tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post549530053861722562..comments2024-03-28T22:45:51.014+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: Last one out - turn off the lightsCityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-16458902037802737752016-06-20T11:30:53.578+01:002016-06-20T11:30:53.578+01:00From your blog it seems that you are en expert of ...From your blog it seems that you are en expert of writing article. Your contents are amazing and facts are true. I agree to all of your points that you have mentioned.<a href="http://www.mnhousecleaning.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.mnhousecleaning.com</a> | <br><br />Colvin Cordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01736978680121723660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-87625551537499407192016-06-16T11:53:26.410+01:002016-06-16T11:53:26.410+01:00This is such a great resource that you providing a...This is such a great resource that you providing and you give it away for free.<a href="http://www.banshitravels.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.banshitravels.com</a> | <br><br />Ayer Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11996516820271588392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-35123954967254402882016-01-11T20:06:09.262+00:002016-01-11T20:06:09.262+00:00I hadn't finished... mate.I hadn't finished... mate. Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-71402624298028075242016-01-10T20:36:07.668+00:002016-01-10T20:36:07.668+00:00Poetic, KevPoetic, KevNick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-18539530547246462002016-01-10T19:31:56.016+00:002016-01-10T19:31:56.016+00:00On re-reading BQ's post.
We have long been i...On re-reading BQ's post. <br /><br />We have long been in fantasy land on wages propped up by the state. <br /><br />The national debt is increasing at an astronomical rate. <br /><br />Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-86493959916883882602016-01-10T11:19:11.051+00:002016-01-10T11:19:11.051+00:00What if there are lots of people so stupid and use...What if there are lots of people so stupid and useless that their market wages won't support them in the lifestyle that the Guardian and BBC view as their right? Wouldn't tax credits be a better idea than having these people unemployed and getting up to who-knows-what mischief?<br /><br />deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-7725282536099466682016-01-09T06:33:38.750+00:002016-01-09T06:33:38.750+00:00Wasn't the core mistake to purchase a retail c...Wasn't the core mistake to purchase a retail competitor in September whereas if you waited until the January/February bill were due to be paid, the previous owners who have taken the grief and you could have had it for a song.<br /><br />Retail is changing fast. High streets will be showrooms / flagships and the products will be delivered direct to your door from "dark" stores close by. The delivery people will be self-employed Yodel contractors on less than the minimum wage.<br /><br />And before you write off UK plc there are some obscenely profitable companies out there who pay massive Xmas bonuses but are based on property - which likely explains why you couldn't get the freehold.<br /><br />I'm off to get my new car and expensive holiday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-77680633289598458442016-01-09T06:26:01.156+00:002016-01-09T06:26:01.156+00:00Bickering and bitchiness was the order of the day,...Bickering and bitchiness was the order of the day, almost every day.<br /><br />Yes. Yes indeed.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-22671134060175992002016-01-08T20:19:52.716+00:002016-01-08T20:19:52.716+00:00I looked into BTL quite recently and (admittedly I...I looked into BTL quite recently and (admittedly I'd have to borrow a lot) the monthly margins were not comfortable enough. As it happens the value of the typical property has increased by about 10% over two years but the rental prices around here have not changed much at all. I would have struggled to cover incidentals like repairs and voids. <br /><br />The MV/rental ratio is still well out of kilter and only those with a mahoosive deposit or a strong stomach should dabble. <br /><br />May I say. THANK you for employing anyone at all. We owe much to people with the gumption to run businesses generating employment in these over regulated and litigious times.Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-11970457970618590632016-01-08T19:56:02.683+00:002016-01-08T19:56:02.683+00:00I've mentioned here before that round these pa...I've mentioned here before that round these parts 'everyone knows' the going rate for work in the many Tamil-operated businesses - and it ain't the Min Wage<br /><br />while they don't get MW £££, they do however, get MW <i>paperwork</i>, which they can present in order to get Tax Credits ...<br /><br />simplesNick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-39378363152756350272016-01-08T14:43:57.830+00:002016-01-08T14:43:57.830+00:00BQ--The time is coming for a grand alliance of all...BQ--The time is coming for a grand alliance of all British business with one aim:<br /><br />To tell the state to "Fuck Off" and make it stick.<br /><br />How would it be if all business just said NO.<br /><br />NO--we won't collect taxes or VAT any more.<br />NO--we won't adhere to minimum wage of any other bullshit rules. Our task will be to make money in a free market and we are declaring a free market. Wages/prices/competition/health and Safety/Pensions--if we decide to offer same it will be on out terms and you can stick all your laws up your arse.<br /><br />The inflation caused by the state is a tougher one to beat--but you could buy gold and issue your own coins-as happened during the Industrial Reveolution-which would have real value to them not just the empty promises of polits. They would circulate in competition to the states shinplasters.<br /><br />How much money could you make in a true free market? Well it will never happen by politics--so make it happen yourselves.<br /><br />Of course the political and bureaucratic scum will fight back against attacks on their lucrative empire of thieving and dictatorial control. You will have to put cash aside for publicity campaigns and to hire whatever muscle is needed to counter the states costumed thugs. But you will be on the path to real wealth and if you can survive the initial hard times it will soon be the scum of the state running scared of you instead of the other way around.<br /><br />Keeping going as now, being eaten down to nothing with each passing year, has no future. Sooner or later the political scum will destroy everything--including --ultimately--themselves. <br /><br />Why not start the fightback now.Mr Ecksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-12523572370468940582016-01-08T12:33:36.003+00:002016-01-08T12:33:36.003+00:00Commiserations BQ. It's dispiriting to have t...Commiserations BQ. It's dispiriting to have tried ones best but yet ultimately failed. However looking at the wider picture, there is far too much "retail". Shops are absolutely stuffed with merchandise and a lot just doesn't sell I should imagine. The Chinese need to do some tweaking away from manufacturing. Even M&S are stuttering and I can understand why. There is just too much average to poor clobber. I don't know when I last went in there.<br /><br />Also I'd think hard before going down the BTL route. Lots of hassle for not a very good return and the tax treatment is changing (not well publiscised) so that highly leveraged landlords are soon to be bankrupted. Some of them think it's a business yet they don't pay NI. HMRC treat it as an investment yet you only need a void period/a lousy tenant who doesn't pay their rent or trashes the place and you'd be losing.<br /><br />Time for a change of tack perhaps? How about being a full-time MP?Jannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-46096220676860579122016-01-08T12:30:15.007+00:002016-01-08T12:30:15.007+00:00Phil : You are, of course, correct.
But for anyone...Phil : You are, of course, correct.<br />But for anyone employing a lot of staff the options coming up are increase prices or reduce costs.<br /><br />And staff costs are set to rise 30% since 2014-2020.Staff wages account for 75% of our business costs. So a 30% rise on the largest cost can only equal job losses.<br /><br />There is a fair argument that these people should not have been employed in the first place..That wages should have been higher.<br />But its all relative.<br /><br />For instance,today the price of the main item, the very best seller, we increased by 14%<br /><br />First increase on that product since 2013. That increase, and others, will cover some of this April's wage increases. <br /> But I doubt we can do it again next year unless there is a boom {there won't be}.<br />So already, instead of taking the best people from the business I closed,as would be normal practice, I let the whole lot go, with no offers of anything at all.<br /><br />So its cuts to hours and redundancies for 2017 Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-15488080089554733792016-01-08T12:24:20.855+00:002016-01-08T12:24:20.855+00:00We are fecked.We are fecked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-27629871895178079102016-01-08T11:45:56.519+00:002016-01-08T11:45:56.519+00:00@S-L: and also to you!@S-L: and also to you!Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-67092772267281699342016-01-08T11:37:18.458+00:002016-01-08T11:37:18.458+00:00I have been saying that the returns on BTL will so...<i>I have been saying that the returns on BTL will soon turn negative since 2001.</i><br /><br />And without:<br /><br />* rationing of planning permission<br />* very little rationing of immigration<br />* central bank action to make and keep interest rates very low<br />* a landlord friendly tax regimes<br />* a landlord friendly regulatory regime<br />* zero rent regulation<br />* non-regulation of BTL mortgages<br />* granting of BTL mortgages at as much as 15x rental income<br />* a policy and legislative environment that prevents social housing being built / retained<br />* housing benefit policy<br /><br />they might have.Steven_Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029437876479574883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-54849938479658411022016-01-08T11:29:57.823+00:002016-01-08T11:29:57.823+00:00Sackerson: I was talking to BQ actually :)
But ha...Sackerson: I was talking to BQ actually :)<br /><br />But happy new year all the same!Steven_Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029437876479574883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-69248469912173766842016-01-08T11:25:22.217+00:002016-01-08T11:25:22.217+00:00"That's a return that you can get just by...<br />"That's a return that you can get just by putting your money into a buy to let. Or a landlord of a leasehold retail. 5-10% is about right. And for that , you need do almost nothing at all."<br /><br />"If someone can make much more money, much more easily, by investing in a holiday home; why on earth would they bother running a company?"<br /><br />I have been saying that the returns on BTL will soon turn negative since 2001.<br />One day I am going to be right.<br />andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311993288675111834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-17298789546661866872016-01-08T11:20:38.464+00:002016-01-08T11:20:38.464+00:00@Steven_L: Please read. I didn't say that. Bot...@Steven_L: Please read. I didn't say that. Both sides have buggered up the country, since at least the 70s.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-15894373540106815382016-01-08T10:59:08.887+00:002016-01-08T10:59:08.887+00:00"George Osborne [i.e. the taxpayer] has decid..."George Osborne [i.e. the taxpayer] has decided he isn't going to pay for tax credits anymore. Employers must pay for them instead." - but surely this is an absolute must? We cannot have Starbucks/you/whoever paying people low wages and the taxpayer automatically making up the shortfall? (Yes I know the taxpayer pays for housing benefit etc. but that is not so direct a link.) phil5https://www.blogger.com/profile/15393353266959207870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-71673632506072636452016-01-08T10:26:33.818+00:002016-01-08T10:26:33.818+00:00So you're saying things would have been better...So you're saying things would have been better for you with Ed Balls in charge, not changing any of Brown's schemes? LOLSteven_Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029437876479574883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-91779201545718269492016-01-08T09:25:33.735+00:002016-01-08T09:25:33.735+00:00Not just a problem for businesses, BQ, though I co...Not just a problem for businesses, BQ, though I commiserate. Since education has started to adopt the business model, it faces the same problems. I'm told that our particular part of the service - which looks after volatile, school-excluded children - is facing a real-terms 15% cut in the next couple of years, and we're already cut to the bone in staffing. Further staff reductions? - think nuclear piles with fewer damper rods.<br /><br />But, haha, we have a Conservative government so all will be well. Cam-ou-flage's jolly Syrian capers will balance the books. Blair's confidential Senior Stateman helpline - he calls Cam frequently - will tell him how to get us out of this mess - or alternatively, how he can get himself out.<br /><br />I can only hope Julian of Norwich was right, but I don't think she meant secular things when she said all will be well.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-87462844102417969662016-01-08T07:59:35.799+00:002016-01-08T07:59:35.799+00:00You should, er, write to your MP. Seriously.You should, er, write to your MP. Seriously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-79486215297001743582016-01-08T07:51:36.188+00:002016-01-08T07:51:36.188+00:00Don't worry BQ,
they will be coming for your h...Don't worry BQ,<br />they will be coming for your holiday home eventually. Just give them time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com