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Statement from the City of London Corporation which is closing them down: > Chris Hayward, policy chairman of the City of London Corporation, said the > decisi
by hnbear 2y ago
Statement from the City of London Corporation which is closing them down:
> Chris Hayward, policy chairman of the City of London Corporation, said the
> decision represented a "positive new chapter" for the markets as it "empowers
> traders to build a sustainable future in premises that align with their
> long-term business goals".
This is a great statement. Like firing people to free them up to find jobs that better align with their desire for employment.
- hardlianotion 2y agoWho doesn’t love corporate bullshit?
- smartbit 2y agoI love the journalist who puts these quotes at the end of the article. Great journalism.
- sosborn 2y agoJournalists take glee in letting the fools expose themselves.
- randomcarbloke 2y agothe ruling comes from up-on-high the mayor of London who does have some oversight over the city of london, and the transit of traders that utilise the market. Gotta hit those eco numbers.
- jayelbe 2y agoThe Mayor of London doesn't have any power over the City of London Corporation. They are completely separate authorities. The Corporation is essentially a unitary/borough-tier local authority, overseeing the "square mile" centre of the city, and has a council of elected councilmen. It provides housing, education, social services, street cleaning, markets etc for a small area of central London, and has existed since time immemorial. The Mayor's remit, which has only existed since the year 2000, covers the whole 600-square mile area of Greater London, and provides strategic services like transport, strategic planning, fire and rescue, and the metropolitan police. The Mayor of London wouldn't have had any involvement in this at all.
- wbl 2y agoNot to be confused with the Lord Mayor of London.
- dghf 2y agoFun fact, the City of London is the last local authority in the UK where businesses as well residents get to vote. Businesses can appoint one voter for every five employees up to 50, and then one per 50 employees after that.
- rvense 2y agoDo you know how that adds up, what the ratio of business votes to residential votes is? I imagine many more people work in the city than live there.
- blibble 2y agothere are more business votes, but practically very few people actually use their business vote as a business voter I went to my ward's annual meeting (wardmote), they were surprised to see a non-resident there nearly the entire thing was about issues residents care about (late noise, cycle paths, petty crime, etc) that and their amazing new plans for billingsgate/smithfield the other are a couple of other things to remember about City ward lists: 1. employers have no involvement other than picking their voters -- it's up to the individuals 2. due to the allocation rules: micro-businesses have most of the votes, so small food vendors have significantly more votes than all the large businesses
- roughly 2y agoChrist, yeah - I came here to post the same quote. What kind of horrific shit does one need to go through in life to become capable of uttering that kind of horseshit with a straight face?
- n4r9 2y agoWall Street eat your heart out; London has a proud and lengthy history of producing corporate psychopaths.
- hermitcrab 2y agoI imagine the people behind this furiously knocking one off while watching the "Greed is good" bit from Wallstreet on loop.
- acadapter 2y agoThe things people say in the era where comment fields have been removed from news websites (in the name of "avoiding misinformation")...
- vegetablepotpie 2y agoI’m not sure the comment fields are considered by media organizations or public figures… like, at all. I remember talking to a journalist about a series they were working on, they said the feedback they’ve gotten has been overwhelmingly positive and no one had anything bad to say about it. The comments on their articles were absolutely negative and vitriolic. I don’t think anyone with a shred of influence or responsibility in western society reads them.
- asveikau 2y agoTo be fair, a lot of comment sections are garbage, and they can be trolled and brigaded.
- hyeonwho4 2y agoFor an article like this, the negative comments would be aimed at the people in the article, not the journalist. So the article can be a great (muckraking) article, and the comments might also be vitriolic, and everything is good if the rage is well-aimed.
- lpribis 2y agoAfter translation via https://www.bullshitremover.com/ https://www.bullshitremover.com/: > "Positive new chapter" = "We're closing this place down". > "Empower traders" = "Kick them out". > "Sustainable future" = "Nowhere to go". > "Financial support and guidance" = "Good luck, you're on your own". > "Unlock the huge potential" = "We'll figure something out, maybe".
- BehindBlueEyes 2y agono no > "Unlock the huge potential" = "We have big money with big self serving plans coming in." tldr from bsremover too: Smithfield: Big meat market, been there since 1860s. Billingsgate: Huge fish market, been there since 1327, now moving to make way for homes. So a real state take over, pretty much?
- surfingdino 2y agoYes. Canary Wharf is being transformed from a purely financial district into a mixed business-residential district. They want to move noisy and smelly businesses away from the offices and apartments.
- bobthepanda 2y agoSmithfield Market and the City of London are nowhere near Canary Wharf
- seanhunter 2y ago
- bradleyjg 2y agoIf I’m reading the article correctly they need parliament’s permission (“private bill”). Write your MP.
- chris_wot 2y agoI came here to specifically comment on this statement. I've never heard some much spin in one statement.
- tomcam 2y agoWe had to destroy the village to save it https://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2015/02/it-became-necessary-to-destroy-the-town-to-save-it/ https://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2015/02/it-became-necessary-...
- Der_Einzige 2y agoThe reality is that almost no one makes any good money in the food industry. For a lot of people in that industry, if they tried to find jobs that better aligned with their skills (except in food), they'd likely be better off. A lot of people take jobs in terrible places and get complacent, maybe far too complacent. A healthy economy is one where money, people, skills, and intellectual property has high velocity, meaning people quickly reorient their productive capacity to where it's most useful. Well, this would all be true if the UK wasn't going through a lost generation economically. Serves them right for Brexit!
- mulmen 2y ago> A healthy economy is one where money, people, skills, and intellectual property has high velocity, meaning people quickly reorient their productive capacity to where it's most useful. Everyone is an interchangeable cog! > Serves them right for Brexit! Brexit wasn’t a unanimous vote. There are people suffering under the Brexit decision that couldn’t vote at the time.
- Der_Einzige 2y agoOur horror to the capitalist economic calculus of this world does absolutly nothing to make the world less ruthlessly capitalistic. In fact, we've seen that all attempts to overthrow capitalism (i.e. communism or SJW liberal wokism) have done nothing but entrench and strengthen capitalism and indeed, strengthen its uniquely worst parts of it. You should look into Mark Fischer as an example of someone who tried to see just how evil it is in its full glory. Look at what happened to him afterwards. That's what happens when you think about it too much. Unironically, swim with the fish or you'll get eaten by the sharks.
- chris_wot 2y agoAnd a lot of them are suffering who definitely could have voted, but decided not to.
- Fnoord 2y agoAnd a lot were straight out manipulated, including by foreign agents (Russia).
- thaumasiotes 2y agohttps://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20171207.shtml https://chainsawsuit.krisstraub.com/20171207.shtml