Starmer's vision quest

[bobzmyunkle]

Who was cooking the dinner?

 

[Ian H]

Didn't Tom Cruise do that next to Nicole Kidman?

[for the younger folk here] Yes.

 

[AndyRM]

[for the younger folk here] Yes.

I always thought that was a bit of an urban legend?

In Days of Thunder she's sat down for most of their scenes, not sure about Far and Away, and in Eyes Wide Shut I think Kubrick used lens trickery? Although I'm sure I read they had raised walkways for him to walk along beside her but that seems like a very un-Kubrick-like thing to do.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

It's all coming together
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...evive-high-streets?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

 

[C R]

It's all coming together
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...evive-high-streets?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

That's the stuff that makes a difference, innit?

 

[multitool]

Obviously you two are too lazy to read beyond the headline and see that it is part of an attempt to cease the decline of the high street and death by shuttle shops, by reforming the business rates system.

And yes, it does make a difference. The 26 fake candy shops in one street owe the local council £9 million in unpaid rates. £9 million buys a lots of services.

Won't bring about world peace and universal property, so yeah...carry on whining.

 

[BoldonLad]

It's all coming together
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...evive-high-streets?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

13 years of decline?, a little bit more than that I think.

 

[winjim]

View: https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1739593608569762271?t=2pqnGs5jpS3v25kX-qESGw&s=19



View: https://youtu.be/_lt4O-EHNnw?si=uoaAW9E1hCIEdw8s

 

[multitool]

Reducing the appeal of buying social housing stock, and allowing rates for second homes to be tripled

 

[multitool]

Announcement on off-shoring asylum claims is purely for red wall. It won't work, and they know it won't work.

I suppose this is yet another legacy of the failure pre-2019 to counter right-wing narratives to such a degree that they are seated deeply in some constituencies.

 

[theclaud]

Obviously you two are too lazy to read beyond the headline and see that it is part of an attempt to cease the decline of the high street and death by shuttle shops, by reforming the business rates system.

And yes, it does make a difference. The 26 fake candy shops in one street owe the local council £9 million in unpaid rates. £9 million buys a lots of services.

Won't bring about world peace and universal property, so yeah...carry on whining.

View: https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1739957109784268873?t=3zrx7_0OrYENdRVHYIXf3Q&s=19

 

[multitool]

Do the betting shops owe £9 million per street in unpaid rates?

 

[theclaud]

Do the betting shops owe £9 million per street in unpaid rates?

"Per street".

I wonder if perhaps dodgy candy shops are symptom rather than a cause? We have one in our High St, natch.

 

[Ian H]

Do the betting shops owe £9 million per street in unpaid rates?

Well, no. They pay their rates on time and have loads of money left over to bribe politicians who might wish to regulate them effectively.
https://www.theguardian.com/society...t-15-times-higher-risk-of-suicide-study-finds

 

[multitool]

"Per street".

Yep.

That £9 million unpaid tax is one street, albeit Oxford Street.

I wonder if perhaps dodgy candy shops are symptom rather than a cause? We have one in our High St, natch.

A cause of what? Unpaid tax? (lol).

If you mean a symptom of high street decline, then yes. Clearly. The causes are, I would surmise, a combination of changing shopping habits, local economic hardship and a punitive taxation/rates system.