Do you honestly think Tim Nice But Dim Spoon will pass on the savings?
You don't think they'll up the price list to compensate? It's been a while since they've been open so who would know? Sorry, I'm perhaps getting a little too cynical in my old age. As you were.The VAT cut isn't for passing on, I thought it was to give the business a boost. The £10/50% offer is for customers.
It is possible that we will have a boom scenario between now and April next year when a disproportionate number of people are buying at higher prices followed by softer prices when the scheme ends and asking prices are adjusted.
Arguably the real winners will be purchasers of higher value properties who have just had £15k knocked off their completion bill, not the people it was intended for.
I found it a little like I would imagine living in a foreign country that happened to share the English language to be in some respects... I guess just aspects of the look, the feel, the smells(pollution!) and vibe and its internationalism being so different from anywhere else in the country. I could see how easy it was to become "London centric" though as this "different country-ness" can make it seem like anything happening outside London is "abroad" somehow and so less relevant/important.
I loved living in That London. Just great from an arts and culture perspective, it is alive and vibrant with little if any of the backward-looking ‘little-Englander’ bullshit that blights so much of this country. It also seemed far more of a meritocracy in that jobs and opportunities are available so if you have a brain you can get on. The housing market was a joke though. Even as a fairly well paid IT specialist the options of getting on the housing market anywhere in Zone 1 or 2, which is where I wanted to be (I lived in Shepherds Bush), was all but impossible. I miss it a lot to be honest.
My rent was £10 a month.
His insistence on supporting Dominic Cummings after his little jaunts up north is a deal-breaker for me. It's a sign that he may not be as benevolent as some people here seem to think.
I lived around E1 and E8 for most of my 22 years in that there London. When I first moved there in 1994 the South Bank was a rather windswept place where one could browse the 2nd hand books in peace and have a drink in the NFT cafe before being one of about 10 people nursing their hangovers whilst watching an old film noir in cinema 3. It's now like a perpetual Notting Hill Carnival 7 days a week.I quite liked living in London, but it just got too noisy/crowded/polluted. I doubt I'll move back there (as if I could afford to!)
On R4 this morning St Rushi again stated the the British economy was particular in being consumer led and ‘especially social consumption’.
Is an economy based on social consumption sustainable? Especially when that consumption is driven by debt.
If social consumerism is not a sound basis on which to build an economy that is sustainable and resilient enough to withstand the next crisis, what needs to change?
Yes I heard that tooOn R4 this morning St Rushi again stated the the British economy was particular in being consumer led and ‘especially social consumption’.
Is an economy based on social consumption sustainable? Especially when that consumption is driven by debt.
If social consumerism is not a sound basis on which to build an economy that is sustainable and resilient enough to withstand the next crisis, what needs to change?
t’pit’s too good for them. Its the birch they’re needing.We need to bring back coal mines, steel mills, and clogs.
We need to bring back coal mines, steel mills, and clogs.