Personally I probably wouldn’t put tariffs on food supermarkets, but big box stores and the big online retailers makes some sense. The best option is probably rent control on commercial property. I distinctly remember my last workplace the landlords trying to increase the rent to something like 8k PCM from 3.5k PCM. A store who’s quiet periods got as low as 12k-15k PCM. Math doesn’t math. That town center had a lot of closed stores weirdly enough. :thonk:
I’d also do grants and low interest loans to help indie stores get started.
Yup. Doesn’t help house prices are insane too, like the 15% deposit on a 200k home is still more than I make in a year even if I work OT. (24k vs 30k deposit). That’s not getting to the horrible shared ownership schemes running these days (100k for 40% of a 2 bed apartment not too far from me).
no its only 20mm, so its perfect for 7.3/7.7 br. there is no need for it to be higher is other nations can have a radar spaa at 7.3/7.7 then why can’t britain have this, it doesn’t need to have apds
