Just can't get the staff these days...
The poor residents of Kensington & Chelsea are now finding that their milkmen, window cleaners and gardeners are adding £8 to their bills. Perhaps they could apply to Chavez for assistance?
posted by Whispering Walls at 10:56 am
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But surely milk floats running on batteries are exempt ?
And whilst gardeners may only do one garden a day, I'm not sure the same can be said for window cleaners.
Mind you, I used to have a painter that didn't even own a car or van!
Of course, the solution to the problem will be in a few years time, when Ken has arranged his policies such that house prices in London will have fallen to the point where milkmen will be able to afford to live in K&C, and abolish the need for long distance commuting. Now there's a thought...
On a related point, K&C must be the last bastion of that honourable trade - the window cleaner.. Everywhere else they seem to have been driven out of business by all the various new 'working at height' regulations.
I am all for having safety at work, but this seems to have been counter productive, as they now have no work at all ! Unless they can afford a hugely expensive 'cherry picker'.
Steve Norris wants to remove the congestion charge altogether. This has to be a mistake, surely ? He would be better promising a half-way house [say reverting to the original 'zone' with a charge of £5] then he has a chance of delivering on it. Then he has two bites of the cherry - promising to remove it for his next pitch.
'Under-promise, over-deliver'..
My heart bleeds!
Now, now Welshcakes - this isn't a very constructive approach..
Ms Whisperer manages hedges in the City of London, so this sort of extra overhead can make quite a difference.
Being Welsh myself, I thought about this little problem, and while I was having lunch yesterday saw someone on 'half-term' holiday taking their horse out for a jaunt. So it made me think that what the Whisperer needs may be a gee-gee.
She could even re-brand as the 'Horse Whisperer Hedge Management'
However, it is always important to consider the numbers with such a proposal.
Consider there are roughly only 220 working days in a year, after hols etc. so at £ 8 * 220 = £ 1,760
Assuming the horse would be working for 10 years that would be c.£ 18 k
In that 10 years I feel sure that our host would have used up two vans. Even at a modest 11 grand each on the depreciation that is :-
£ 22 k saved. Add the £ 18k and that makes a total of £ 40, 000 saved by going for a horse.
So now, all one has to is figure out how to be a horse, and just as importantly a cart, for that sum.
Shouldn't be too difficult - and it will probably travel almost as quickly as a diesel van round the congested streets of the centre of London - not that there will be any congestion, of course, because the congestion charge will solve that problem, yes sirree....
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