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Steelmonkey said:
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To give us something to look forward to I put a big map of the world on the wall and gave a dart to my wife and said ‘We will spend two weeks wherever you hit with the dart once we are allowed to travel’

So I’m looking forward to a fortnight behind the fridge.
 
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Steelmonkey said:
What do you reckon the chances are that he'll be able sneak in our stadium and training ground planning permissions through the back door whilst he's in the hot seat?
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It wouldn't surprise me.
If in doubt he could bring in Harry Redknapp to help with recruitment. Harry would do all interviews from his car window.
 
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With Boris/Hancock/Whitty all down with the Virus (the 3 main players). How long will it be before we get conspiracy theorists or people saying this is deliberate because they don't want to face the cameras and questions because 2222 is hitting fan? Not long methinks.
 
I am still bemused as to why our airports are still open to commercial flights, especially from the US where the spread is beginning to grow. Surely, we shouldn't be placing airline staff unduly at risk and only cargo flights should be operated.

Lock us down for our safety please.
 
Looks like the health services in Spain and Italy, or at least parts of these countries, are collapsing. At the stage where people are dying because they can’t be cared for.

Really grim.
 
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Ranger4ever said:
I am still bemused as to why our airports are still open to commercial flights, especially from the US where the spread is beginning to grow. Surely, we shouldn't be placing airline staff unduly at risk and only cargo flights should be operated.

Lock us down for our safety please.
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I feel so sorry for a lot of my old mates and colleagues at BA. They are ****ting themselves if they are still gonna have a job next week......doesn’t look good for them.
 
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Staines R's said:
I feel so sorry for a lot of my old mates and colleagues at BA. They are ****ting themselves if they are still gonna have a job next week......doesn’t look good for them.
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Staines, I worked at BA for 35 years and you are correct. They out sauced loads of the IT side a few years ago, but the one's that I know who are still there are ****ting themselves.
 
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NigsyHoops said:
Staines, I worked at BA for 35 years and you are correct. They out sauced loads of the IT side a few years ago, but the one's that I know who are still there are ****ting themselves.
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I didn’t realise there were any local IT people at BA anymore mate.....I thought they all got outsourced to India to save loads of cash. They used to ship computer bods from India for a couple of days on cheap wages then ship them back again..
I have every sympathy for anyone you know still working there....the future is bleak.
 
Staines R's said:
I didn’t realise there were any local IT people at BA anymore mate.....I thought they all got outsourced to India to save loads of cash. They used to ship computer bods from India for a couple of days on cheap wages then ship them back again..
I have every sympathy for anyone you know still working there....the future is bleak.
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They got rid of about 70%, if not more. The boys and girls that I know who are still there, who I stay in contact with hate it. They changed the shift pattern from 6 on 4 off to 12 hrs shifts.
 
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NigsyHoops said:
They got rid of about 70%, if not more. The boys and girls that I know who are still there, who I stay in contact with hate it. They changed the shift pattern from 6 on 4 off to 12 hrs shifts.
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Typical of that company......treated their workers like **** while the management got fortunes in bonuses. So glad I left when I did....at least I saw the good times
 
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HMRC messages to small companies for deferral of VAT have gone out - my wife has just got one, though her company is dormant. Good to see that some of this stuff is actually happening.

Can’t help but thinking the US £1000 to every worker earning less than about £60k, plus £470 odd per child, is of more instant direct benefit to many people than the complex web of loans, grants, benefits, gifts, exemptions etc that we are setting up. Of course some people will will be getting cash they don’t need, but it’s fast and direct.
 
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sb_73 said:
Just heard on the local (Midlands) news that people dying at home are not being included in the overall death totals. More than a couple of documented cases in this area of people self isolating and dying at home.
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Yes, the centres of problems are London and the Midlands. As you say, may be worse than figures suggest. In Italy, the figues could be times 4 apparently
 
daverangers said:
I've heard the same about it going on until May. Got a good friend who works in tourism and just spoke to him, gutted for him, his business is done for this year.
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Same as my sister. She works in business travel and spent the last 4 weeks cancelling everything :(
 
daverangers said:
Confinement in France extended to April 15th.
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When did it start?

Wuhan was closed down in January and is only very gradually being opened up again now. If the numbers of infections and deaths they reported are believable (sadly I think not, but let’s hope so). And we still need to see about second wave infections. I would expect a 12 week lockdown at least. For us on day 4 that seems like a very long time indeed.
 
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