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On 10/08/2023 at 14:03, RentingForever said:
Is this why hotel prices are absolutely through the roof this year?
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On 10/08/2023 at 14:03, RentingForever said:
Is this why hotel prices are absolutely through the roof this year?
Yep used to pay for a seaside Premier inn Sunday night and Monday night used to be around £70 quid, now over £250 for room only
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We purchased a bungalow after i had a issue with my knee, turned out to be the best move of our lives so easy living on one floor lovely area as well.We have neighbors who speak and respect each other, cant believe how we survived the inner city even tho it was considered a sought after area. My good lady walks to the shops now without fear of feral youths the streets sides covered in those small gas cylinders dog mess everywhere and barking constantly etc etc ,our whole living standard really has gone up so much , maybe that's why they are holding up in price or going up as in the main they are built in areas away fro the City's
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In aldi last week bags now have to be inspected at the checkout lady on checkout said that its now policy, she told me of many cases of beer are not being paid for they are put underneath the trolley with a bag covering them from the operators sight, also they were selling metal clothes dryers they were being taped to the side of the trolley and then against the checkout shelf she said out of around 50 in stock last week only a third had been paid for
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Yorkshire evening Post are doing a regular feature on the biggest 10 drops of the week, you can view without subscribing 5 times a week .
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Their profits will take a battering, Bricklayers now 300 per day more in London Joiners /Plumbers around 240 etc etc, when the builders from the eu were on our shores its was half that mind you the quality of build will be better now
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9 hours ago, Pebbles said:
Yep I now have a negative energy bill. Solar panels and a cheap fix mean I have pretty cheap energy.
Not paid a penny since we got ours in and the standing charge is offset by the grid returns, this from 10 panels 1 x 4kw battery cost was just short of 7 k, 2 people usage were home most days 4 bed bungalow mostly electric powered.we also have a wood burner which is brilliant and been a big saving.
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11 hours ago, shlomo said:
are the bikes for uberdelivery and deliveroo jobs
Not sure i never imagined they could be used for that, a lot of the migrants get picked up in the morning after breakfast by transit vans and return at night in time for evening meals , people say they work for cash in the local economy. Lots of pictures of them receiving the bikes locally, non have the big box's on the back needed for food delivery but sure it would be easy to adapt the bikes, also quite a few of the bikes were of the racing type so not really suitable. I'm more bothered who actually pays for the bikes and who is supplying them
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7 minutes ago, debtlessmanc said:
I need to stay in Bristol in a few weeks time (i always thought an expensive place). Travelodge coming up as £44 for the night. Must admit i was amazed. Is this a supply and demand thing? I grew up in Hull and my brother still lives there. He was bending my ear last time i saw him about how the local hotel was full of asylum seekers, who hang outside the local school. Its still a very “white area” so people notice, his wife is church goer and local vicar has been trying to get them into church. Look i am not wearing tin foil hat, but it does sound as though the govt is sticking the asylum seekers in places it does not associate with tourism. It would make financial sense to do this.
Same was happening around our local hotel (120 rooms) which is full of our new friends at the moment , a few weeks ago new bikes for them all turned up, so as of now don't see so much of them around in the daylight hours
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I Got 500 off the price and 5 services for taking the loan paid it off after the 6 month min period happy days .
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5 minutes ago, Bob8 said:
Were there really? I mean, honestly?
5 minutes ago, Bob8 said:Were there really? I mean, honestly?
yep a few of them were waving their EU flags holding up pictures of Gary Lineker chanting we want another vote
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Been in Aldi today in North Yorks plenty of every veg also excellent prices , a few remoaners were outside crying and stamping their feet sad to see really .
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Dreading our bills just got back from Holiday to find the house totally inhabitable due to flooding from burst pipes had to travel 40 miles for overnight accommodation, normal customers at our 3 nearest hotels were shut to people as they have been taken over by Serco/Home office for our new friends from the channel .The house is being dried out by 2 large heaters dehumidifiers etc on full blast cant get in touch with insurance co they just wont answer the phone or emails but doubt they will pay the electricity/gas bills forthcoming. Never believed in this Broken Britain talk but do now
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5 million wouldnt buy a decent league 1 footballer ?
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15 hours ago, MarkD said:
Where are they housing them? The numbers now are huge. There can't be too many spare hotel rooms left.
Serco are actively acquiring properties from owner / landlords in West Yorks and no doubt nationwide on 3/ 5 yr deals with guaranteed rent paid by Government re us. So the length of the rent periods shows to me they have no intention of stopping these people from coming here.
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Both but i would go 60/40 with the 60 being bottling the rate rise
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Down around 7k (tanking but riding out the storm) on so called equity fund investments up around 6k in fixed interst bonds, assets up around 8% (house) . Not a disaster but its becoming probably worst year for a long time . When and if bond prices hit 7% will do some switching and also take some income.
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4 hours ago, quine said:
SW London here and we've heard from two tradesmen within last month (carpenter and a brickie) that they are expecting work to fall off a cliff. I hope it hits the overpriced electricians who at the moment are charging themselves at £80 an hour and same for any additional time. We just paid almost £300 for an electrician to swap an extractor fan in the shower room (includes £70 for fan)
That sort of money would maybe get me back to work
as an electrician i charged 20ph in yorkshire worked mainly for the housewife but after covid decided to join the non working ranks. I just couldnt be bothered getting going again seeing so many furloghed and people on benefits playing the system re getting money for virtually nothing and still are in a lot of instances , so decided to pack it all in and join them taking a early pension , a few years early but no more hassle etc.
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stockmarket is crashing by default as its well down on its high but take into consideration inflation and the crash is with us now
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10 hours ago, PeanutButter said:
Cost of living latest updates: New prediction bills could top £5,000 next year – at £571 in January alone; energy bosses summoned for crunch talks
Never mind we nearly have HS2now to shave a few mins off a journey from the north to London.
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4 hours ago, byron78 said:
Whereabouts? Private?
West Yorkshire private, but we do get grants from lottery and sports councils to a lesser extent
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1 hour ago, byron78 said:
What sort of club requires help with investments?
ours we are a multi purpose sports club serving the community
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57 minutes ago, byron78 said:
I'm also a bit sick of everyone pretending cutting funding to the bone for most things isn't causing issues and problems.
Well
the club im involved with gets most of its trade from the local estates where 75% are council /housing association owned , our trade has never been better we are taking on two more bar staff when the extra gov money drops into peoples accounts next few weeks. Also we benefit from the work from home brigade who normally leave the premises worse for wear
so to speak which could never of happened in the workplace, so all in all life is good for the clubs sure its same around the country .
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6 minutes ago, Lucky Larry said:
There is always a percentage of bad apples in every group
yes probably its just because the conservatives are in power and also there are more of them in action so to speak, the media hate them so much is probably why we constantly hear about them daily above all other news. I can remember Labours Prescott table ending his assistant in the HOC office and many more issues .We do need a new way of doing things as its obvious this system isn't working and it never will they are all in it for themselves or the vast majority are . Oh and shut down all the tax payer funded bars etc in Westminster i don't know of any other workplace with them .
And even the second leg of HS2 now gone
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We cant have shiny new toys when we are spun king so much on 3 star and above hotels for our new guests,something has to give.