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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 09:45 6 Jul 2024
Also there is a massive need to tell people that you won't own your own home, instill rent caps and hello generation rent.
The prediction for the next 5 years is a slowdown in the price increases up to 2025 and 2025/26 expect 7% increases. Unfortunately wages will not increase by the same percentage points.
Also dispense with right to buy, otherwise there is no social housing coming in the next 5 as Councils will stop the funding. Andy Burnham has called for it to be scrapped to address the housing crisis in Manchester. Plus if you are in there, you are in for a reason and if you can afford it then go and buy in the market and free up the property for someone who needs it. |
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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 12:19 5 Jul 2024
Definitely,
Labour won 2/3 of the seats with 1/3 of the vote. |
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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 10:47 5 Jul 2024
That would be the red tape that we were warned about, an arrangement which we were quite happy with when we were in the EU.
I believe it is just in our and not the remainder of the EU’s interests to reduce the barriers to trade and how exactly will they be reduced?
Talking of punitive measures did you know that there are 197 countries that have import tariffs.
I am also geologically positive that we were part of the rest of the world whilst we were in the EU. |
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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 09:54 5 Jul 2024
It’s not exactly been a rip-roaring success though, from the Cambridge Econometrics report published in January 2024:
The average Briton was nearly £2,000 worse off in 2023, while the average Londoner was nearly £3,400 worse off last year as a result of Brexit.
London has 290,000 fewer jobs than if Brexit had not taken place, with half the total two million job losses nationwide coming in the financial services and construction sectors.
The economic damage is only going to get worse – with more than £300bn set to be wiped off the value of the UK’s economy by 2035 if no action is taken, and more than £60 billion wiped off the value of London’s economy alone.
Comparing a central scenario to one in which the UK stayed in the Customs Union and Single Market, by 2035, Cambridge Econometrics projects:
The UK will have 3 million fewer jobs, of which approximately 500,000 would have been in London.
The UK will have 32% lower investment, leading to lower output.
The UK will have 15.8% lower imports and 4.6% lower exports.
Give it time and your metric of ‘disaster’ will be absolutely smashed out of the park. |
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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 17:23 4 Jul 2024
Hopefully they will have more of an idea of what they are voting for this time. |
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Reply | Southend
at 14:29 26 Jun 2024
Southend fans better strap in for the long haul, the Council has notched up £355m of debt in the past 10 years and voted through £14m worth of budget cuts for 2024/25 in Jan this year.
Given the location, the houses will sell like hot cakes and subsidy should not be required but in this financial climate, levering a football club's future will not result into the Council subsidising money they do not have.
Whilst Adult and Childrens social care remains under the local authority purview, no Council is doing anything. |
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Reply | Another one gone…..
at 11:10 27 May 2024
Sod that, should Dale be making a run at him?
Make Jim his assistant, Pete can show him how to manage and it would be akin to on the job learning for Jim. |
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Reply | "the Wall of Rochdale"
at 10:38 27 May 2024
Switched over and watched Leinster v Toulouse in rugby european cup, brilliant game and the french side won in Ireland. Thought the fa cup final was drab to say the least, still a firework show compared to Jim's football though. |
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Reply | Salford looking for investment......
at 20:33 23 May 2024
The attraction for the Council for warehouses is that stacks of warehouses = stacks of business rates for the Council. In the era of declining Revenue Support Grants and central govt push for them to become self-sufficient, it is Councils ability to retain their business rates that is absolutely key to their survival.
Also, the location lends itself to a warehouse landscape. Furthermore, there is appetite for the construction of warehouses from the company building a warehouse and utilising our excellent road connections to the pension funds that invest in the construction of warehouses to provide rental returns. Pension funds, who have stacks of cash to invest in assets that provide steady eddie returns and warehouses do that. |
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Reply | Salford looking for investment......
at 19:25 23 May 2024
Agreed on the parking issue, feel some of the drainage issues this year are a mixture of mother nature and perhaps cutting costs, so we made it to the end of the season. I lived near vicarage road and for the football you just plan for it and get used to it for the 23 home games a year for 3-4 hours a time. No great shakes.
Had a look into the Atom Valley development and the vision is to create a dynamic, interconnected manufacturing mega-cluster, blending innovative world-class industry with ground-breaking research and development.
The main site has the capacity to accommodate a mega-factory, one of only a small number of sites in the UK with this capability. However, the sites are suitable locations for companies of all sizes.
The main focus on the type of industry is advanced machinery for manufacturing and advanced sustainable materials, with a special emphasis on innovative technologies which contribute to achieving the Net Zero target.
I don’t know if a football ground will fit in with the Atom plan, but GMCA lead on it and it would have to go through them. |
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Reply | Salford looking for investment......
at 21:09 22 May 2024
I think the challenge from RMBC would be you have a perfectly good stadium that is more than fit for purpose and it is not as if the current stadium is falling to pieces and we need to move.
RMBC may also point to the mutli millionaire owner of RAFC and may also suggest that the proceeds from the sale of COA could help with any shortfall.
A quick look at the RMBC Q3 finance report has reported that adult social services is heading for a £2.9m overspend and childrens social services are £6.8m overspent. Football may not be top of the agenda.
The levelling up money secured in the last round of bidding will be spent on improvement works at Rochdale station, Heywood town centre and Middleton town centre.
The upsides quoted are heavily in the football clubs interest and cannot see how it benefits or, more importantly, provides value for money for the Council or the wider council taxpayers. |
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Reply | Club Statement. Deal done
at 18:27 14 May 2024
I think that sponsors are looking for more than just positive vibes from the fanbase and performance comes into it somewhere along the line.
Just can't see past Ryan Air right now. |
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Reply | Season Ticket Prices & Details
at 12:38 14 May 2024
Agreed and if you want to get your matchday ticket from the ticket office there is now a £1 printing charge. This may impact the floaters who do not buy season ticket but are an essential revenue stream for the club and the price will go to £23 for non league football for Pearl St. That may be a sticking point for some.
Its like Michael O'leary from Ryanair has visited for the day to revise our pricing structures. |
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Reply | Club Statement. Deal done
at 12:19 14 May 2024
Co-op have agreed to sponsor the co-op live venue in eastlands to the tune of £100m over 15 years.
Start playing winning football and the sponsors should come but what is the attraction to sponsor us right now? Going to need at least a season to turn it around. |
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Reply | Andy Burnham
at 10:27 6 May 2024
Effective steps for running productive board meetings
1. Step 1 – get clear on the board chair role. ...
2. Step 2 – ensure board members know their role. ...
3. Step 3 – communicate before, during, and after the board meeting. ...
4. Step 4 – use meeting time well: right agenda, right leadership. ...
5. Step 5 – prepare for meetings effectively.
0/5 - they need help or replacing. |
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Reply | Fair Game statement to the FA
at 20:48 1 May 2024
Agreed and most teams will know where their season lies by Jan anyway.
If they are that concerned then they should stack their teams with the stars in the first place. It is not the lower leagues teams fault that their B teams can't beat them first time of asking.
Don't whine, try harder! |
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Reply | Changes to the National League for next season
at 20:31 1 May 2024
If they are just switching the dates but retaining the format of a home and away fixture with the same team then the timeframe between boxing day and new years day is 6 days, for the Easter period it is only 3 days. |
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Reply | Hartlepool sack Kevin Phillips......
at 17:11 30 Apr 2024
I believe the word was he did not do as well as south shields expected based on budget versus that of the rest of the division and so got shut of him.
There wasn't much of a queue of teams trying to snap him up when he did become free though. |
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