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Originally posted by BolshieBastard View PostBecause councils want to wring the last penny out of businesses and really dont give a ****.
I ran a retail business for 5 years with Mrs Bolshie. We were lucky to get out with the clothes on our back. The local council use every trick in the book to screw you for money.
They repeatedly questioned us where we took our rubbish and why we were not buying rubbish removal services from them. We repeatedly told them (and showed them) we recycled virtually everything. The small amount of stuff we didnt recycle, was stored on site.
They just would not believe you could recycle so much stuff and continually pestered us. Eventually to shut them up and get them off our back, we engaged a certified waste disposal company to come and take away one bin sack of rubbish. It cost us £50 but also provided a certification of waste.
The next time the council came round and demanded to know where our rubbish went I stuffed the certificate under the weasel's nose. I kid not, he spent 10 minutes closely examining the certificate and phoned his office to confirm the company was on the council's approved list of waste companies!
Its no wonder there are so many empty stores.
Well who gives a **** whether the business makes money or not. What is important is that the council needs to pay the employees 100K plus and massive bonuses year after year. And gold plated pensions. Council is nothing but a job creation vehicle and a old boy club for the same people to circulate around different councils getting massive pay rises each time.Vote Corbyn ! Save this country !Comment
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Originally posted by fullyautomatix View PostWell who gives a **** whether the business makes money or not. What is important is that the council needs to pay the employees 100K plus and massive bonuses year after year. And gold plated pensions. Council is nothing but a job creation vehicle and a old boy club for the same people to circulate around different councils getting massive pay rises each time.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostUm, most people working for the council earn like £19K.
If you watch locally you will see that in the current cuts initially the councils sacked a middle management layer. Since then all cuts have been done at lower levels while the senior management have tried to keep themselves and their mates in their well paid jobs....merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Originally posted by BolshieBastard View PostThey repeatedly questioned us where we took our rubbish and why we were not buying rubbish removal services from them. We repeatedly told them (and showed them) we recycled virtually everything. The small amount of stuff we didnt recycle, was stored on site.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by BolshieBastard View PostBecause councils want to wring the last penny out of businesses and really dont give a ****.
I ran a retail business for 5 years with Mrs Bolshie. We were lucky to get out with the clothes on our back. The local council use every trick in the book to screw you for money.
They repeatedly questioned us where we took our rubbish and why we were not buying rubbish removal services from them. We repeatedly told them (and showed them) we recycled virtually everything. The small amount of stuff we didnt recycle, was stored on site.
They just would not believe you could recycle so much stuff and continually pestered us. Eventually to shut them up and get them off our back, we engaged a certified waste disposal company to come and take away one bin sack of rubbish. It cost us £50 but also provided a certification of waste.
The next time the council came round and demanded to know where our rubbish went I stuffed the certificate under the weasel's nose. I kid not, he spent 10 minutes closely examining the certificate and phoned his office to confirm the company was on the council's approved list of waste companies!
Its no wonder there are so many empty stores.
Back in 2001 or so I had a shop (computers) and another unit/store in a business centre, where the bin collections etc were private and included in the rent. I was repeatedly chased for moving cardboard boxes from the shop, where I would have to pay the council extra for bin collections, to the unit where I didn't. In the end the council legal department stopped me doing it as moving boxes is 'unsafe' and I did not have the required waste transfer certificate to move it myself. In the end, I had to buy a roll of bin bags from the council's private bin collectors (which included the collection fees) for £240 !!
More recently, when I had a café, the council hassled the living daylights out of me about waste oil disposal, which was actually done by another branch of the bloody council who have a waste oil recycling plant (to make biofuel) to run council vehicles on. They came in nearly every two weeks to ask ho I disposed of waste oil and checked the box file of waste transfer certificates, despite the fact that there would only be one more than there was the last time he was in.
Also, just before I bought the café, the council told the previous owner to change the flooring in the take-away are to industrial non slip, then told me that the non slip stuff was difficult to clean and should be changed (but not compulsory, luckily) to smooth lino
Councils are generally justWhen freedom comes along, don't PISH in the water supply.....Comment
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Originally posted by Eirikur View PostHighstreet shops are so last millenium.
Out of town malls are the way to goOriginally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostWhy has this not happened before across the country?
I really do not understand why business rates have not been dramatically cut in areas with large amounts of empty premises.
Rochdale proposes to cut business rates by up to 80% | News | Drapers
BBC News - High Street: Portas criticises government over 'token gestures'What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostAs it gives the opportunity for the landlord to increase rents
Nevermind the utility companies charging about £1/day each as a standing charge.McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."Comment
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