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Caddington golf club
Posted by Ja on 15/9/2024, 20:58:37
Another golf club gone , lots seem to be disappearing
Can't be bothered to read all the posts below so this maybe an iceberg
Its has been bought by the owners of Chalgrave(Toddington) who's initial plan is to close it .... I guess to push the clientele over to Toddington, the previous owners of Caddington had other business interests and just ran the golf course as a side line not their main business....or at least so I was told
Some part of that statements is true. Strange that golf company buys another golf course , far better than the other one , then let the company that previously owned it bump thousands of tons of muck on top of it.
Will have a few quid with you that in the next few months lorry loads of muck will be dumped in there at £350 a pop…. Possibly even some from Power Court…
Wage inflation way behind what it costs to run and maintain.
People expect fees to remain low but the reality is very different as clubs are going to the wall. But if their members aren’t getting paid enough what gives?
The Right complain about Train Drivers and NHS staff getting pay rises that are well overdue.
Maybe if they had been paid correctly sooner they could have afforded to continue to play golf and these clubs would be surviving.
Plenty of other examples.
And maybe if Mr Celebrity Plumber had paid more tax on his wealth then those pay rises could have happened years ago and clubs would be surviving.
The likes of the plumber are taking the money out of the country as quick as they can. Who can blame them? 2 tier Kier is going to royally shaft any hard working self made man. For you to make an issue and blame the 'right' for the closure of golf clubs is absolutely mental, even for you🤣🤣🤣
Actually you have illustrated an issue quite well here. the "oh but". Both parties guilty. And a default first defence.
Fore example -"no money left" in 2010 note - "22 billion black hole" 2024
Both by parties willing to govern. Both knew what they were getting into. Both somewhat generous with manifesto pledges.
Then it comes to point scoring on past posts. Given we are a long way off the next election, the main thing now is the CURRENT actions. Which are currently starmer proving he isnt the centrist person he claimed, and not giving a fuck about pissing off the electorate as he has a huge majority (with 20 of the electorate) as by the time the next one comes around the tories wil stil be in disarray and he can hope its forgotten about. Welcome to British politics. On the plus side we arent america. And we tend to pick what we think is the least worse option at the time not hero worship the optgions we have. few exceptions. mainly under multi names in carlsisle
Golf was massive in the 90's thanks to Faldo, Seve, Langer, Woosnam, Norman, Lyle and many others. Characters, bit like in Tennis, they are all robots now.
Sure, LIV is different and applies to a very small number of players. Of the players mentioned above, only Norman would have defected to an entity like LiV.
I’m pretty sure the vast majority of tour pros’ earnings are performance related and my point is that they win this money rather than being “paid”.
That’s true…I hired a young chap once I had been on the tour ( the one below the European tour) and in his best year won $100k . He had to pay all his travel , hotels , caddies etc so only just broke even.
It is that’s right…he won a couple of times in Asia but whilst he enjoyed golf he just couldn’t make a living ,the other years he won much smaller amounts and in the end had to get another job.
Even by your pitiful standards suggesting a golf club has gone bust because a nurse/doctor or train driver couldn`t afford to pay there is quite frankly pitiful.
Maybe they are going bust as pensioners cant afford to heat their house after the winter fuel payment was scrapped, and as such they can`t afford gold club fees....sounds extreme? sounds far fetched? Sounds unrelated? Sound familiar? (Pensioners have more time to play golf of course...but I`m not for a minute suggesting a gold club closing is because of that because i`m not that fucking ridiculous)
So you don’t think negative wage inflation has anything to do with people being priced out of golf clubs who are putting up their costs due to Brexit and the Tory caused cost of living crisis?
Dion i dare so is doing fine in non league. Not quite a championship club with aspirations though.
Wage delflation....it affects more than public sector workers. So you specifically singling out train drivers for golf clubs going bust is odd. Had you said wages in general without going for the 2 sets of people the government has give rises to while taking money off the pensioners and probably taking money off anyone non public sector next month.
And you know full well that the inevitable clobbering on taxation or stealth taxation next month will have the requisite 5 mentions every interview of "22 billion black hole"
I used those examples merely because they have been used as examples of Labour “rewarding” union pressure. Clearly the Tories ideologically couldn’t do the same.
Why?
Why would the Tories not reward Doctors, when they had ample opportunity to? You know the people who save your life and work 12 hours shifts 24-7/365.
But they found money to fund numerous bonkers schemes like Rwanda and pay their mates for dodgy PPE.
So perhaps if they had sorted wage inflation sooner across the public sector then maybe people would feel better off.
Dion is in a good place, D&R fans love him and he is flying. But it would be ironic if this continues that in January we could end up getting offers for him. Masterstroke by whoever it was to give him a three year extension!
Ok you have now focused on doctors (really you should have mentioned nurses as well as they are lower paid and if its anything like my local practice do the face to face stuff while the doctor is this "consultant in the sky" that you will never see. And dropped the train drivers bit. Progress.
Trade Unions pay subs. These get donated to the labour party. Who suddenly finds pay rises for trade unions while moaning about a 22 billion black hole and cutting pensioners ability to heat (perspective on that...its not gradual means tested..its do you get less or more than 11k a year..no common sense in that)
And wage inflation across the pubic sector? What about the private sector. I`ll give you examples of that. I had to take a paycut during covid. I dont know if public sector workers did. In my job now if I run out of work I take someone elses. For no extra money. Birmingham city council (bankrupt) had a policy where if people finished their work they could go home early, even if others had backlogs. Now where does public sector funding come from? taxation. Does that need private sector? well yes..if you are gaining your public sector income from the pubic sector alone then it cannot possibly work! And you are banging on about public sector train drivers (who are above average wage anyway) and golf clubs...
But in reality regardless of the sectors, wage growth has not been able to track the costs of living. Made worse by 14 years of austerity, rewarding Tory mates and not taxing the super rich enough.
So when it comes to “luxuries” something has to give and at the same time golf clubs need to pay people so it’s a double whammy.
Maybe if Mr Pimlico Plumber had taken less profit and paid his plumbers more they could have joined the golf club.
A small part of those subs sometimes is sent to the Labour Party; not all unions donate to it. The subs go to paying the officials, running the organisation and welfare payments.
Any offer is likely to be less than we have spent on his wages during the length of his contract even after allowing for any contribution towards them by the clubs that he has been loaned to.
I don't expect any club to offer much for a player in the last six months of his contract.
I hope that he does well but suggesting that it is going to be profitable for us seems to be your way of justifying your posts from a few years ago.
That applies to any job and any leisure activity. It was just extremely odd to link that to train drivers and NHS workers (no problem with the latter at all btw) and golf courses.
Even odder he went specifically for the train drivers (who are quite well paid anyway) rather than rail workers in general..some of which are not
Yes the specifics were a bit weird - although currently news relevant which is presumably why he used them - but I agree it does apply to any activity and job combination.
The only time I've attempted golf I took a right wedge out of a lawn in the back garden of a vicarage in Derbyshire which overlooked fields. I wasn't flavour of the month afterwards!
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