Coronavirus

[red vtec]

They should just ignore it, with an 80 seat majority what are the others going to do? This is more about brexit as Cummings was the architect of it and the opposition remainers hate him. 

[PaulCP]

Just gives the opposition, media and that thicko Blackford something to get their teeth into for a while.
What the fcuk would they do with nothing to moan about and try to blow things up out of all proportion. It’s their only purpose in life

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

He’s bigger than Boris. He’s the President. He’ll be around for a long while yet.

[Barrykearley]

53 minutes ago, PaulCP said:

Just gives the opposition, media and that thicko Blackford something to get their teeth into for a while.
What the fcuk would they do with nothing to moan about and try to blow things up out of all proportion. It’s their only purpose in life

That twat blackford was all offended and uppity about it on the bbc this morning. Living in England - I have no interest in what that prick has to say. He’s Scotland’s Trump and they can keep him 

[esprit22]

So where did the Government get all the cash to pay 80% of wages to Britain's workforce?

[Barrykearley]

They are gonna just print it and give it away

[tom kilner]

It's called quantitative easing - at least it was last time, only last time we gave it to the bankers and they used it to pay themselves some handsome bonuses.

This time at least people might a) need the money and b) actually spend it rather than put it into an offshore trust for their kids

[red vtec]

It was actually done to stop the economy crashing. Not everyone who works in the city earns the huge wages that a few do. 

Edited May 23, 2020 by Bibs

[C8RKH]

43 minutes ago, esprit22 said:

So where did the Government get all the cash to pay 80% of wages to Britain's workforce?

Where it gets a lot of its money from. By issuing bonds and printing their own. You see they have a few printers stashed away that churn out millions of the stuff. Funny that 

[andydclements]

We are in a very strange economic time, where institutions etc actually bought bonds from the UKgovt and agreed that at a future date they'd get back less than they paid for them. That just doesn't happen in anything like normal times.

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Anyone else think lockdown actually has some things going for it? I haven’t seen the Mother-in-Law for 2 months for example.

[Sparky]

Mine lives with us.  Anyone has a foolproof method, I'm all ears.

Seriously, though, I'm loving every minute of it (except having to avoid the kids/grandkids)   The world is a nicer place, nature is regaining ground, the sky isn't full of vapour trails, the air smells nicer etc. etc. etc.  Easy for me to say as we're in an advantageous position, financially, as are all our kids.  But I appreciate it cannot continue.  I just hope it will all just slow down a little for the next few years, and people will learn to value what matters.

[SFO]

4 hours ago, pete said:

Boris has come out in support of Dominic Cummings which may be a big mistake on his behalf as he may have misjudged public opinion on this. Cummings should have resigned but Boris may in the end have to sack him ,so surely best to bite the bullet and do it now

The relentless ad nauseam saturation coverage on Cummings is another press witch hunt. Plenty of other people have done the same, they are just not as famous or as apparently disliked. 

Perhaps the press can’t find other more newsworthy items ...

[mayevora]

44 minutes ago, LotusLeftLotusRight said:

Anyone else think lockdown actually has some things going for it? 

I’ve had non stop shorts on since 23rd March and no alarm clock needed. Life is good 😁👍

[tom kilner]

8 hours ago, mayevora said:

I’ve had non stop shorts on since 23rd March 😁👍

 and you only need the shorts for essential journeys! 😂

[Sparky]

@mayevora you've had non-stop shorts on since you were an embryo.

[mayevora]

Heard a rip up a tree yesterday! 😳

Owned these longer than the wife.

RIP 

[Sparky]

Sooo many ways to answer that...

[mayevora]

Fear not - back up at the ready! 😁👍

[Chillidoggy]

2 hours ago, Sparky said:

Sooo many ways to answer that...

You’re wondering on which side he dresses?

[C8RKH]

Seems there is increasing "evidence" that COVID19 leaked out of a Wuhan laboratory that was funded and supported by the French with Barnier (then Foreign Sec) driving this. Despite warnings of poor Chinese bio security and a loss of French control (which happened as predicted) the French pushed on.

Interesting take on where it came from. I only have one source for this (British Tabloid so not reliable) so we'll have to wait and see if it is true .

[Bravo73]

22 hours ago, SFO said:

The relentless ad nauseam saturation coverage on Cummings is another press witch hunt. Plenty of other people have done the same, they are just not as famous or as apparently disliked. 

Perhaps the press can’t find other more newsworthy items ...

Most of those ‘other people’ probably didn’t have a hand in setting the rules in the first place. 

[esprit22]

On 23/05/2020 at 17:10, Barrykearley said:

They are gonna just print it and give it away

No way! Always thought that this couldn't happen as gov need to control how much £'s were in the economy,not just pint it out Willy Billy..

[Bravo73]

Where have you been for the past few recessions??!?

[Barrykearley]

7 minutes ago, esprit22 said:

No way! Always thought that this couldn't happen as gov need to control how much £'s were in the economy,not just pint it out Willy Billy..

They gotta keep printing it. Remember we are all getting richer apparently and the head count is growing. We need more money. Simples