Comments on: I want to be a model

By: Regeneguru

Regeneguru — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:47:57 +0000

Well done Mark. We can’t hear enough about the factors involved in the decline of local pubs, some of which are also connected to the decline of the high street. Local publicans and postmasters do not automatically belong in the same category as Jeffrey Skilling, as a certain section of a certain political party believes.

With the Mayor weighing in to back small business as the cornerstone of economic recovery, there’s much to look forward to for Camberwell’s entrepreneurs from London-wide initiatives:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23691499-details/COMMENT%3A+Small+businesses+-+the+backbone+of+London/article.do?expand=true#StartComments

Local politicians, campaigners and commentators now have the perfect springboard to introduce new planning priorities to help small businesses. This will create instantaneous local employment in this ~~depression~~ recession, to cut off the development of a new sink estate and welfare culture at its roots.

By: southmark

southmark — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:43:38 +0000

Well done Mark! I only hope that as their shares tumble, they don’t hike the prices even more to appease the shareholders

By: Yak

Yak — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:22:01 +0000

Great news indeed Mark! I was guffawing into my cereal at the lame excuses of the Pub Co association (the name escapes me)on the radio yesterday. Hopefully the reference to the Competition Commission will now go ahead.

By: Genfink

Genfink — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:22:07 +0000

Mark that is great news! Will try to stop by the S&D for a celebratory San Mig sometime,
regards
GF

By: Alan Dale

Alan Dale — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:14:49 +0000

That is brilliant Mark.

You may yet liberate us from a life sentence in Wetherspoons.

By: florian

florian — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:08:09 +0000

Well done Mark. A righteous cause, which came through strongly in the coverage. Peter Luff is a very good chap.

By: J Mark Dodds

J Mark Dodds — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:27:43 +0000

WAY off topic. The Business Enterprise Committee (pubcos) 2008 published its findings today - a thick report - on the state of the relationship between pub companies and their tenants. This report, regular long standing readers of this blog may recall, was stimulated in large part by calls from The Fair Pint Campaign for a fairer contract between pub lessees and their freeholders. The campaign was conceived and set up by four people from Camberwell and a few friends in the trade I am slightly pleased to say the report is a Massive Slap on the Face for all pubcos. It found them to be abusing their power over tenants and taking too much share of the profits from pub businesses. It recommends the competition commission forthwith and much more detailed scrutiny of the pubco business model. This has enormous ramifications for the way the entire UK pub industry operates in future and has been reported in business media world wide and has stimulated a free fall in share prices of pubcos. This was UNTHINKABLE even a year ago and it is WE WOT DID IT!

By: Mumu

Mumu — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:31:18 +0000

Sad news Fisher Athletic FC have been wound up — http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/8048100.stm — although originating in Bermondsey they have in recent years been playing in the Dulwich Hamlets stadium near Sainsburys

By: Alan Dale

Alan Dale — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:48:03 +0000

My point is that punative taxation aimed at influencing our behaviour is the price of the NHS. That is unfair but there is no fair alternative..

By: Mumu

Mumu — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:25:09 +0000

Walking past the ex-Somerfield soon to be Morrisons I see that it the new Morrisons is scheduled to open on 13 June