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As for Graham Brady, perhaps if you hadn't so successfully scared the general public they wouldn't be so scared to go outside.
Previously:
Government Adult Social care £10m
Council expenditure £10m
Total available £20m
After reforms:
Council Expenditure £15m
Total available: £15m
Osbourne and Cameron's Government sat there and said we've given you £5m more a year but ignored the fact they are increased Council required Expenditure by £10m.
It can;t last long. And when the music stops I suspect the millions of extra unemployed will have a different view of the lockdown extension and the government.
What's next brilliant idea from this collection of overgrown children and cowards?
Extra restrictions on social distancing for a year that will ensure the economic bounceback will be of the dead cat variety.
Hectoring businesses on what they must do if they want to re-open. Many thousands simply won't
They are lurching from catastrophe to catastrophe
As I`ve said before the government needs to message the public in a way that represents a call to duty to get the economy back up and running. The Labour Party will no doubt be an obstacle in this aim. Interesting to see how this plays out.
Sunik's fear will be the fact that companies are discovering they can manage just fine without their furloughed staff. Some firms seem to have noticed that as Personal Today had an article last week pointing out that you can use Furlough money to pay redundancy payments.
Quite apart from the extra red tape, they are exposing businesses to a wave of 'safety' lawsuits, compensation claims and union hyperactivity.
Almost like repealing the Thatcher reforms.
My Dad and I sounds natural
I and my Dad makes no sense to me at all.
The tax base is being destroyed at the same time as debt is soaring.
I finished my Criminal Law module yesterday when I made the finishing touches to my coursework that replaced the exam. Only 6 more modules to go!
No risk.
Once that happens, no government can keep the lockdown in place as the public are not daft sheep who cling on their every word.
Ok maybe Scotland - but elsewhere it will not be practical. Once the Sun and the Mail have moved from NHS sainthoods to "Open the pubs and get the footie on.." then it will move and fast.
The way I think about whether it should be "me" or "I" is to remove the other person and use whichever sounds right.
A lot more will keep going with fewer staff.
Debt is soaring but it's still of the one off variety that you can justify and ignore. If furloughing has to continue then it becomes a problem
Ideally lifting the lockdown should coincide with when the public is confident, willing and eager to go out.
We could have a market-based system, funded through insurance, if we so wished. But there is no evidence that the public wants this, or would tolerate the inequality in treatment it would cause. Equally, we can have a NHS, funded through general taxation. But a halfway house is doomed to fail. Instead, we have to run the NHS better.
Inevitably, this will require more funding, to allow the NHS to catch up with rising demand and allow for the reality that we have to spend more over time because there are more old people. We should also reverse much of the internal market and overturn the Lansley reforms, which increased bureaucracy and destroyed accountability. And we need to go further in improving accountability, through data transparency and a stronger inspections framework.
If we want to learn the real lessons from Germany, we should decentralise within the NHS, finding the right-sized units and structures to run it well and with better local accountability. We should seek a better balance between efficiency, and preparedness and resilience. We should improve our diagnostics capacity and increase domestic vaccine manufacturing capabilities. And we must find a funding solution for social care, which during the crisis has been shown without doubt to be in severe crisis.
So yes, the NHS will need to change, but not in the ways envisaged by the free-market reformers.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/03/can-learn-germany-butnot-privatising-national-health-service/
I think the government`s messaging has been misunderstood. The instruction for key workers to have their children looked after at school has been muddled with "carry on working (from home where possible)" resulting in far more people who that not key workers being furloughed or stopping work themselves (e.g. where s/e) . A few people I`ve spoken to have said things along the lines of "I`m not a key worker so I`m not working".
The nature of the government's policy is that it is difficult to ditch or retreat from quickly because the economic and social stakes are so high.
People have to be convinced that the disease was a big threat to everybody, that the hugely expensive measures were necessary and that they worked.
"Mary and I invited John for dinner" . . . just like "I invited John for dinner"
"John invited me and Mary for dinner" . . . just like "John invited me for dinner"
Guess what happened in the market for competent Council leaders.
I'm not sure where the market for competent Council leaders is. A competent Council leader wouldn't be one paying themselves ridiculously over the odds while shuttering the services they provide.
This week's automotive industry distress signal in my inbox was a Honda CBR1000RR SP for £419/month. I may have succumbed... Who can say no to Ohlins NPX Smart EC 2.0 forks at that price?
Perhaps some might like to reconsider their estimates how many of those 'furloughed' 6.3m workers are going to keep their jobs.
It was a choice between economic problems with the lockdown (and to be clear, I don't underplay it) all the associated costs and economic armageddon combined with health service failure without it.
The lockdown is inordinately expensive, but affordable at a push. Not having it would have resulted in ruin.
I actually think we are seeing the same thing from different angles, you think the companies should have kept people working regardless, I think those companies have identified the people they need and the surplus can be binned off.
A lot of my linkedIn feed matches the latter - I've even seen Sales Consultant specialists (i.e. people who make money coaching and training sales teams and managers) that now is a very good time to identify and clear dead wood. It's actually put me off trying to recruit people as it's going to be impossible identifying people who are any good.
PMI asks purchasing managers - rebased in effect to 100 of them - if they have grown, contracted, or stayed the same in the last month.
The last month was terrible (in the sense of widespread slowdown - PMI isn't very good at measuring depth of decline) doesn't tell us very much about a return to work.
How many would be unemployed without the furlough scheme? I'd suspect about 6m....the other 300k may well have died.
You want as much as possible, while paying everyone else as little as you can get away with.
Pubs, flights abroad, restaurants, any sort of indoor leisure ?
Sod that.
Paying even £50k-£100k to save £5m is an obvious bargain but it means that that the new market rate for a competent Council leader is now £50k more than it used to be.
The irony is that this market probably didn't even exist until Austerity kicked in and it's Austerity that has resulted in the wages of Council leaders increasing..
There is no free market there. People taking taxes by force of the law and giving it in largesse to themselves while whining they haven't got enough money and cutting services is not free market capitalism.
If it was a free market company that was slashing its services while paying over the odds to its Chief Executives a competitor that was leaner would arise and people would take their consumption and expenditure to that one. That can't happen with taxes though. Appeals to some 'market' are absurd.
A good Council leader would be one who lives within the budget they have, getting their best results possible and being paid accordingly. Not slashing services and being paid well over the odds.
It is going to be carnage.
Their Party deserves nothing but ridicule whilst this small-mindedness prevails.
In practice, Biden could withdraw before then or between the DNC and the election. Be aware that some and possibly all bets are settled on who is picked at the DNC and not who actually runs in November.
We'd expect Biden to announce his running mate shortly before the DNC but there is nothing to stop him doing so this afternoon if the Dems believe it will help them in the election.
https://twitter.com/nickeardleybbc/status/1257592715941904386?s=20
My view is that it is a pampered, unaffordable luxury to be paying county staff more than the Prime Minister of the country - and if you can afford to do that then there hasn't been enough austerity yet.
With a vaccine & winter they will come roaring back.
As bad is it may be to be a gym/hotel/restaurant at the moment - what I would really hate to be is a landlord for any of the above, about to lose 9 months rent and then likely have to cut new leases by as much as 75%.
You clearly haven't had a close look at the current crop of council leaders around the country.
Also sitting in the pub with friends having a (draught) beer.
The daily YouGov survey commissioned by the Cabinet Office for the 29-30 March suggests that only 13% of the population are going to their place of work as much as usual, 84% have entirely stopped seeing members of their family who do not live with them and 91% have entirely stopped seeing friends.....There is evidence that these behavioural changes began to appear in mid-March and steadily improved over time..
The 3rd area they considered has been redacted entirely.
The thrust of my argument is that the government's policy has made the hit far, far worse than it needed to be economically, and the argument that it has 'saved lives' is at least questionable and possibly completely bogus.
If Google started slashing its services while doubling their salaries then yes I think we would be looking at competitors.
Oh and remember the only reason why the PM's pay is what it is, is because Gordon Brown pulled a fast one in the days before the 2010 election and hadn't taken the full amount before then.
Blair was on the 2010 equivalent of £190,000 see https://fullfact.org/law/how-much-does-prime-minister-get-paid/
Why is the government paying businesses primary cost (wages) via virtually interest-free borrowing an economic hit?
Given that Councils have needed to cut their cloth since then they should have done that from the top. If they can't afford an executive so be it, say goodbye to them and hire someone they can afford. Brighton and Hove Albion have no divine right to afford the wages of Virgil van Dijk.
If Councils can afford to pay ludicrously high wages then their budgets are still full of largesse and can be cut further.