@CostaCoffee
£60 penalty for the pleasure of visiting your new cafe in Hollinwood.
When did it become acceptable to fine customers for sitting at a table, meeting a friend &having a couple of leisurely brews?
Some signs, perhaps - but never again.
So on balance, you lose.
@Heidi_Labour@RailwayMuseum Great idea.
Bus/tram/train pass for 60+ = foc in London. Rest of UK = pension age.
Huge subsidy & deeply unfair.
Charge Londoners, or make it 60 everywhere.
£10 per week = £6k cost for non London residents ?!?
Bee network @AndyBurnhamGM ?
@CllrPaulwells@TheChrisWray@ElectionMapsUK 'Impressive' - until the daily grind & mundane tasks of actually being a councillor land on these tub thumping, single issue opportunists..
Locally, a few of these have risen in recent years, to fade away/resign/get ousted when they turn out to be useless= worse for residents.
@doctor_oxford @RobGMacfarlane Thanks.
Initially denied reablement after a fall, then a myriad of care/physio issues before he died.
In return for c65 years of teaching (in hard state schools around Oldham) between them, their first & only call on the care system was a £1500 per month, ineffective nightmare.
@doctor_oxford @RobGMacfarlane Spot on.
Closely related to this, the almost dysfunctional, hugely expensive domiciliary care system often predates palliative care = a generational betrayal, as my parents age group (c70 & over) who paid their NI (stamp, as they called it) in the expectation of help when needed.
@DanSull36510584@DuncanStott@worstall There a was clearly a reason Clarkson called his toy farm 'Diddley Squat'... was it this?
Which is quite funny is so, tbf - but I suspect he isn't laughing now!
@paullewismoney @helengrimbley @PickardJE@BBCNews@Channel4News@SkyNews Is living on a farm in a bungalow on the land, but no longer working/running things a GROB situation?
Almost certain that is what my Dad's side of our family have done for at least two generations.
Elders retired in mid sixties, next gen move into farmhouse & run everything.
@paullewismoney @helengrimbley @PickardJE@BBCNews@Channel4News@SkyNews So passing on a family concern in middle age/retirement is, presumably, OK as long as your descendants/beneficiary runs things, and you stay alive (whilst retired) for 7+ years?
@BladeoftheS@BBCr4today@asda@Tesco@sainsburys In the UK, many 'shop floor' staff, in all sectors, qualify for Universal Credit= topping up base wages so they can afford to exist & do low paid work.
A huge state subsidy yet not reflected in bonus/salary calculations for CEOs etc al.
Welfare underpins both payroll & bonuses.
@BladeoftheS Indeed.
@BBCr4today on this now.
@asda@Tesco@sainsburys etc al make net profits in the high hundreds of millions.
More NI will increase costs, for sure. As does a minimum wage.
But surely this just reflects the true cost of doing business in a solvent, viable economy?
@drogue7@gaucherp@Cba_WBA1@BladeoftheS In the UK, many 'shop floor' staff, in all sectors, qualify for Universal Credit= topping up base wages so they can afford to exist & do low paid work.
A huge state subsidy yet not reflected in bonus/salary calculations for CEOs etc al.
Welfare underpins both payroll & bonuses.