FatCunth

So perhaps a solution is to make them not an economic burden by allowing them to work and stopping punitive restrictions which force them onto (extremely meagre) state support.

Non-EEA migrants that arrive via legitimate means are generally a net burden to the UK, you think non-EEA refugees are going to fare any better?

We create systems that force people to be a burden then blame them for being a burden.

Yes lets just allow anyone that arrives and claims asylum to work immediately, that won't have far reaching consequences. Why would anyone go through the time and expense of going through legitimate channels by applying for a skilled worker visa or another type of visa if you can just come over and claim asylum and work immediately?

They aren't saying we take in 800 million

The guy isn't from the UK so doesn't understand cultural norms they are asking for a perspective from people who will know.

Have you seen a lot of trains in India if you do not travel first class? They are incredibly busy, personal space certainly isn't readily available, if you were to act like the lady in the story you simply would not be able to use trains in India. I can understand the confusion.

Feels to me like he is trying to not commit a faux pas in future.

Kez the Guru, hes been up to all sorts of shite

It's really not horrendous financial advice, the average price per kWh for electricity on octopus tracker over the past 12 months has been roughly 19p, that includes last winter which is likely to have higher energy prices than this one. The fixed electric only deal with octopus is over 24p per kWh. Tracker only went up higher than that a handfull of times and the absolute highest it went was 31p.

Tomorrow my electric will be costing 18p per kWh, that is 25% less than the fixed tariff. It would cost me £22 more to be on the fixed tariff for the last 30 days alone.

The reasons for massive spikes have passed its unlikely to happen again this year and if it does you can immediately switch to the variable tariff to be protected by the price cap.

Are we just going to ignore the fact the cap dropped by 23% April-June 2023, 37% July-September 2023, 7% October-December 2023 and 12% April-June 2024?

How is building housing not economically productive?

• Jobs for the people involved in designing the building

• Jobs for the people involved in constructing the building

• Jobs for the people involved in maintaining the building

• Jobs for the people operating the building

• The people residing in the building spend money in local businesses

• The people residing in the building work at other economically productive buildings in the city

What do they do for Harpurhey beyond employing one security guard?

The first 4 points.

Secondly it provides housing for new people moving into the city so they don't move to Harpurhey and displace people that have lived there their whole life?

I guess if you were going to go as far as covering the cameras you could also get someone else to make a withdrawal of the same value and allow it to be taken back by the machine to purposely cause confusion but by the time you are going to that effort I imagine it would be much easier and less risky to just put a card skimmer on the machine and steal other people's money

Ah ok fair enough. The machine registers when someone doesn't take their cash and drags it back into the machine so it would be associated with a specific transaction, later on the cashier would balance the machine to check whether it was under or over as well so they would easily find out.

I guess if it happened twice before they refilled it with the same value withdrawal they may have a bit of a harder time to work it out but they all have CCTV iirc.

My.partner used to work in a bank and balance.the ATMs

The older paper notes had serial numbers

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-08-14/ukraine-has-clear-right-to-use-british-weapons-on-russian-soil-mod-says

Pretty sure chungs chippy in Salford do this gravy... Isn't it pretty much just standard gravy with added soy sauce & oyster sauce?

Is profit margin not irrelevant though?

No. It's very relevant.

The profit margin above is roughly 4%. That is literally 4p profit on every pound spent.

eg. They sell something for £1, they are making 4p profit. This is so thin something as small as a freezer going down and the food in there being spoiled could push them into loss.

Are you genuinely suggesting it's a sustainable business model to reduce this?

From the second half of your initial post:

Plus renting in the city centre is mental as well for small businesses. There’s a place on Stevenson square up for rent now, it’s not massive. They want £3000 per month, business rates are another £800 per month and there’s an unspecified service charge. With staffing costs and utilities you’re probably talking minimum £15k monthly just to keep the place open. If you make £2 profit, which is probably generous, on every pint you sell, you need to sell 7500 pints a month just to break even.

Let's assume they sell the pints for £6, £2 profit would be a profit margin of 33%. Imagine how many pints they would need to sell if they were only making 24p per pint (4%). 62,500 pints.

Yeah this is it. Had to listen to the big supermarkets tell us that their costs are going up so their prices are during the cost of living crisis, yet Morrisons, Tesco, Asda have all reported massive increases in profits? So clearly their prices are going up more than their costs are.

The nominal value for profit will increase yes because costs have increased and therefore prices have increased. Their profit margins have remained pretty consistent.

Tesco profit margin for:

• 2020 - 4.4%

• 2021 - 3.1%

• 2022 - 4.6%

• 2023 - 3.8%

• 2024 - 4.1%

https://www.tescoplc.com/investors/reports-results-and-presentations/financial-performance/five-year-record/

If you are insistent on using nominal values then wages are at also the highest level they have ever been....

Darbar is Persian/Iranian

The problem is that most rentals are owned by big corporations

No they aren't?

Most (84%) tenancies were represented by individual landlords, with companies representing 13% and those with both or other organisations 3%. In 2018, the picture was largely the same, Annex Table 1.3.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-private-landlord-survey-2021-main-report/english-private-landlord-survey-2021-main-report--2#chapter-1-profile-of-private-landlords

Yes they are all sat there pressing F5 on the GDP figures before deciding whether to attend a riot later

What are you asking?

No one can guarantee what you are going to come across if you visit

I live in the city centre and have not heard a peep, if it wasn't for the news coverage I'd not even know there has been disturbances, there are others who have probably had the complete opposite experience