84.6% reduction in VAT bills liable which should be significant
If your daughter thinks she isn't gaining from this scheme then I'd recommend she seeks professional advice as she absolutely should be gaining as far as I understand it. I wouldn't want her to be paying 6.5x the amount liable.
https://twitter.com/damienrieu/status/1309462060007292929?s=21
I've got a really nice house so why would I want to go somewhere to sit next to a fruit machine while some wanker chats shit about his new golf shoes?
https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1309468921653800960
Funny that
If you refuse to do so there is no more the government can do
Increased costs are imposed on the hospitality industry by the government.
Who should pay these costs?
Should it be the people who use the restaraunts and pubs? Should it be the people who own them? Or should it be the taxpayers in general?
If it is to be the last, as Ms @Cyclefree suggests, then we should not forget that it is all taxpayers who will be subsidising the activities of those who eat out.
Hendron, who was suspended from practice for three years in 2016 after he admitted supplying drugs which killed his boyfriend at a chemsex orgy in Temple, was seeking to join the regulator to oversee the profession.
He submitted his bid at 16:57 on Monday, three minutes before the deadline.
At 16:58, the Bar Council's executive team rejected his application, informing him that printing 'HH' as his signature was insufficient. Hendron volleyed back a hand-signed version which he says would have arrived no later than 17:01.
But he was told his application was still being rejected because he was out of time. "You can't be serious about that?" replied the barrister, who won his appeal against a second suspension in 2019.
However, head of Governance Natalie Zara was indeed serious, and informed Hendron she was "unable to correspond any further on this matter" with him.
The barrister, who has acted for Conservative politicians Nigel Evans and Nadine Dorries, intends to escalate the matter to the courts, and has made an application in the RCJ to validate his nomination and get himself back on the ballot.
Hendron argued in his nomination's supporting statement that "to lead change we need a Bar Council which is diverse in every respect, which includes and embraces all, from the young radicals to the old dinosaurs of the bar, and those in between the two".
He continued, "I am (very!) openly gay, opinionated (but in a reasoned (and I hope nice way!)), tolerant and compassionate and I believe that the Bar needs to stand up and lead the change in the legal sector, and not simply respond to change thrust upon it".
Hendron told RollOnFriday it was ironic that his statement addressed how the Bar Council should be 'leading change', "yet at the heart of its own election process it seemingly fights any change at all by its stubborn refusal to adapt with the times and allow electronic signature".
He said the requirement for a handwritten signature specified in the nomination guidance was "no doubt" added by "some administrative junky [sic]" within the Bar Council.
The Bar Council did not respond to requests for comment.
https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/exclusive-bar-council-crushes-chemsex-barristers-election-bid
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8772037/Meghan-Markle-seriously-consider-running-president-source-claims-Vanity-Fair.html
1/3 of the country would have fought to the death
1/3 of the country wouldn't have noticed
The other 1/3rd would have been lining up round the block to join up and be a BlockFuhrer.....
Pubs that survive do so by evolving. There are markets for gastropubs, sports bars, hipster craft beer emporiums etc etc, but the back street boozers like the Queen Vic or Rovers Return are an anachronism.
Though if he emailed 3 minutes I'd have emailed back after it since you cannot demand instant response and you should get in sooner just in case there's a problem.
The EU != free trade.
As a republican, he'll do so much for the republicanism movement than any republican.
By comparison Jug Ears will say some mildly nice things about multi faith and saving the whales. Which are hardly out of style at the moment.
The EU's political integration is a political choice not an economic necessity.
They likely knew it meant trouble later, but what politicians don't choose trouble later over trouble today?
Once Charles ascends, it may not happen immediately or even be likely, but the self-imposed gag on discussing the subject will be lifted.
The eight-month operation, named Aphrodite, was led by Italian and Irish authorities, with support from the EU's law enforcement co-operation agency Europol.
Authorities tracked online sales of fake items before carrying out checks in a number of countries, leading to the confiscation of nearly 28 million illegal and counterfeit goods.