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Tesseraction posted:In case you think I'm joking: Wait, is that normal for a council? To invest in things? I'm just realising now I haven't thought about how councils get all their money.
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Austerity has cut council funding so much that they need to gamble what little money they do have on the horses to have a hope of actually paying for services.
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Jun 7, 2023 19:22
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bessantj posted:Wait, is that normal for a council? To invest in things? I'm just realising now I haven't thought about how councils get all their money. It turned out that Woking Council just bought a bunch of 9th Ed. 40K armies. Then when the news of 10th Ed. broke, so did their budget.
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bessantj posted:Wait, is that normal for a council? To invest in things? I'm just realising now I haven't thought about how councils get all their money. I think this is what they call "running the country like a business"
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Jun 7, 2023 19:30
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Did this only come to light because the Lib Dems gained control in Woking tho? By which I mean, is the UK just a miserable pile of bankruptcies?
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Jun 7, 2023 19:38
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I don't get it, what do the lenders do, seize the town? How does a council take out private loans?
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Brendan Rodgers posted:I don't get it, what do the lenders do, seize the town? Woking? Let them have it.
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Jun 7, 2023 19:48
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Historically if the government takes out private loans and doesn't want to pay them back the solution was to kill and/or expel the people who lent them money.
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Jun 7, 2023 19:49
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I think councils were actively encouraged by the Govt to find ways to increase their own revenue. It's just that they made some very questionable decisions. Like those councils that invested heavily in shopping centres, in a decade characterised by massive increases in online shopping.
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Robin Tax: I've been visiting the same part of the park for nearly four weeks now, bringing them all you can eat live mealworms each time. This male will fly straight to my hand now, leaving the little dish for the others. I guess the dry weather also makes them very brave, as they are struggling to find enough food to feed the nests   Best depression treatment I've found so far. e: Panorama of my special place: 
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Jun 7, 2023 20:07
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Lol at the guy whose always got his own seat training the birds to poo poo all over the public benches. Real supervillain stuff.
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Jun 7, 2023 20:09
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Congrats on st francis% speedrun.
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Sanford posted:Right, who’s in? Going to destroy an absolutely inhuman quantity of frazzles in 90 minutes
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Jun 7, 2023 20:25
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kingturnip posted:I think councils were actively encouraged by the Govt to find ways to increase their own revenue. It's just that they made some very questionable decisions. Honestly it just seems like a pretty straightforward case of Tory embezzlement. Which is treated as normal and expected and any questions about family business connections get swept under the rug. quote:Racked up to finance the building and acquisition of a vast empire of commercial assets, its investments included a complex of sky-high towers – standing as the tallest buildings outside a big city in England – including a four-star Hilton hotel, public plazas, parking facilities and shops.
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Jun 7, 2023 20:27
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I can eat crisps with nothing on my nethers at home.
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Ahahahahaha https://twitter.com/Christian4BuryS/status/1666494259048898588
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bessantj posted:Wait, is that normal for a council? To invest in things? I'm just realising now I haven't thought about how councils get all their money. Yes. See several Welsh councils who have lost a packet investing in retail/ leisure schemes in the past couple of years. Sorry I can't do links my internet Three and BT have been up poo poo creek all day. I think a mast must be down somewhere.
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Jun 7, 2023 20:44
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drat, if we'd only had any indication at all prior to 2023 that gene simmons was a humongous piece of poo poo
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The threads own podcast did an episode recently on Thurrock council, that’s also gone bankrupt. Worth a listen as that was basically bad investments in property too (also corruption, but Tories gonna Tory).
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Tesseraction posted:drat, if we'd only had any indication at all prior to 2023 that gene simmons was a humongous piece of poo poo
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Drinkslinger posted:I'm more baffled by the implication that KISS are "heavy metal". He's a huge fan so he should know.
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1. Austerity 2. Suggest councils invest in property 3. New-Game-Plus Austerity: Slough posted:As a consequence, the council is to impose “rigorous spend control measures” that are likely to mean significant job losses, cuts to services, and the sale of buildings and land, to ensure it can “live within its means” in the long term. Croyden posted:Croydon’s Tory elected mayor, Jason Perry, warned “tough decisions” were needed to guarantee the council’s future. It needed to “do and spend less, with significant spending reductions”, he said. Thurrock posted:Thurrock has a financial deficit this year of £470m, a long-term structural shortfall of £184m and debts of £1.3bn. As a consequence, the inspectors said the council was “equipped to do little more than a minimum level of [service] provision for the foreseeable future, if indeed they can continue [to provide services] at all”. Woking posted:Ann-Marie Barker, the council’s Liberal Democrat leader, whose party took over from the former Tory administration after it was voted out in local elections last year, said there was a danger that services could be cut as a consequence. “We’re going to have to look at those and provide the services in a very different way in future. Inevitably it’s not going to be such a good service as it was in the past,” she told the Guardian.
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Gonzo McFee posted:I like the orks dakka dakka I'm a mushroom  Being an ork would be such a nice existence, much better than being, say, a Tory
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Drinkslinger posted:I'm more baffled by the implication that KISS are "heavy metal". maybe he confused them with detroit metal city
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I just realised that I've been confusing Kiss with Aerosmith for many years, so I couldn't name a single one of Kiss's songs.
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Payndz posted:I just realised that I've been confusing Kiss with Aerosmith for many years, so I couldn't name a single one of Kiss's songs. That's reasonable, they're shite
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Knights in Starmer's Service
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Payndz posted:I just realised that I've been confusing Kiss with Aerosmith for many years, so I couldn't name a single one of Kiss's songs. I'm also unfamiliar with experiencing kiss
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Payndz posted:I just realised that I've been confusing Kiss with Aerosmith for many years, so I couldn't name a single one of Kiss's songs. Not even the classic I Will Never Go To School? I think on balance I'd rather listen to Kiss over Aerosmith but they are both pretty lousy
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kingturnip posted:I think councils were actively encouraged by the Govt to find ways to increase their own revenue. It's just that they made some very questionable decisions. Same. Stockport council owns the land of a shopping centre and has been furiously attempting to recoup their investment by taking every development grant going to develop nearby disused buildings into blocks of flats and a handful of amenities. Bleak that there's no budget for maintaining amenities, but you can get a property developer to pay for a replacement if they also get to put up a block of flats (development starts on the block of flats first, better hope the rest of it also gets finished one day).
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Can’t get buried in an official Aerosmith coffin whereas Kiss had a whole range of merchandise for dead people, giving them a much broader appeal.
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Even for a Glam Rock band KISS' music is pretty shite
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The Question IRL posted:It turned out that Woking Council just bought a bunch of 9th Ed. 40K armies. Then when the news of 10th Ed. broke, so did their budget. A council could do worse than investing in GW limited edition and launch boxes. In fact it probably has a better return than nearly any investment you can make. Buy Leviathan for £120 and sell contents separately for £200. 66% ROI within a week. Literally zero risk as well unless the local hams find out and burn the councillors for being scalpers.
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If KISS are so great where's their mid-90s light gun game 
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Ms Adequate posted:If KISS are so great where's their mid-90s light gun game They had an FPS instead https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss:_Psycho_Circus:_The_Nightmare_Child
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God gave Bowler Hats and Marching to you! Gave Bowler Hats and Marching to you, March down the road of every town.
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3/2 Especially as now people are pointing out that those views coincide exactly with my own.
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Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Knights! (Of the realm)
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let them fight dot gif
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