| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. 13:32 - Nov 20 with 33413 views | OldFart71 |
Inflation up and rising. Costs to businesses up. Energy prices going up again in January. Not long ago I paid £68 per month for gas and electricity. In the winter I was able to have my heating on 1-1.1/2 hours in the morning, then again 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. I now pay £85 per month (Just increased by my supplier) and I have it on for two hours at night. Absolutely bonkers. Whilst I admit and I was just as p*ssed off as most people with the Tories, Labour have steam rollered in like a bull in a china shop and now costs are and will keep increasing by more than they needed to. Companies will cut costs by cutting hours or even laying people off. Will put prices up whilst giving lower wage increases. This in turn will lead to workers striking for higher pay. There's a saying "You can't burn the candle at both ends" Labour are trying to put all the ills made by the previous Government in one go. It is too much all at once and is already leading to many sections of our community taking to the streets or totally feed up with a Party that has only been in power a few months. |  | | |  |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 10:40 - Nov 26 with 1647 views | leitrimblue |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 10:35 - Nov 26 by WeWereZombies |
'Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, cash is reality'
And I will leave it to you to trawl the internet to find out who first said that. |
Mark Knopfler?
I believe the next line is money for nothing and chips for free? |  | | |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 10:51 - Nov 26 with 1606 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 10:40 - Nov 26 by leitrimblue |
Mark Knopfler?
I believe the next line is money for nothing and chips for free? |
"It's not the turnover, it's the leftover" My dad 1984. |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 10:55 - Nov 26 with 1581 views | leitrimblue |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 10:51 - Nov 26 by GlasgowBlue |
"It's not the turnover, it's the leftover" My dad 1984. |
Wise man
He's not a Knopfler brother by any chance is he?  | | | |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 10:57 - Nov 26 with 1580 views | WeWereZombies |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 10:40 - Nov 26 by leitrimblue |
Mark Knopfler?
I believe the next line is money for nothing and chips for free? |
No idea myself, I first heard it from the dubious lips of Duncan Ballantyne on 'Dragon's Den' (I only watched it occasionally for the car crash potential, honest) and he went and left off the last three words, the chump. |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 11:12 - Nov 26 with 1548 views | leitrimblue |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 10:57 - Nov 26 by WeWereZombies |
No idea myself, I first heard it from the dubious lips of Duncan Ballantyne on 'Dragon's Den' (I only watched it occasionally for the car crash potential, honest) and he went and left off the last three words, the chump. |
I had a Scottish friend who had 1 of those car crash moments on Dragons Den. Not sure if it was the Irish or English 1 he was on. Was some kinda bike with through the frame suspension or something similar ( he's some kinda engineer)
It's well worth looking for..  . | | | |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 11:14 - Nov 26 with 1542 views | Benters |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 08:24 - Nov 26 by The_Flashing_Smile |
But the CEO doesn't have the sales quotas, the sales managers do. |
You know them all do you? |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 11:16 - Nov 26 with 1535 views | Benters |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 08:28 - Nov 26 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I'd put money on the business owners you've met will be plumbers, market stall holders, builders and maybe the owner of the local hardware store. I reckon you've met very few CEOs at the top of businesses as big as B&Q. |
Market stall holders lol 😂 | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 11:23 - Nov 26 with 1500 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 11:14 - Nov 26 by Benters |
You know them all do you? |
I wouldn't say I know them well but we just had a very productive meeting and some lovely biscuits. |  |
| Trust the process. Trust Phil. |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 11:45 - Nov 26 with 1457 views | Benters |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 11:23 - Nov 26 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I wouldn't say I know them well but we just had a very productive meeting and some lovely biscuits. |
Show off 🤓😂 | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:28 - Nov 26 with 1376 views | OldFart71 |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 09:49 - Nov 26 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
Personally I think more firms should give (or at least discount) equity for their staff. That way everyone is invested, and everyone is rewarded for the company’s success. |
I worked for I.C.I. from 1977 until 2002, they had what they called a Share Option Scheme which allowed a worker to tale out an option for 3,5 or 7 years. You saved so much per month in a Building Society. The share price was set at the beginning of you taking out the option. Once the time had elapsed you then had the choice of taking your money plus interest or taking the option of the shares which obviously you would do if the share price had increased. | | | |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:34 - Nov 26 with 1356 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:28 - Nov 26 by OldFart71 |
I worked for I.C.I. from 1977 until 2002, they had what they called a Share Option Scheme which allowed a worker to tale out an option for 3,5 or 7 years. You saved so much per month in a Building Society. The share price was set at the beginning of you taking out the option. Once the time had elapsed you then had the choice of taking your money plus interest or taking the option of the shares which obviously you would do if the share price had increased. |
Was that in Stowmarket?
I think my dad worked there around 1977.
I remember at the Christmas parties the presents us kids got from ICI were better than those from our parents! |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:51 - Nov 26 with 1330 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 10:55 - Nov 26 by leitrimblue |
Wise man
He's not a Knopfler brother by any chance is he? |
Well he ended up in Dire Straits. | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 14:51 - Nov 26 with 1232 views | WeWereZombies |
Or maybe he did a Starmer and had a look at the mess his predecessors left and realised that it was best to come clean, let the markets know the depth of the problem and clear the decks for a fresh start ? | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:33 - Nov 26 with 1198 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
Whoopsie!
Maybe I had too many biscuits. | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 16:22 - Nov 26 with 1145 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:33 - Nov 26 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Whoopsie!
Maybe I had too many biscuits. |
Being a CEO is more than locking yourself in the stationery cupboard with your secretary! |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 19:42 - Nov 26 with 1053 views | Ryorry |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:31 - Nov 21 by WeWereZombies |
It could be two pairs of trousers, because it has four legs, but they would have to be hollow and open topped so that you could put your own legs into them. In which case it might stop working as a snooker table because there would be four additional apertures for the balls to go down and those apertures would be difficult to retrieve balls from. Also, if two people were using the snooker table as trousers they would have to be ready to agree which direction to walk in. |
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This thread is the funniest thing I’ve seen since I stopped reading The Beano & Dandy when I was about 10 - someone should roll it up and send it to the Beeb or ITV for turning into a 6-part comedy - it’d be right up there with Fawlty Towers 😂
And I’m still only on page 5, yay! |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 19:51 - Nov 26 with 1045 views | WeWereZombies |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:33 - Nov 26 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Whoopsie!
Maybe I had too many biscuits. |
Get away with you, we all know this profits warning is just your way of avoiding paying to sponsor Town when Ed's deal is up. | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 20:23 - Nov 26 with 1006 views | Ryorry |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:38 - Nov 23 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Haha, classic TWTD argument... like Ryorry's "go live on a farm for a month" a few days ago.
A practical experiment is it? You think it's practical that I can pop into B&Q's head office and run the company?
People have different skills, that's certainly true. Maybe I'd be great at running B&Q for the day - in fact I imagine it probably runs itself pretty well, due to those thousands of lower paid workers. I reckon I could be the head of B&Q for a month and it wouldn't suffer. But as you know, I won't be allowed to do that, so well done, you win the argument!
I think you and Lucan are intentionally missing the point (because you're business owners and the rest of us have touched on a nerve). When there's such a disparity that a boss gets a £10m bonus and a shop worker needs benefits to get by - that, for me, is fundamentally wrong. And yes, your analogy with sports stars is utterly irrelevant to that, and silly. |
It would be perfectly possible for you to go and stay on a farm for a month; either as a holiday (many farmers have diversified to incorporate running B&Bs), or working. When I ran my organic smallholding for 15 years back in the day, I often had people staying for a few weeks or just a weekend (belonged to an organisation called ‘Working Weekends on Organic Farms). | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 20:27 - Nov 26 with 1001 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 20:23 - Nov 26 by Ryorry |
It would be perfectly possible for you to go and stay on a farm for a month; either as a holiday (many farmers have diversified to incorporate running B&Bs), or working. When I ran my organic smallholding for 15 years back in the day, I often had people staying for a few weeks or just a weekend (belonged to an organisation called ‘Working Weekends on Organic Farms). |
You think I can afford a month-long holiday (and Lady Dollers can take a month off work, unless you expect me to go alone?)
No, sorry, it's not practical for most people - albeit a bit more doable than me being allowed to run B&Q for a month.
And it's certainly more effort than I'd spend to win an argument on the internet! | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 20:42 - Nov 26 with 983 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 20:23 - Nov 26 by Ryorry |
It would be perfectly possible for you to go and stay on a farm for a month; either as a holiday (many farmers have diversified to incorporate running B&Bs), or working. When I ran my organic smallholding for 15 years back in the day, I often had people staying for a few weeks or just a weekend (belonged to an organisation called ‘Working Weekends on Organic Farms). |
I would like to invite you and anyone interested to join me at my Green gym....just bring a rake or two and £50 for a full day of activities. |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. (n/t) on 21:01 - Nov 26 with 959 views | Ryorry |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 20:42 - Nov 26 by BanksterDebtSlave |
I would like to invite you and anyone interested to join me at my Green gym....just bring a rake or two and £50 for a full day of activities. |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 21:06 - Nov 26 with 952 views | Ryorry |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 20:27 - Nov 26 by The_Flashing_Smile |
You think I can afford a month-long holiday (and Lady Dollers can take a month off work, unless you expect me to go alone?)
No, sorry, it's not practical for most people - albeit a bit more doable than me being allowed to run B&Q for a month.
And it's certainly more effort than I'd spend to win an argument on the internet! |
Even a week would probably be an eye-opener, most people could manage that. | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 22:38 - Nov 26 with 915 views | BlibbiBlob1976 |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 06:47 - Nov 24 by Benters |
Erm builders ? |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 05:14 - Nov 27 with 834 views | Benters |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:34 - Nov 26 by Lord_Lucan |
Was that in Stowmarket?
I think my dad worked there around 1977.
I remember at the Christmas parties the presents us kids got from ICI were better than those from our parents! |
I worked on a building site next to that,by fk it was grim in the wind and winter.
I used to work with a old Londoner who moved to Tiptree in the 70’s ,he reckoned working in Stowmarket was like being in a third world country.😂 | |
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