Seems as if the hidden recession is still amongst us, empty shops and car parks, little traffic after 6.00pm,few riding bikes unless the sun comes out,no incoming sales calls, seems like uk plc has gone into shutdown for the last few weeks.
And so many miserable faces out walking an on the canals lately.

It’s just lucky you’re here to cheer us all up then, eh?

The retail parks round here were chaos on Easter Monday. It looked like everyone had gone shopping.

Surely it’s the fault of the government?

Go on, you know you want to…….

We had no empty shops in our village at Christmas , this year we have lost 2 shops and a third will go in the summer.
No doubt bloody charity shops will move in.

We had no empty shops in our village at Christmas , this year we have lost 2 shops and a third will go in the summer.
No doubt bloody charity shops will move in

Probably because customers couldnt afford to use them, and landlords love charity shops, guaranteed income, and insurance paid and no void property buisness rates to pay.

People are still on Easter Hols….

CBI confidence is as high as 1973 – the year the economy went south

Of those firms questioned by the employers’ organisation, 41% said they were more optimistic than they were three months ago, while 8% said they were feeling gloomier. The balance of +33 points was the highest since 1973.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2014/apr/23/cbi-confidence-high-1973-bust

Well IT recruitment seems to have picked up significantly…

Madame is on holiday in the UK at present. Her credit card returns suggest she is doing her best to revive your economy. 😐

Shhhhhh… Don’t say that the emperor has got nothing on!

The shops in Banbury were empty on Bank Holiday Monday. Place was like a wet week day….Oh wait, hang on.

The shops in Banbury were empty on Bank Holiday Monday. Place was like a wet week day….Oh wait, hang on.

Maybe they woke up and smelt the coffee. Not that you get a choice in Banbury.

Yeah but the property market is going through the roof, that’s gotta be good, it’s not like they’ll ever crash or anything ….

I’m not sure how much is readjustment to online shopping even posh Chiswick high street has a fair few empty shops that have been vacant for a while and a big ex blockbuster

We were all down the park, in the sunshine. There was a 10+min queue for the ice cream van and a 10 min queue for the bouncy castle taking 8 kids at a time.

Never seen the park so busy, it was ace. There were even some English parents there! Normally when we go to the park its just oir fellow Europeans playing with their kids after school.

75% of our MPs are btl mortgage holders they invented a whole new class of fraud by flipping houses to screw over the taxpayer

These muppets will never break the cycle

I kind if think that Gideon didn’t plan to go for the bubble recovery
but when after a couple of years it became apparent that Tory dogma of slash public spending and tax breaks for the wealthy didn’t actually do shit to help the economy it was back to the same old et voila here comes help to buy

kimbers – Chiswick high Road has empty shops because there’s impending property development proposals going through the planning process.
Apart from the large numbers of food outlets and mobile phone shops, Chiswick High Road is pretty buoyant helped in no small amount by the adjacent Chisiwck business Park and the large numbers of people who work in the City who live nearby.

He meant to post that on the house bubble thread….

That London was heaving Thursday night, Friday to Monday everywhere locally was busy. Tuesday I had to venture up that London again & the West End was rammed with the usual ridiculous levels of frenzied shopping going on.

They’ve gone on Holiday. 🙄