Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

[ricky2tricky4city]

Plenty of zombie companies everywhere. 3 local pubs closed recently. One of them the building has been demolished already to make way for housing only for the council to refuse permission for the development (proposed 100 houses) as local road infrastructure and school places couldn't support it.

I think in the grand scheme of 'things' EVERYTHING is changing....and on multiple levels we are not dealing with it well.

 

[Grays_1890]

I think in the grand scheme of 'things' EVERYTHING is changing....and on multiple levels we are not dealing with it well.

Exactly this, the worlds changing, people don't drink as much so the Pub culture has changed, thats as much to do as anything about that landscape moving on, some bars/restaurants are doing alot better than others at moving with the times, I see it alot on my work travels about who has done well in reinventing the wheel to go with trends. The worlds a smaller place, you take illegal immigration out the argument and the world is just much more "borderless" than its ever been, I have used that to my advantage in the last 10/15 years. The cultural landscape is shifting almost daily.

Like you say, Everything is changing and from government to public life, no one is handling it very well......and social media plays a massive part into that.

 

[Silly McSilly Face]

Exactly this, the worlds changing, people don't drink as much so the Pub culture has changed, thats as much to do as anything about that landscape moving on, some bars/restaurants are doing alot better than others at moving with the times, I see it alot on my work travels about who has done well in reinventing the wheel to go with trends. The worlds a smaller place, you take illegal immigration out the argument and the world is just much more "borderless" than its ever been, I have used that to my advantage in the last 10/15 years. The cultural landscape is shifting almost daily.

Like you say, Everything is changing and from government to public life, no one is handling it very well......and social media plays a massive part into that.

Pubs have mostly been killed by the twin facts that you dont need to physically meet your friends and family to communicate with them anymore and that you can get 12 bottles of lager from Tesco for a tenner. The pubs that adapted have it where they put on events like live music and do good food.

Illegal immigration is a psychological issue rather than a really significant one. Population growth is the biggest issue and in terms of migration it is almost entirely driven by legal migration.

Almost all of our structures were repurposed under Tony Blair to rely on it. For example we have the bizarre twin problem that the NHS is almost entirely reliant on foreign doctors while the BMA are also complaining there aren't enough training places for the numbers of British medical graduates. Thats because the system is geared towards the hire of ready made foreign imports rather than the (more time consuming and costly) development of home grown talent. As far as NHS resourcing is concerned anyway it is a big issue.

 

[Grays_1890]

Pubs have mostly been killed by the twin facts that you dont need to physically meet your friends and family to communicate with them anymore and that you can get 12 bottles of lager from Tesco for a tenner. The pubs that adapted have it where they put on events like live music and do good food.

The days of being just somewhere people go with stalls and rely on chit chat are gone, people want me, people don't want the spit and sawdust as much. Its like anything for me, you don't adapt, you die, you work to keep only your old guard of customers happy, they die off and you are left with an empty expensive vessel.

I did a small 3 month project for a golf club and for me they are a HUGE indicator on human behaviour and the same applied there, the old guard controlled the evolvement of the golf club, the golf club didn't evolve, the membership was too old, over a 3 year period loads died off and then they had financial issues.

 

[SpiderSpurs]

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Foreign criminals to face immediate deportation

Foreign criminals will for the first time face immediate deportation after sentencing as the Government strengthens border security through the Plan for Change.

www.gov.uk

 

[glasgowspur]

The days of being just somewhere people go with stalls and rely on chit chat are gone, people want me, people don't want the spit and sawdust as much. Its like anything for me, you don't adapt, you die, you work to keep only your old guard of customers happy, they die off and you are left with an empty expensive vessel.

I did a small 3 month project for a golf club and for me they are a HUGE indicator on human behaviour and the same applied there, the old guard controlled the evolvement of the golf club, the golf club didn't evolve, the membership was too old, over a 3 year period loads died off and then they had financial issues.

As a long, long time golf club member I can tell you that it is a problem that few golf clubs have been able to crack.
They want juniors, even though they bring very little financial benefits, and tout the line of "these are the future of the club", but actually they reach 16-17 and abandon golf for beer and sex and if you're lucky come back in their mid 30s.
When you do attract a lot of juniors they over run the club during the school holidays as the parents drop them off on the way to work and collect them on the way home.
The adult members get sick of it and move somewhere else.
Golf is having a post covid boom, it won't last, this is the third boom I've experienced, six years ago my club couldn't give memberships away, now you can't get a tee time. I'm leaving next year for somewhere else, and I'll not be the only one.
When all the newbies get fed up or it becomes too expensive, and it's very expensive just now, a lot of clubs are going to suffer.
They've chased away their lifeblood by chasing money, never learn.