Death Of London

[Gloommonger]

9 hours ago, Melchett said:

 

Hint, someone started a thread about it yesterday... 

Can't be arsed to look, can you tell us?

[Melchett]

1 minute ago, Gloommonger said:

Can't be arsed to look, can you tell us?

That Cunt Blair and his mate Broon came to power.

[Gloommonger]

Just now, Melchett said:

That Cunt Blair and his mate Broon came to power.

of course. Thanks. No more boom and bust we will just print it!

[SNACR]

6 hours ago, Melchett said:

That Cunt Blair and his mate Broon came to power.

Although, you could get the impression, from present accounts, they were some sort of military junta who arrived via a coup rather than repeated democratic elections.

[Austin Allegro]

14 hours ago, SNACR said:

Although, you could get the impression, from present accounts, they were some sort of military junta who arrived via a coup rather than repeated democratic elections.

Same with Maggie. Lefty writers like Will Self quite often use phrases like 'The Thatcher regime' as if she was Eva Peron without the singing career.

[eight]

5 hours ago, Austin Allegro said:

Same with Maggie. Lefty writers like Will Self quite often use phrases like 'The Thatcher regime' as if she was Eva Peron without the singing career.

We named our daughter after Eva Peron. Although we sometimes tell people it was Eva Braun, for a laugh.

[Wight Flight]

2 minutes ago, eight said:

We named our daughter after Eva Peron. Although we sometimes tell people it was Eva Braun, for a laugh.

Why would calling your daughter Maria cause confusion?

[The Generation Game]

6 hours ago, eight said:

We named our daughter after Eva Peron. Although we sometimes tell people it was Eva Braun, for a laugh.

This is my daughter, Peroni, named after Eva Braun. 

[spygirl]

On 27/08/2020 at 12:23, Melchett said:

Which is odd, as neither of those have been the case for nigh on 25 years.

Funny how these urban myths persist.

Much like the one about there being a graduate pay premium. I think that dates back about the same time since it was true.

 

I wonder what happened about 20-25 years ago that fucked everyone over so much?

Hint, someone started a thread about it yesterday... 

The 'property ladder' is nothing more than wage inflation previously rising faster than prices/housing inflation.

No wage inflation, no property ladder.

I'm not sure its sunk in.

Banks wont lend more than MMR which is 4.5 incomes tops - normally much less.

[spygirl]

29 minutes ago, The XYY Man said:

Fuck me, you're talking sense.

Also there are no spelling errors, and only a couple of minor apostrophe infringements.

So who the fuck are you - and what have you done with spygirl...?

 

XYY

 

Fuck me, your sober.

[spygirl]

Law firms launch new round of cost cuts as pandemic bites

https://www.ft.com/content/0f0e6e90-e05c-4574-a7a8-0725439be051

Law firms are ~5 years in going thru a similar sort of reduction in headcounts that the broad accountancy sector started 20 odd years ago.

For same reason - technology, customer better at buying/not bullshitted anymore.

The article refers to higher end, London based firms.

 

 

[spygirl]

Same doom, different area:

The commuter town shopping centre that encapsulates UK retail crisis

Intu’s Watford mall has lost its anchor tenants and suffered as pandemic pushes sales online

https://www.ft.com/content/84b0c10a-10ef-42d3-afb4-c37e08d01c8c

 

When residents of Watford heard their local John Lewis department store would be closing after dominating the town’s shopping centre for three decades, they did not hold back.

“Absolutely disgusting,” Nikki Coleman, a retiree and local resident said of the decision.

 

Youve got the structural changes in retail plus the large covid induced changes, all meeting high resi housing costs.

Fucked.

 

 

Edited September 1, 2020 by spygirl

[spygirl]

 

The fact that John Lewis could not earn a sufficient profit on a store in a prosperous location that paid no rent, reflects the profound crisis engulfing UK retail.

Watford is not an obvious location for such financial distress. Located just inside London’s orbital motorway and surrounded by wealthy villages, its high-end retail tenants include Hugo Boss, TAGHeuer and Mike Ashley’s Flannels.

No entirely. Housing costs have sucked up free cash. Now wage and jobs are going, leaving nothing.

[wherebee]

On 30/08/2020 at 00:44, spygirl said:

Fuck me, your sober.

never has the location of a comma been so important.

[Austin Allegro]

6 hours ago, spygirl said:

 

The fact that John Lewis could not earn a sufficient profit on a store in a prosperous location that paid no rent, reflects the profound crisis engulfing UK retail.

Watford is not an obvious location for such financial distress. Located just inside London’s orbital motorway and surrounded by wealthy villages, its high-end retail tenants include Hugo Boss, TAGHeuer and Mike Ashley’s Flannels.

No entirely. Housing costs have sucked up free cash. Now wage and jobs are going, leaving nothing.

I don't know where they get the idea from that Watford is up-market. For years it's been a sort of lower-middle place like Slough or Staines or Rickmansworth. It's not somewhere fairly classy like St Albans or Amersham, for example.

[eight]

7 minutes ago, Austin Allegro said:

I don't know where they get the idea from that Watford is up-market. For years it's been a sort of lower-middle place like Slough or Staines or Rickmansworth. It's not somewhere fairly classy like St Albans or Amersham, for example.

Harry Potter lives there.

[spygirl]

The 1980s 'super recession': When unemployment topped 3m - and kept rising

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/53926797/the-1980s-super-recession-when-unemployment-topped-3m-and-kept-rising

blah blah blah 3mm .. 193 -> 1986 .... London recovered due to expansion of the financial sector .... Norther/Scotland/Ni suffered ...

 

And now, down to Covid and the continued decimation of the finsec you are going to see large increases in London unemployment.

 

[MrPin]

8 minutes ago, spygirl said:

And now, down to Covid and the continued decimation of the finsec you are going to see large increases in London unemployment.

£100 bottles of Champagne might be going out of fashion?

[Austin Allegro]

1 hour ago, eight said:

Harry Potter lives there.

Economicus Fuctupitus!

[onlyme]

8 minutes ago, MrPin said:

£100 bottles of Champagne might be going out of fashion?

And the rest, add a zero.

 

[Errol]

Watford 'up-market' ...

Hahahahahahah ...

[spygirl]

Cities count cost of lasting exodus from offices

Companies preparing plans for more permanent flexible way of working following pandemic

 

https://www.ft.com/content/203cc83c-72b0-49c9-bea5-6fb38735a8fc

 

[spygirl]

[MrPin]

Doncaster seems unnaturally popular @spygirl? Maybe it's a boon for the half-price knocking shops?

[HolyCow]

Wonder what effect this will have it becomes reality;

https://anonym.to/?https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8733137/EU-threatens-City-London-150billion-day-trade-euros-Brexit-talks-turn-ugly.html