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The ones I’m thinking of dealt mainly in furniture. Maybe people can’t afford to replace furniture these days.
Same principle I’d have thought Moe, easy enough to flog old furniture and get £50 in your back pocket.
One of the charity furniture shops near me sometimes has new (i.e. not second hand) end of line stock from retailers. Whether that’s another avenue that’s drying up I wouldn’t know.
“ … easy enough to flog old furniture and get £50 in your back pocket.”
Not when people’s wages have been so suppressed that they don’t have fifty quid to spend.
Plenty of people are doing just fine. Despite all the doom and gloom, loads of hospitality businesses around here are frequently busy, the high street always has lots of people about (not just at weekends, on the rare occasions I go there on weekdays it’s hardly a ghost town). Yes, I live in a reasonably affluent part of the country but I don’t doubt that this is repeated elsewhere.
Go to any airport, ferry port or motorway services. They’re all packed a lot of the time. Big concerts, festivals and sporting events all sell out frequently. No shortage of expensive cars on the roads. Mostly leases, PCPs etc but they don’t come cheap.
Of course plenty have it tough but it does feel overblown by the media at times.
Dispatch from Kabul, about life under the Taliban published 15 Aug by David Patrikarakos.
talking to a spokesman from the Ministry of Health
‘acute food insecurity’
When I put this to Dr Amar, he insists that the number of sites treating malnutrition has increased from roughly 800 under the American-sustained Republic to 3,000 under the Taliban, with around 1,000 additional staff.
As I listen to him seamlessly dodging questions, taking refuge in statistics and blaming the previous government for today’s failings, I watch him and it hits me: subtract the AK47-toting armed guard, the bare feet and the fact we’re sitting on the carpet, and I could be talking to Was Streeting.
*laughing*
Seems politics and politicians aren’t that different the world over?
good luck to allYou could also be listening to any Reform/Tory mp kid ….
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
(extract from a article on illegal migration)
Last December, a report from the government’s official advisors on immigration policy, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), said people entering the UK through asylum and refugee routes make an ‘unambiguously negative’ contribution to public funds.
The committee cited research in the Netherlands which put the ‘lifetime net fiscal impact’ of each asylum seeker at minus £390,000, and a similar study in Australia which estimated a figure of minus £198,000.
MAC chairman Prof Brian Bell said at the time: ‘I would be very surprised if Australia and the Netherlands were not good comparators for us in terms of general labour markets [and] in terms of the types of people who are coming on asylum.
‘I don’t want to put a figure on it, but I think those sort of headline numbers that come from those countries, it wouldn’t surprise me if a similar order of magnitude was true in the UK’
The MAC report said: ‘We expect the lifetime net fiscal impact of those entering through asylum and refugee routes to be unambiguously negative’
good luck to all“The committee cited research in the Netherlands”
So no evidence from the UK, then. Try harder, kid: you might post something relevant one day.
Some excellent news:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvly73jrrdo
Now, let’s see how long it takes for the nimby faction to start throwing its toys out of the pram.
Kid … Post something relevant …. As Ralph would say ..
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
The BBC ends its article with the Tory/Reform fantasy position on social housing. Not a peep about the Lib Dems, Greens or nationalist parties. More left wing bias as usual.
I see The Great Leader has ruled out* a General Election this year.
As I said on the previous page, on balance it was unlikely. My highly speculative punt was only due to the price.
He owes his position to a lot of compliant backbenchers. Given that a snap election would probably cost at least 70 of them their seats, I doubt they would have thanked him.
* He also stated on 15 separate occasions that he would serve a full term as Mayor of Manchester, so his word is not worth much.
Try reading and taking in what the MAC says instead of applying ideology.
I shall repeat for your benefit two parts,
‘I would be very surprised if Australia and the Netherlands were not good comparators for us’
‘We expect the lifetime net fiscal impact of those entering through asylum and refugee routes to be unambiguously negative’
ie they believe the same impact is happening in the uk.
The fact you chose to bury your head in the sand and not face up to the reality doesn’t bode well for our future.
good luck to all“ie they believe the same impact is happening in the uk.”
Once again, for the very slow: speculation is NOT fact.
Hey Kid life was better under the Tories , they had immigration sorted ..
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
If you weren’t so blinded by ideology you would know it’s been a problem for years under successive governments and I’m sure the shrewd and intelligent people on the MAC wouldn’t have put their name to the report if they weren’t convinced the research was a true and frank belief of the ongoing situation and relevant to the UK.
good luck to all
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