tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post6072011324603265835..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: Sounds like a massive rent seeking scam to me.Mark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-30516056930128328552021-10-08T08:57:38.330+01:002021-10-08T08:57:38.330+01:00Mark, I was including landlording in "busines...Mark, I was including landlording in "businesses".Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-88089244664193504062021-10-07T15:02:02.414+01:002021-10-07T15:02:02.414+01:00Increasing the wages for skilled labour is not so ...Increasing the wages for skilled labour is not so good if you are a lawyer married to a former PM with lots of houses to maintain.<br />Which would explain why the Blairs are anti it.<br /><br />In the Science Museum one reason given for why the Industrial revolution began here was because wages were higher and so companies invested in productivity.L fairfaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274756119129254373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-84188692638063819832021-10-07T13:49:38.644+01:002021-10-07T13:49:38.644+01:00OTOH, see B's comment. Higher real costs don&#...OTOH, see B's comment. Higher real costs don't (and can't possibly) affect total rental value (if they exceed total rental value, people would just walk away). Total rental value is set by the number of customers whose business you hope to solicit.<br /><br />B <i>"It's just a massive government subsidy to UK businesses"</i><br /><br />Close but no cigar. The oligarchs and kleptocrats use the money to buy UK land and buildings. All subsidies accrue to...Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-38966745835405913962021-10-07T13:36:47.090+01:002021-10-07T13:36:47.090+01:00DH, foreign aid from the UK is paid in sterling. ...DH, foreign aid from the UK is paid in sterling. Where is the only place in the world where the grateful recipients can spend that sterling? Yes, the UK, so every penny of it always comes back to us eventually. It's just a massive government subsidy to UK businesses. If it wasn't, the Tories would have got rid of it years ago.<br /><br />OTOH, it's not the costs that have gone up by 30%, it's what the customers are being charged, which bears no relation to the costs.Bayardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211150959757982948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-67769283569251389312021-10-07T12:39:54.619+01:002021-10-07T12:39:54.619+01:00Presumably they can show us the future by only hea...Presumably they can show us the future by only heating the hall to 18 and turning off the lights if the wind is not blowing those days? Perhaps the 30% cost increase is also the embedded green levy in energy and other input prices?ontheotherhandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08912527435489023299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-47461069497543833912021-10-06T20:43:16.406+01:002021-10-06T20:43:16.406+01:00DH, exactly. If you want to keep that aid a-flowin...DH, exactly. If you want to keep that aid a-flowin', you've got to be there and press the flesh, wring out a few crocodile tears, wrinse and repeat. With a bit left over for visits to Miss* Mac Whiplash.<br /><br />* Or indeed Mrs, Mr or Mx Whiplash. Intersectioanlism. Didn't they teach you this at school?Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-55922130134230547362021-10-06T20:39:10.601+01:002021-10-06T20:39:10.601+01:00The important people who can travel from developin...The important people who can travel from developing countries will just be using the overseas aid they recieve. Only instead of going to Swiss banks a small ammount is going to enterprising Weegies. The ladies of Glesgae I am sure will up their act to reflect the higher fees.<br />I am sure there will be no complaints of gouging. Unless Miss MacWhiplash forgets the safe word.Doonhamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07046353503910797372noreply@blogger.com