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Rishi Sunak’s radical and immense pledges to try to secure a viable post-Covid-19 economy by directly subsidising the great majority of the cost of temporarily redundant staff with the aim of keeping them from unemployment and keeping the businesses from bankruptcy was extraordinary.
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Of course the Great Plague of the 1660s did coincide with the more colourful period of the Restoration though on the other side
A couple of weeks ago I literally did a bigger than normal supermarket shop and a CostCo trip and yes I have run out of a couple of things like apples, but still have more than enough food for a good couple of months if I am not too picky.
e.g A few bags of porridge last for bloody ever. Mix in some slightly different fillers with syrup or cinnamon etc and you basically have breakfast sorted for months to come.
This virus has caused a wave of panic. Politicians especially are afraid of change. Of course this level of spending is unsustainable for any length of time. The fact that the government is planning anyway this suggests that they expect the epidemic to be resolved quite soon.
If the epidemic cannot be contained it will peak and then remain out of control, but with a declining number of cases. At this stage the time will have come to plan a return to normality, although there may be a further wait to carry out these plans.
Interesting move.
Other people who lost their job on February 28th, rather than March 1st will get nothing and self-employed not much more.
I can't help but feel that giving everyone a basic income would have been a fairer way if money had to be handed out like this.
If they really are, I would say go f##k yourself. The worst they can do is eventually try and levy a fine.
For the vast majority in low / middle income, they will continue to receive a level of income upon which they have set their life up around.
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1241300115094147072
Not good. The week to come could be worse.
How will the scheme encourage a self employed worker to stay at home?
Link below is about weaknesses in the government's response -
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/10-days-that-changed-britains-coronavirus-approach
Even BJ hero Churchil had a better government with prominent Labour cabinet members.
Help for the self employed is definitely an area that needs improvement.
In all honesty, we don't really have the lots of the likes of say a Steve Webb sitting on the opposition benches, somebody with really expert knowledge.
In response to @MattW’s question re pruning of forsythia.
1. Get some sharp clean secateurs so the cut is a clean one. You don’t want to be tearing at the twigs or branches.
2. No problem with pruning now - or you could wait until it’s finished flowering. The advantage of pruning now is that the stems with flowers you cut off can be put in the house to brighten it. The forsythia will still flower next year. It’s a tough old plant.
3. Lop off all the long extra stems that are sticking out. Then gradually cut down to the height and width you want. Aim to make it a rounded shape - a bit like a rounded arch - so that it looks pleasing to you and so as you pass it there aren’t bits sticking into you or catching. There is no magic to this - just step back every few minutes just to look at it form different angles.
4. The key to this is to remember that all plants will grow up to the light so if you leave the they will just reach for the sky. If untouched this ends up leaving you with lots of flowers at the top and bare branches at the bottom. So by cutting at the top and cutting the shoots heading skywards you force the plant to send out side shoots which will flower and it will look rounder and squatter and fatter so you get a burst of really bright yellow sunshine just where you want it.
5. Cut just above a flower or bud - a nice neat cut and sloping downwards. This minimises the possibility of any infection. Cut right down to the base any stems which look empty or straggly.
Plants are fine with pruning. It generally makes them stronger. Forsythia is as tough as old boots.
https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report-international/eu-eases-rules-more-on-government-handouts-for-virus-tax-relief
She ought to get Shadow Home Secretary to work side by side with Starmer.
Sounds like the Danish scheme was approved in 24 hrs despite also being against the rules. If this is just a journalist realising its against some rules that can be waived its fake news and pathetic journalism trying to sow division at a time like this.
I dont have access to the Times so not sure if the EU are genuinely trying to stop the aid or someone is just quoting existing rules which are already being waived in the exceptional circumstances?
The EU has probably come out of this pandemic the worst, second only to Trump.
EDIT: OK, they are MAYBE third to the Iranian Ayatollahs....
https://twitter.com/toaster_pastry/status/1241206661114499074?s=21
Who else?
(edit: the quotes are buggered up, apologies)
Outrageous and unlike me to say this but 'they can get stuffed'
Isn't another possibility that Chinese production of most things (including tinned food) recovers (IF they have overcome the virus) and people short of domestic goods to buy swirch to buying Chinese exports on a scale not yet seen? As a result, the renminbi shoots up, the Chinese population accelerates to first world standards, and the rest of the world gets poorer - but not necessarily dramatically so.
This "Chinese economy to the rescue" scenario may sound unliukely, but it's actually pretty much what's happened with consumer goods already - they would be far more expensive except that we've all switched to buying cheaper Asian-made exports.
I heard this morning on a radio program the figure 100 000 test in the last week. I doubt this is an exact figure but if it is halfway accurate then this is much higher than in the UK, roughly three times as many. This corroberates a bit of the idea that the German testing is picking up more positives in young/middle aged adults than in other countries, leading to a much lower death rate.
Another interesting thing is that the Johns Hopkins positive case numbers are starting to diverge from the RKI numbers. THis was even the second news item in the DLF radio news this morning, without really explaining why. It would seem strange if private organisations test results were being published somewhere without the RKI being informed.
Well its a theory.
Its one thing to think well I will buy this cheaper desk fan, what's the worst that could happen, it doesn't work as well as the 100x as expensive Dyson, but food....
If true it a devastating own goal and will see any support for the EU collapse
At the end of the day, over the past 3 weeks on here we have taken the UK figures and really over analyzed each day, and it doesn't really help the situation.
How much of the US national debt is owned by China as an example.
It is so easy to believe the story and in the absence of a denial it must be assumed this is their position, and devastating for their remaining support in the UK
It would link trade and overseas aid policies to countries which had appropriate levels of environmental and human rights standards.
International travel and tourism would receive higher taxation.
Globalised finance and big business would be more heavily regulated and a 'localism' agenda encouraged.