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Hoop-Leif said:
So whats it like in other R's parts of the uk?

Here in little old Nuneaton there are people out and about on foot everywhere and the roads are quite busy.

Surely everyone of them cant be going shopping?

It appears the lockdown has been called off without any kind of official announcement. Think i might go to the pub
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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.
 
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sb_73 said:
MPs offered £10k each to help them ‘work from home’.

Passport office staff protest about being asked to go back to work, in socially distanced shifts. Presumably they are on full pay at home.
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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.

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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.
 
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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. :steam: 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.
 
sb_73 said:
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!
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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.
 
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ELLERS said:
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. :steam: 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.
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You used to moan they the EU had too much control by the way.
 
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West WindsR said:
You used to moan they the EU had too much control by the way.
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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.
 
Stroller said:
This really needs to get more attention.
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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.
 
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Uber_Hoop said:
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.
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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.
 
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