National News Cost of Living Crisis

[Essexyellows]

The evidence of the "cost of living crisis" seems peculiar around these parts.

A new Roxy Ballroom opened in town recently..... £14 a head for an hours bowling or other games suggests enough folk aren`t that short of cash to make it viable.

Leicester: Humberstone Gate | Bowling, Karaoke, Bar Games

Roxy Ball Room Humberstone Gate is the ultimate games bar in Leicester. With ten pin bowling, karaoke and all the bar games you could ever want, it's the place to be.

roxyleisure.co.uk

And axe throwing venues...... we`ve got 3 of them....... maybe the yoof need the practice, £23 per hour...

Game of Throwing | Game of Throwing Leicester | Best Axe Throwing Game in Leicester

We are an exciting new experience in the axe throwing world. Celebrate special occasions, host private events and join our leagues. Companies love bringing their clients and employees to Game of Throwing to have a great time and bond.

www.gameofthrowing.co.uk

Surely if its that bad for so many people???

 

[SteMerritt]

The evidence of the "cost of living crisis" seems peculiar around these parts.

A new Roxy Ballroom opened in town recently..... £14 a head for an hours bowling or other games suggests enough folk aren`t that short of cash to make it viable.

Leicester: Humberstone Gate | Bowling, Karaoke, Bar Games

Roxy Ball Room Humberstone Gate is the ultimate games bar in Leicester. With ten pin bowling, karaoke and all the bar games you could ever want, it's the place to be.

roxyleisure.co.uk

And axe throwing venues...... we`ve got 3 of them....... maybe the yoof need the practice, £23 per hour...

Game of Throwing | Game of Throwing Leicester | Best Axe Throwing Game in Leicester

We are an exciting new experience in the axe throwing world. Celebrate special occasions, host private events and join our leagues. Companies love bringing their clients and employees to Game of Throwing to have a great time and bond.

www.gameofthrowing.co.uk

Surely if its that bad for so many people???

...and here we go again. "some people can afford to go out occasionally, so that proves there is no cost of living crisis at all"

 

[Coffin dodger]

The evidence of the "cost of living crisis" seems peculiar around these parts.

A new Roxy Ballroom opened in town recently..... £14 a head for an hours bowling or other games suggests enough folk aren`t that short of cash to make it viable.

Leicester: Humberstone Gate | Bowling, Karaoke, Bar Games

Roxy Ball Room Humberstone Gate is the ultimate games bar in Leicester. With ten pin bowling, karaoke and all the bar games you could ever want, it's the place to be.

roxyleisure.co.uk

And axe throwing venues...... we`ve got 3 of them....... maybe the yoof need the practice, £23 per hour...

Game of Throwing | Game of Throwing Leicester | Best Axe Throwing Game in Leicester

We are an exciting new experience in the axe throwing world. Celebrate special occasions, host private events and join our leagues. Companies love bringing their clients and employees to Game of Throwing to have a great time and bond.

www.gameofthrowing.co.uk

Surely if its that bad for so many people???

Wait and see if they're all still in business this time next year.

 

[RgYellows]

Has any money ever been spent on axe throwing that wasn’t through a corporate credit card? Even the link provided says that companies love it.

“There is no cost of living crisis - companies have plenty of money to spend!”

You are an odd fellow @Essexyellows

 

[MC Yellow]

Wait and see if they're all still in business this time next year.

Will that apply to a lot of football clubs too, I wonder?

 

[Marked Ox]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1681782112649609218

Daily Express in not understanding inflation shocker....


Says something when the Sunday Sport is taking the pee.

 

[MC Yellow]

Treasury boss Tom Scholar received £335k payout after sacking https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66257579

Something else to boil your p155.

 

[Marked Ox]

Treasury boss Tom Scholar received £335k payout after sacking https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66257579

Something else to boil your p155.

Thanks to Truss and Kwarteng for wanting him gone.

 

[OUFCGav]

Thanks to Truss and Kwarteng for wanting him gone.

They got £16k each payout when they ceased their positions.

 

[Essexyellows]

...and here we go again. "some people can afford to go out occasionally, so that proves there is no cost of living crisis at all"

New businesses open employing people....... boosts the economy that some suggest is dying on its a**e.

Must be more than "some" to cover the overheads & make a profit.

Even the local Lane 7 bowling alley has had a refurb.....

Lots of building work going on both domestic & commercial.

Maybe that levelling up lark is working and you Southern folk are feeling more pain than up here?

 

[SteMerritt]

New businesses open employing people....... boosts the economy that some suggest is dying on its a**e.

Must be more than "some" to cover the overheads & make a profit.

Even the local Lane 7 bowling alley has had a refurb.....

Lots of building work going on both domestic & commercial.

Maybe that levelling up lark is working and you Southern folk are feeling more pain than up here?

No empty boarded up units in Leicester then I presume...

 

[Essexyellows]

CNo empty boarded up units in Leicester then I presume...

Plenty of them........ the City centre is becoming a doughnut, lots of stuff going on around it and the middle becoming a void inhabited by beggars, various drunks, junkies and dossers. Decent people go to St Martins IF they go into town but Fosse Park is where most go for physical shopping.

Student flats seem to be the big boom and hotels....... one next to Tigers


Novotel opposite Highcross....

 

[QR]

It's good to know it's the rain that's stopping people spending money they no longer have due to their mortgage repayments/rent payments going through the roof. How out of touch are these people?!!!


BBC News - Retailers are ramping up deals to get shoppers spending

Shops offering discounts to tempt hard-hit customers

Wet weather stopped shoppers splashing out in July prompting shops to ramp up promotions.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Sheik djibouti]

It's good to know it's the rain that's stopping people spending money they no longer have due to their mortgage repayments/rent payments going through the roof. How out of touch are these people?!!!


BBC News - Retailers are ramping up deals to get shoppers spending

Shops offering discounts to tempt hard-hit customers

Wet weather stopped shoppers splashing out in July prompting shops to ramp up promotions.

www.bbc.co.uk

And what is more disturbing is that by encouraging people to go out and spend (to stimulate growth and keep inflation higher for longer, which is surely not what the government want), said people can no longer afford to spend but many still will spend on easy to obtain credit and simply load themselves up with increasing amounts of debt.

 

[QR]

Bizarre that now even The Torygraph is deriding the crap governance of the past 13 years that it's saying under 50s should emigrate!!!!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1692138386016866435

 

[LowerSouth]

Here hoping .
We can then close this subject

 

[RyanioBirdio]

Bizarre the now even The Torygraph it's deriding the crap governance of the past 13 years that it's saying under 50s should emigrate!!!!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1692138386016866435

Easy peasy. Our passport gives us free access to live and work in twenty s-

Ah.

 

[Sheik djibouti]

Easy peasy. Our passport gives us free access to live and work in twenty s-

Ah.

For goodness sake, broaden your horizons Ryan!

There are over 170 other countries in the world you know!

I hear Rwanda might tick many of the boxes....