tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post6127430966225017928..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Go On Then, Just One More GiggleDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-89420886222393192462011-10-05T21:48:34.573+01:002011-10-05T21:48:34.573+01:00Dick, thank you. This graph with accompanying com...Dick, thank you. This graph with accompanying commentary is a quick 'n perfect response to the parroted posts about the ban not hurting pub biz.<br /><br />Joseph, very true, and while I don't have the specific URL handy at the moment, if you visit Chris Snowdon's <br /><br />http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/<br /><br />you'll find an entry there from six months or a year ago where he showed the differential time impact of the different smoking bans on different countries regardless of "the economy."<br /><br />- MJMMichael J. McFaddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12181949578184965482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-23722698884730924472011-10-05T09:36:03.873+01:002011-10-05T09:36:03.873+01:00The Bingo halls point in there is complete nonsens...The Bingo halls point in there is complete nonsense. Rank closed 10% of their halls in Scotland after the smoking ban came in, but guess what, none in England at the same time.<br /><br />It doesn't matter where, or when you look. Ireland saw the number of licensses drop in the middle of the boom. The bars in New Jersey saw increased trade from people driving over from New York after New York banned it. The pubs worst hit are those that don't have much food trade and in more working-class areas with higher levels of smokers. I've seen no data that supports the opposite hypothesis, that it had no effect.<br /><br />We should call these people what they are: deniers.Tim Almondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369256383976094670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-40938767381383211792011-10-04T22:20:16.939+01:002011-10-04T22:20:16.939+01:00But even so they still do nothing to try to overtu...But even so they still do nothing to try to overturn the ban or even get a half measure implemented, Turkeys really do vote for Xmas then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-46582620487159818102011-10-04T21:12:38.383+01:002011-10-04T21:12:38.383+01:00Behind the bravado of Punch and the other pubcos w...Behind the bravado of Punch and the other pubcos was the secret deal made with the government - it was a trade-off.<br /><br />They would be granted 24-hour opening if they agreed not to protest against the later smoking ban. They fell for it.<br /><br />24-hour opening was never going to affect more than a few city-centre student-piss-pots, but they somehow imagined the 'gain' there would offset any minor losses from the smoking ban.<br /><br />In parallel, the brewers knew this was bollocks, so they upscaled their deals with the supermarkets to maintain their volumes, but through a cheaper delivery channel.<br /><br />That secret deal remains secret - no-one will yet admit to it, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The evidence is there for all to see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-34059155991489001412011-10-04T21:01:56.002+01:002011-10-04T21:01:56.002+01:00Anon @ 14:23: Not really, no. Punch have been hams...Anon @ 14:23: Not really, no. Punch have been hamstrung because the ban came along just after they had made a few ambitious business acquisitions. Perhaps they really <i>did</i> swallow tobacco control's propaganda about a new golden age for pubs post-smoking ban and it wasn't just business bravado to impress investors. Who knows?<br /><br />Anyway, along came the ban, business fell off a cliff, and they were left struggling to service the debt they had accrued to finance said acquisitions. They had a great plan to sell off a load of their less profitable pubs to counteract this but, of course, because not many people could be arsed using them since the ban (hence why they were poorly performing), the selling prices were deflated (presumably the straw that Rollo is clutching?). As a result, it's highly questionable if even selling assets will be able to clear the debt, meaning they are technically fucked, or close to being so.<br /><br />Pffft! ;)Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-29053229078730119542011-10-04T20:03:46.922+01:002011-10-04T20:03:46.922+01:00The great questions:
Does God exist?
How big is th...The great questions:<br />Does God exist?<br />How big is the universe?<br />Is there any meaning to life?<br />Why do politicians all assume we want to be told how to live our lives by academics?<br />Why do businesmen assume sucking up to politician's 'causes' will make their custom,ers happy?Ian Thorpehttp://www.greenteethmm.com/internet-sceadugengan.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-24245917736508666542011-10-04T18:55:40.989+01:002011-10-04T18:55:40.989+01:00Perfect, Dick, just perfect. :D
I'll print it...Perfect, Dick, just perfect. :D<br /><br />I'll print it out and stick it on my wall next to the Bauld report: gives me an extra target for darts practice. While smoking.<br /><br />(Her report was seriously crap, wasn't it? Every so often I take another look at it - and think: WTF?)Lysistratahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10193876192173490810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-70997827461383643782011-10-04T18:24:08.863+01:002011-10-04T18:24:08.863+01:00Splendid! Can you do charts for all the various pu...Splendid! Can you do charts for all the various pub companies, just to rub it in?<br /><br />WV: destruMark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-64509239149526098502011-10-04T18:19:35.411+01:002011-10-04T18:19:35.411+01:00One reader commented on the
Rollo (excuse me whil...One reader commented on the <br />Rollo (excuse me while I break wind<br />near the cats nose)suggestion of property devaluation.<br />Spot on Rollo,you miniscule pimp,<br />with over 10,000 venues boarded up and another 10,000 on their deathbed its hardly surprising the<br />value has collased.<br />Now we have the Neo Marxist Coalition chuddering about revitaising small businesses<br />( excuse me while I throw up on my<br />Monday Club Membership Card)<br />Just how much pathos and folly will the British people tolerate.<br />While we are falling of our stools laughing at the idiots who run the Pubcos another little snippet no<br />longer viewable on the pitifull BBC Financial Daily Liar.<br />Enterprise(Snack Bars)Inns<br /> July 1st 2007 Share 689.00<br />October 4th 2011 Share 33.25<br />My Dear Rollo and other snivellers<br />You can kid the dipsticks<br />You cant kid the markets<br /><br />All seeing 4 eyesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-66937360880132507572011-10-04T15:46:18.581+01:002011-10-04T15:46:18.581+01:00Great stuff, i will be laughing all the way to tes...Great stuff, i will be laughing all the way to tesco.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-55755553857405307212011-10-04T14:32:07.853+01:002011-10-04T14:32:07.853+01:00We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities....We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities..Caedmon's Cathttp://caedmonscat.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-49701979640279772412011-10-04T14:23:17.980+01:002011-10-04T14:23:17.980+01:00Wasn't the share price fall something to do wi...Wasn't the share price fall something to do with the crash in property prices? I remember reading a comment to that effect by a chap named Rollo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-2432821575819612422011-10-04T13:43:24.126+01:002011-10-04T13:43:24.126+01:00Dick,it's common sense that the antis know mor...Dick,it's common sense that the antis know more things for you than yourself!!!!(They would safely make a study that shows with statistical significance that they are more libertarian than you are!)<br /><br />- They know more about bar and restaurant industry than the industry itself!<br />- They know more about air filtration than the experts in air filtration themselves!<br />- They know more for the economic costs of smoking than economists themselves!<br /><br />Blimey,I want to become an anti because I am like God,I know everything for everyone!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-6232397848868115242011-10-04T13:38:21.742+01:002011-10-04T13:38:21.742+01:00But, but, it can't be! It's the recession,...But, but, it can't be! It's the recession, social change, Supermarket competition. It must be. The ONS said that 'footfall' had increased and they know coz they've got a little Elf in every entrance and exit in every Pub in the country counting 'em. Them figgers and drawin's 'as got to be wrong, innit?<br /><br />The above is taken from Hansard and is the answer from the DoH to a question put in the House.<br /><br />Wonder what dear old Francis puts it down to?Franknoreply@blogger.com