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Went out canvassing at the weekend. I'm not very good at the whole persuasion thing, but I hope that just being visible and listening to people is valuable in itself. Going to see if I can find some of the Momentum training material before next time. Weirdest person I met was the polish guy who walked up while I was talking to his wife and just shouted "Conservative" and slammed the door. Funniest was the enormous ruddy-faced gammon who bellowed "oi'm a Labour man, but this time oi'm votin' Boris". Also got to meet several very nice Labour activists, a couple of very dull Labour activists, and some excellent doggos. Would recommend even for antisocial goons.
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I always used to feel more of a lurker than a poster on SA. Then I looked at my user profile and I was at almost a post a day average. That average has climbed, meaning since I made that discovery, probably 2 years ago, I've made well in excess of a post a day, given that it's almost a decade of time overall. Dear lurkers  then maybe you too will be part of a radical new podcast.
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peanut- posted:I can't find a link to it now but I definitely read a study that showed for any decrease in business rates, 100% of the cost saving ends up being passed on to commercial landlords. Which makes logical sense, rent & rates are combined fixed premises costs and if the tax element falls the other one will raise. you are correct on the basic economics of it - if it is inelastic, all the incidence falls on the landlord in the long run. Much of the property value is location value, which is largely inelastic. As you point out, the rent just adjusts to the rate. (this is why the Adam Smith Institute, not normally an opponent of tax cuts, opposed Osborne's cut to business rates) the problem being posed here is "what if it is not inelastic though". Specifically - empty shops. If the occupancy rate is not 100% then it can no longer be assumed the incidence falls wholly on the landlord. This is the headline factor that is relevant to voters who see boarded-up shop windows. Say what you will about the endless lettings agents, but if they disappear to zoopla it's not an improvement to high street either. The online-vs-brick&mortar decision shifts the incidence to the tenant - property values that require owner investment. Rates are on property values per se, not land value, so there is still some elasticity on infrastructure. About a third of commercial businesses own their own property, so it matters for local business groups deciding whether or not to invest in some high street regeneration programme - rates don't affect companies equally - businesses occupying single small properties enjoy a progressive relief. The higher the rate, the more valuable the relief; business rates hence favour small, single-property businesses that are intensely vulnerable to economic shocks rather than e.g. regional chains of several properties. This fragility drives continual turnover which drives more frequent void periods.
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I can't get enough of are Dan
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Rarity posted:I can guarantee to our lurkers that your contributions will have more value than Tess's you harlot! Jose posted:apparently the BBC just said labour shouldn't politicise the NHS just now based on the number of tweets i'm seeing commenting on it A bunch of medical orgs today came out making GBS threads on Labour and the Tories for politicising the NHS. One of them specifically attacked Labour for offering a nationalised drug manufacturer because "who would fund the research for new medicines??"
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Jose posted:apparently the BBC just said labour shouldn't politicise the NHS just now based on the number of tweets i'm seeing commenting on it Not quite, it was the NHS providers chief who went on to blame the NHS's issues on the "extra demand". What an absolute raging oval office.
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Nov 4, 2019 11:51
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Tesseraction posted:you harlot! Not proving me wrong
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Tesseraction posted:you harlot! lol who is doing it now ffs. the entire reason we're running out of antibiotics is that developing them doesn't make money for pharma companies
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Nov 4, 2019 11:53
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https://twitter.com/EmmaKennedy/status/1191301597340585984 wow this changes everything!!
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Nov 4, 2019 11:55
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Nov 4, 2019 11:56
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https://twitter.com/yasminjananjum/status/1190593585785311233?s=20 LMAO who wants a limited edition #Rorywalks London mayoral campaign phone cover?
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Nov 4, 2019 11:56
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alphabettitouretti posted:https://twitter.com/EmmaKennedy/status/1191301597340585984 But... but...  The dream is dead 
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Junior G-man posted:https://twitter.com/yasminjananjum/status/1190593585785311233?s=20 Too vertical
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Nov 4, 2019 11:58
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corbs is a good and the sun is poo poo but lol https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10272024/duping-corbyn-supports-terrorists/ not as funny as millibong.jpg though
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clear eyes full farts posted:corbs is a good and the sun is poo poo but lol https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10272024/duping-corbyn-supports-terrorists/ Man signs paper in good faith, doesn't scrutinise it for potentially nazi stunt. Epic owned, wrap it up leftailures
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Nov 4, 2019 12:00
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Tesseraction posted:Man signs paper in good faith, doesn't scrutinise it for potentially nazi stunt. Epic owned, wrap it up leftailures Just think about how easily he'll be tricked into signing away ARE SOVEREIGNTY.
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clear eyes full farts posted:corbs is a good and the sun is poo poo but lol https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10272024/duping-corbyn-supports-terrorists/ Comment section is like "he signs without reading! He can't be PM!"
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clear eyes full farts posted:corbs is a good and the sun is poo poo but lol https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10272024/duping-corbyn-supports-terrorists/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKfEtYYqSl4
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Nov 4, 2019 12:04
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ronya posted:In many sports, compensation is a lottery - the best player in the world makes mad bank. The tenth best player might need a day job to pay the bills. The difference between their quantifiable performance might be miniscule. Socialise the entertainment industries. If you make mad bank, your mad bank helps to subsidise those who haven't made it yet, or never will. It's worth supporting people to try, because some of them might become good at it  I say this as a poverty-stricken musician who is pretty okay actually  
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alphabettitouretti posted:https://twitter.com/EmmaKennedy/status/1191301597340585984 https://twitter.com/AndyJBowes/status/1191303641854033920 it really doesn't either
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Tesseraction posted:wrap it up leftailures I'm very proud a forums meme I started has now spread to the point people use it without even knowing the original reference
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:https://twitter.com/AndyJBowes/status/1191303641854033920 But they might come second after the Tories!
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alphabettitouretti posted:https://twitter.com/EmmaKennedy/status/1191301597340585984 Lol Labour are second place and 20,000 votes behind. It's amazing - the Remain alliance strategy really is to turn distant thirds into second places (maybe). Rarity posted:I'm very proud a forums meme I started has now spread to the point people use it without even knowing the original reference Wait you're a paradol ex re-reg!?!
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Nov 4, 2019 12:07
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Boris is going to buy that note and wave it around at every chance like the 'no more money' treasury note
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bashar al assad has a better take on donald trump than anybody in uk politics or media
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Rarity posted:I'm very proud a forums meme I started has now spread to the point people use it without even knowing the original reference I thought that old :arzy: came up with it? Boo when did we lose arzy as an emote
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Nov 4, 2019 12:13
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Abolish the home office and essex police https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/04/police-essex-lorry-deaths-appeal-immigration-data-respondents-home-office?CMP=share_btn_tw
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His Divine Shadow posted:
"But as I grow older and more removed it becomes harder and harder. Oh why must I take so long to complete my research into young people? It's one step forward, one foot into the grave oh my god I'm turning to dust I must finish my life's work..."
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eddie marsan having a nice meltdown last night https://twitter.com/eddiemarsan/status/1191141039639273472?s=20 https://twitter.com/eddiemarsan/status/1191145849755197440?s=20
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Nov 4, 2019 12:16
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Junior G-man posted:https://twitter.com/yasminjananjum/status/1190593585785311233?s=20
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Guavanaut posted:Will this prevent my phone being stolen by minor gangsters? pretty sure it guarantees they'll give you wedgie as a bonus
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Jose posted:eddie marsan having a nice meltdown last night he is a landlord tho iirc, probably seen the polls on the turn and started bricking it, actors are notoriously profligate with them royalty cheques and rely on rent to float them
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Borrovan posted:No industry regulator & it's not a consumer issue, they're just shitlord capitalists trying to hide behind a convoluted business structure so their workers don't sue them for flagrantly illegal conduct. Luckily hiding the information about their legal personality is itself a crime, so we're gonna shop them for that & all. Trading standards take a very dim view of not properly publishing business details too, if that applies.
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E: ^^^cheers bud, will flag it there too. These guys are straight-up remorseless thieves who think they are above the law, we're gonna drag them through the mud & then use our win to organise their workforce Yeah I heard that this morning, it was pretty  . Kept going on about how the NHS has very real problems (caused by the Tories) & needs real solutions (like Labour propose), not the kinds of spurious, bogus promises inevitably coming to nothing that (Tory) politicians make during GE campaigns. These problems can only be addressed by not talking about or acknowledging them. Literally "Tories are shitlords & therefore Labour should not highlight that Tories are shitlords".Sorted out my previous question btw, apparently it's (weirdly) the Insolvency Service that investigates crimes under the Companies Act
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Braggart posted:Socialise the entertainment industries. If you make mad bank, your mad bank helps to subsidise those who haven't made it yet, or never will. It's worth supporting people to try, because some of them might become good at it this is a live issue in sport economics - many governments want successful national representatives and want to be able to fling money at the problem but socialising the cost is difficult. Fundamentally people from a hundred $INSERT_HOME_TOWN_HEREs do not turn out to see a hundred top players from $INSERT_HOME_TOWN_HEREs, they want to see the top player from the top, singular. This is what drives the extreme returns. Conversely, governments want successful national representatives, not even more massive numbers of also-rans. And of course many of the successful will complain loudly and at length about any limitations on their outlier success. Here, The Beatles, a year after being awarded OBEs: quote:Let me tell you how it will be The Who, five years after exploding into mainstream success: quote:Away for the weekend &c. All involved fled to lower-tax jurisdictions.
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I made a thing with inspiration from Discord's Brovine
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Truly the likes of Joan Ryan and Heidi Allen are great losses to our political discourse.
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ronya posted:esp in terms of collective bargaining, bargaining for flextime at the table does come at the expense of workers who might prefer to accept fixed hours and fixed locations instead, and focus on other forms of compensation. Oh, so some of you want flexible hours and some of you want them to be fixed? You can only pick one in this negotiation. Your move, peasants 
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