Comments by "Aden Wellsmith" (@adenwellsmith6908) on "Wandering Turnip " channel.

The other issue. Rates are to be paid before you've even made a sale. That's another factor. What's also happening, is working from home, and people are not buying in cafes, shops etc. They won't get that back easily On the pubs, that's policy. They have decided to destroy pubs.
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PS Congratulations on the 100K! ;-)
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What would be interesting is for WT to visit a few places where it is working, and try and find out why it works there. For example, near me new shops are opening up. Near where my mother lived, in the outer reaches of London, there's a parade of shops. Always had a good bakers, and that's still going strong. A butcher took over the existing butcher's shop. His thing is award winning sausages, and they have queues on a Saturday as a result. They took over the green grocers as a result. What it needs now is a full deli, and a fishmongers. There's already a 24-7 style shop. If they could get a post office, its pretty much complete. You could throw in a cafe/coffee place. The reason it works is people go for one, buy at others. They have some parking, but if that went it would be screwed. So rates and parking are the way to destroy a high street, combined with out of town supermarkets. What councils should do, is provide parking, not the supermarkets. Make sure they are low cost parking. That way people will come in and buy.
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@CMV314 How many barbers do you know that meet the 38K a year income threshold to come to the UK?
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Not left behind. It's got the boot of the state on its neck.
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Barbara has a business in England. The rateable value of her business property is £10,000, so she uses the 2023 to 2024 small business multiplier (49.9 pence) to estimate her business rates as follows: £10,000 (rateable value) x £0.499 pence (multiplier) = £4,990 (basic business rates) So the multiplier to keep it simple is around 50%. So just take the rateable value and half it, and you get what you have to pay before you've even made a sale. Destroying the economy.
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@wanderingturnip DA14 6QL if you want to visit. Another one is Peckham high street. It's interesting, or the Old Kent Road for what can be done at the low end, but still bustling. Personally, I want to live somewhere with a butcher a baker, a candlestick maker. One with good transport links. That's not London, somewhere like a market town. For the more unusual items, the web is the way forward. For example, if you are selling accordions, you have to be online. You might have a store, where people can come and try, but most sales will be net. If you ever go to Istanbul, there's the main bazaar. A very old shopping mall. What's interesting is that its the opposite of the high street. Each street is just for one property. ie. Music, books, you have that in your video. You have Jermyn Street, Savile Row as some areas just left. In Istanbul there is now a street of stolen mobile phones.
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@wanderingturnip Another idea. Where ever you live, look around within a 20-30 mile radius. What are the areas people really want to live. What are the areas people don't want to live. Why? So in London, its places like Hampstead, Knightsbridge, Blackheath, ... The reason is they are villages within a city, imho. The places people don't want to live if they had a choice is the estates, like the Aylesbury estate [now gone thankfully], or parts of Woolwich. Not a village. Just holding cells to be blunt. So whose to blame? It's government, local government for getting involved. The success areas are where they don't get involved.
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@elcprof The question is how should the new reform government deal with him and the mayor's office. 1. Remove it. 2. Refuse to subsidise TFL in any way. 3. Full investigation. There will be corruption 4. Minimum tax on economic migrants of 40K a year [break even]. 5. Deport all criminals. [tax evasion is a crime - Single justice works well there]. 6. I've even had people say, retrospective 40K min tax. After all that's been ruled legal.
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How does online shopping affect nightclubs?
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I like this post on Instagram ================== I worked there in 1957 and have fond memories of the place and the friendly group of people I worked with - Five males and about 50 females.The jam wasn't bad either - all "Hand Made", by Arthur, in big stainless steel pans from real fruit pulp & sugar. Arthur used to wear wooden clogs with steel plates on the soles Reg supervised the women who hand filled and packed the jars Periodically, Harold the "Cooper/Cellar Man" (the fruit came in barrels) swept the chimney and me and the other lad wheeled the soot to the bottom of the yard to dump by the railway tracks. It was hard work, carrying and lifting the fruit & sugar shoulder high into the vast pans. The boiling hot jam splashed onto your skin sometimes and it would stick to you and burn like "Heck" ! But it was well paid and I enjoyed my time there - "Happy Days". Thanks for the reminder with the photo of the "Big old Chimney" ===================
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Watching the Mad Nut Centre. Rick Stein when he went round highlighting food producers had them stand in front of their shop/factory, holding some of their goods. A way of showcasing what they do. That would make a nice shot, with the address and name. Plus its a way of getting them some advertising.
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Why would you go on holiday there? You just have to look how its degraded. The question, how did it get into such a state? Who acted or didnt' act? It's clear, its government. Government is the problem. What's the solution? Clearly not the people who caused the mess.
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The landlords should be offering cheap rents, for pop up, for relatively short term lets. That gets people in. For the more unusual shops. Get specialist shops in, clicks and bricks. Like the book shop doing comics. There's a place a couple of miles away from me that sells accordions. It's storage, its a shop, its a website. If people want one, they can turn up and try. Now look back at medieval shops. All the leather merchants went to the street. You could go there, get competition, but it drags in people.
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1. Dont' want to pay for propaganda. ITV is just collateral damage 2. I want to view when I want to view. 3. Content. Take this channel as an example. When does MSM ever cover things like this? It doesn't. It doesn't' visit industrial estates. Doesn't present the good and the bad in the UK. They just have their heads stuffed up their proverbials.
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@wanderingturnip It's interesting and maybe another angle for you. Like you, I found that comment interesting. It's transient, it disappears with time.' Now you have traces left, like the chimney pointing out what went on. Another example, Jean Calment, the only person to make it to 120 years old. Lived in Arles in the south of France. Her parents ran an art shop. So a journalist interviewing her had done a bit of research and asked her if he had met Van Gogh. Yes, she said, and he stank, I couldn't stand the smell. That disappears with time. So the idea. Why not interview people if you can find them who worked in the Jam factory? [or others] I'm sure there are stories and stories that will be lost unless recorded. One of my peeves with the BBC is the lack of working class representation. It's part of why I don't fund it.
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@fiqhonomics So youre a money lender. Credit Card. You can borrow at 5%. However, 10% of your clients default [its 15 in practice] What rate do you need to charge? Break even, no return, no expenses.
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@fiqhonomics I ask you a question on break even rates for a credit card. Post your answer. It directly questions you assertion of profiteering, and of risk. I assume you can do basic maths,
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@fiqhonomics The second bit. We then have to look at government putting people into debt. The debt bondage issue. But start off with how much interest is fair, with zero profit.
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@fiqhonomics Lastly. Sharia law for government. They need to be banned from any debts.
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@historical_lisa315 Symptom not cause.
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@kasiahalota1199 What charges do you have on banking? How does that compare with the mopney the state extorts from you?
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Notice the reasons. Rates parking. Both directly controlled by the council. And because they have bankrupted themselves, they now have to extort the money from people to pay for the mess. Not that would they ever take a hit on their pensions. However, if you really search you can find their accounts. How big is their black hole? They are down 651 million on top of all the other debts.
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Rent, rates, parking, tax, regulation, ... that's created a void that Amazon has filled. Another example, in the last week I have had to motorbikes drive at me on the pavement. The first one a week ago, I was standing next to two police officers. This was after lots of cyclists had ridden at us and the police ignored it. Same today. When the police don't act, and the criminals decide so what we won't be done, lets commit what is common assault and in the case of a neighbour, hit from behind on the pavement, put in a wheel chair, ABH.
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@jimbob-robob So where are the trillions the workers have paid the socialist welfare state? Why does the state make a 30% gross profit on its services? How does 'care' solve anything?
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