@rdgchronicle The street cafe licence is around £200. You can argue about whether businesses should be charged, but that is not a number that could kill off a cafe.
@cllrrobwhite Businesses have a resp to procure appropriate waste services. Waste mgnt co shd fulfill their agreement. Why don't you ask the business or Biffa why they have left it in this state? Council tax & business rates shd not be used to clear it up. You know this. So disingenuous.
@Eastreadingcom@ReadingCouncil@cllrrobwhite The Council shd is not responsible for the 'tidy up', tho they shd fine businesses that let it get to this state. Apart from being ugly, it attracts vermin. That business can get bigger bins, have more frequent collections, send packaging back to suppliers, use cardboard cages.
@EdibleReading Unlikely. If they have the facility, but insist on cash anyway, then def no. Likely they are under reporting sales to evade VAT and tax; or need cash to pay off-book staff & suppliers. What other regs are they avoiding? They are at an advantage against law-abiding competitors.
@RoryStewartUK in the last podcast, you said that you couldn’t see any other European country electing an Asian person as leader of the country. You appear to have forgot Ireland’s Leo Varadkar.
@mrjamesob Boris Johnson has lowered our standards so much that we are grateful to have a PM that tucks his shirt in and will not embarrass us whenever he opens his mouth.
@mrjamesob Boris Johnson has lowered our standards so much that we are grateful to have a PM that tucks his shirt in and will not embarrass us whenever he opens his mouth.
@AlokSharma_RDG@BorisJohnson@Conservatives For months & months & months you say nothing of interest or note. The one time you express an actual opinion you get it royally wrong. This is so good. You are so hopeless. Cannot wait for you to be voted out.
@AlokSharma_RDG@BorisJohnson@Conservatives#ReadingWest constituents...Scroll through Alok Sharma's Twitter history. You will struggle to find ANY comment on national politics or local issues. It is a feed full of COP-related stuff and globe-trotting.
He has clearly checked out and is waiting for some NGO/UN/COP job.
@LBC@SangitaMyska Would love Sunak to beat Johnson because Johnson is a disgrace of a man.
But mostly want him to win so racist Tories like this caller are faced with having to support a man with a brown face.
Not that deep down, large swathes of the Conservative Party are racist.
Anybody know what Alok Sharma thinks about this current situation? By not saying or doing anything, he hopes to escape notice. Alas he is my MP and I have no idea what he thinks. In fact, I have no idea where he is.
@SMurphyTV If they have a facility to sell vouchers online, buy some. You can still use it at a later date. Or don’t use it and see it as a gesture of support.
@MrEmilyHeller Don't know if you have this model in Ikea USA. This is comfy (on the firm side), big enough for 2 people and have really handy storage. https://t.co/Ne7p2VnYei