In Edinburgh today, and it's very quiet. A few people up walking on Calton Hill behind my site, and a few joggers around, but the roads have hardly any traffic. I've generally found most areas around the Central Belt that I've been to over the last couple of weeks have been pretty quiet.
Tory Boy Andrew Pearce slaughtered MP's last night saying they are getting 80K a year as it is, whereas a nurse is on a quarter of that.
When people are losing jobs, surviving on nothing, waiting for this invisible financial help from the government yet they may get 10k each. Surely that ain't right. Must be lazy journalism
Business Watch! Tesco, enjoying disease driven boom times and helped by £585m support from various government pandemic schemes, prepares to pay out £900m in dividends to shareholders. Oh yes. Reckoning list expanding! Meanwhile my lad, enjoying no discernible government support and surviving by having a very good employer/landlord and parents who can keep him afloat, is delighted to have a couple of days work next week, because he hates being idle. I’m happy to invest in him with no promise of a dividend.
Coronavirus: France and Germany count economic cost of crisis https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-france-and-germany-count-economic-cost-of-crisis-11970616 a 16-hour meeting between European leaders that stretched overnight into Wednesday morning failed to reach agreement on how to help the eurozone cope with the damage. Typical EU tw2ts. Stop talking about it and help out the states in desperate need! This is why the whole thing will collapse. I am glad we got out when we did.
The government could nip this in the bud straight away by increasing dividend tax under emergency measures. I would never want to dissuade investors and shareholders from receiving a return on their investments, but there's loads that can be done here to ease the public perceptions. As I've said before, personally I'd have closed the stock exchanges weeks ago to prevent speculators from making large gains effectively from the misery of the masses too.
They do and that is the point. They (bureaucrats) spend too much talking and having meetings that go nowhere. They need to get off their arses and start making decisions and helping out their states.
Oops sorry thats not my thoughts but leaders and officials from EU states that feel that the EU commission is not doing enough.
We’ll see how the Swedes get on. I believe their curve started relatively late from memory but they’re probably the most laissez-faire about it of the non-mental European countries. Currently a similar number of cases per capita as us but a far lower number of deaths per capita. 30% or so more tests per capita but then the 100k tests a day target is just round the corner. The mighty Belarus who are planning to handle this with regular saunas and vodka have a higher test rate than us if those Worldometer bods are correct.
Good call. I have a knee jerk reaction when I read these things, then I remember, 30 minutes later, that our pensions come from these things, as well as yachts for bastards.
