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Yep. I get all that. However, these are unprecedented times and the government are spending incredibly to try to prevent a complete economic crash. If these payments were just for two or three months I would be in favour, whilst completely understanding the huge costs involved.
It’s required a potentially economy-crippling pandemic but I’m glad that Col and I have found something we can agree on.
Yes but any guns left? Only joking. I know we're not as thick as the average American because we actually have laws to prevent mass gun ownership. When we panic we grab for ourselves - we don't look to arm ourselves for Armageddon.
Anyone else getting pissed off with the supermarket ads on TV showing bulging ailses of goodies that bear no resemblance to reality? Also holiday ads, what planet are they living on?...
This my actual local supermarket. The only previous hoarding we experienced was once in 2007, when the Saturday kid marked up the Puligny Montrachet 1997 Cuvee at the same price as the Jacobs Creek! On a more Coronavirus note, have just come off a Danish Shipping conference call, where I will have to blame some kind of virus for my particular input at the meeting: The Big Boss of a well known shipping company that was in the news last year for making Millions out of Brexit preparations - is now crying because the Danish Govt. is only bailing them out to the tune of 104M USD. They now are pointing their strategy gun at reducing pricing frame agreements from their suppliers. I told them that it was a bit ironic that for two years of cash raining down on them, at no point did their shareholders complain at share price doubling or the over generous dividends. That I would personally contact the same suppliers (mine also) to not waste their time on such frivolous demands. I'm afraid that we will learn nothing - once again - from this "opportunity", SB (G) is right, Capitalism has us in a complete headlock. Wishing all to stay safe and well.
The ad space was probably agreed ages ago and takes time to change an ad. I’m not involved thankfully but my marketing team are working flat out to change our current adverts to something that doesn’t show people in proximity to each other.
While about 20 listed companies have cancelled or delayed dividends, many haven’t. That’s probably because the people who make the decision on level of dividend benefit hugely personally from them. EasyJet has asked the government for a bailout, but is going ahead with a £174m dividend, £60m of which goes to Stelios and his family, who have taken £650m out of the company since 2012. If it wasn’t for the fact that ordinary people work for these companies, people who need jobs and predictable incomes, you would want them to go tits up in the most spectacular and harmful way for the bastards who ‘own’ them. Take care mate, and well said on your conference call.
The sensible thing would have been to close the stock exchanges weeks ago so dealers didn’t get into such a panic. There’s always winners and losers in every crisis and it’s a good time to buy stock which, in some cases, has plummeted by 70% or more; certainly well below the underlying asset value of the enterprises in question. For those of us that are more left-leaning, you’ll be delighted to know that I predict a resurgence of the left-wing parties when this is all over. Stuff like EasyJet fuels it. As smaller businesses fold and bigger businesses shed people to protect their owners the calls to redress the balance will grow louder. Personally, I’ll join the clamour as contempt for the rich billionaire bastards grow. If these ****s were a little smarter they’d play the benevolent benefactor, dish out the love and the dosh, get the cynical PR done, safe in the knowledge that they’ll cash-in in the longer term. That’s what I’d do. **** ‘em all if they only look out for themselves.
It’s been confirmed that 100 lorries delivered medical protective gear and other supplies to 150 hospitals. They are also saying that many respirators are being made to cope with this outbreak. Yet Not one post to say well done to the government that they actually came through with what they said? People always bitching and moaning about them but when they achieve something important like this....you don’t hear a thing from the ‘political point brigade’. Well done Boris through all your mumbling and crap Latin quotes you delivered on what you said.
When I was driving home on the A3 last night, there was a huge convoy of police approaching on the opposite carriageway escorting a lorry London bound. I presume that was one of them.
No. He doesn’t get applause for dithering and finally doing something. No one knows how many lives will be lost through the failure to act appropriately from the start. No one knows how many lives will continue to be lost because people have the option to mix freely still.
It’s worrying mate that it needed a police escort. I really do expect some horrid people to take advantage of this. It won’t be long before people get burgled for supplies.
Your talking rubbish again Watford. Sadly your lefty views will make you point score as much as you can. I won’t try and explain it to you because you would accept the facts.
Try me. He’s the only PM we have so we all have no choice but hope he makes the right decisions and has the right priorities. Can you imagine how many Dianne Abbott memes we’d have been treated to if Corbyn was promoting the herd immunity bollocks only to be faced with killing a quarter of a million citizens and u-turning three days later?
Corbyn hasn’t offered anything! Tell us what Jezza says after the fact? Should we have been like Macron and France? Closing all the schools on Thursday and tell people to stay at home only to drag them out on the Sunday for an election vote then tell them the very next day the next round has be cancelled? is that what you are calling strong leadership? or in Italy, Germany and Belgium where people are told to avoid groups only for the public to ignore and now they are getting a fine. Not to mention the army being brought in? Is that what you are talking about? Or shall we take the China example? Where people are not allowed out and anyone that has complained has either disappeared, been arrested or mysteriously died from Coronavirus the next day. is that what you are talking about? Is that the way we should run our country? As all the unbiased experts have been saying all along. Boris Has been listening to the medical people all the way and as things have changed he has adapted. It’s not about political points scoring and all you Boris haters need to stop moaning about him and give him a chance.
Lives will be lost because some people are not following government instructions on social distancing, and are going down to the pub for a knees up. No doubt they'll be the ones that complain loudest when the virus spreads and kills the vulnerable
I agree. People won’t get heed the advice until they start seeing people they know die en masse. It’s no surprise that some people are any or all of dumb/ignorant/arrogant but too many just aren’t seeing the gravity of this situation and need to be forced indoors for the good of others. Advice isn’t enough sadly. We are at the point we need to be forced.
