Yesterday's answers
On to the rest, a bit of not writing writing and some local photos.
I do love the way the English misunderstand French like, Elephant
and Castle, for enfant de casteele.
Today I discovered rotten row, form the French rue de roi, meaning,
king’s road. This is in Hyde Park. derived from the Saxon word hide, the land
supports a family and dependents.
The next bit is part of my ongoing experiment with voice
recognition and Google’s speech to text, (the microphone on the google android keyboard).
Don’t expect too much if you read the next bit.
I have to say I'm a bit concerned about Thanet District
council's approach to handing out the small business relief Grant.
In order to qualify any small business, unless they had more
than one business building, had to have had full small business rates relief
since about 2015. What this means is that they wouldn't have had a standing
order or direct debit to pay the council for about 5 years. Now once the
council knew that it was going to distribute these £10,000 grants, it went down
the road of publicising that businesses shouldn't contact the council and the
council would automatically pay the money into a business bank account.
My assumption was this meant that over the period of the
previous five years the council had kept all business bank account details and
would use them automatically. Added to this in our case and because our flat is
rented to us from the business going back to the dim and distant past we use
the business bank account for the business direct debit to pay the council tax
the council already had my business bank account details.
What seems to have happened is during the period between
when the council knew that they were going to describe distribute the grants
and when they actually started doing this, in the period when they told
businesses not to apply is the council must have known that they had very few
business bank account details and while they should have immediately set up the
online forms so the businesses could securely supply the council with their
business bank account details so that when the council got the money they could
pass it on to the business but it is this isn't what happened.
Now if you're not in business this may not seem terribly
important but during this period quarter day passed. where most business rent
would be due, having no income makes it difficult to pay the rent and at the
very least for most businesses not doing this would have meant a worse
relationship with their landlords and the knock on effect and landlords may
have meant difficulties for the landlord's businesses to. I'm not quite sure
what the council's ideas were with this and it is possible that this only really
applied to businesses in Ramsgate. We still haven't received our Grant and
personally this really doesn't make much difference to us, there are two
factors here one is that book shop doesn't make a profit it makes part of our
living and for the last 37 years we’ve just topped it up a bit, another is
obviously have to have some reserve of money in the bank, money so that if
someone comes along to me and they have a good book collection worth £500 or
even £10,000 I can buy it Particularly important at the moment as there don't
seem to be any other second hand bookshops buying large book collections,
partly because there aren't many left, partly because they haven't got the
space to store the collections. Mainly though I think because for the last few
years their stock has been priced more expensively than you could source the
same books for on the internet including the cost of postage.
This meeting some nice people use new and second-hand book
shops for browsing deciding which
My concern, at the moment, and I think it's a valid concern,
is that the way the council are distributing the grants may mean that several
businesses that wouldn't have gone bankrupt do go bankrupt. I think this is
particularly significant in terms of small independent retailers in the town
centres that have had to close due to coronavirus. The truth is that the day
the retailer closes, the bills keep coming for about 2 months with rent bill
and insurance bill and probably telephone bill continuing indefinitely. To
expand on that let us stay that you have a shop selling China. So you buy,
during January £5,000 worth of China with the hope that during February march
and April you will sell the majority of it for £10,000 having taken the VAT
element out of this you should make about £4,000 which will go to pan your bills
and most importantly repaying the initial £5,000. Now the £5,000 would normally
have to be paid for stock supplied in January by the end of February, a tricky
business all round. A lot of suppliers now would be issuing county court summonses
to the retailers who hasn't paid their bills and as for the landlord's that
didn't get their rent on quarter day, at the end of march they are now getting
to the position where the lease is in breach of their tenancy agreement. I don’t think commercial landlords are in a
position to evict at the moment .I'm not really sure about the legislation that
the government has recently put in place to protect tenants but firstly I doubt
that it protects commercial tenants very well and secondly in a position where
the landlord wants to get the building back for one reason or another it puts
them in a very strong position.
next some photos and a reminder that if you came here to escape there will pandemic stats at the end
NOTE:
1. This is daily deaths per ten million residents, counting from the day of first reported death.
2. The dotted line shows the three-day moving average.
3. The chart has been condensed, for clarity, by removing the first 11 days.
3. These figures allow direct comparison between different countries regardless of the size of the country.
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