BawWatchin

He is though. This really is their best effort these days.

Aye, but polls are meaningless when they don't say what you want them to say m8.

In a UK with a government that raises the pension age around 5 years every 2 years. Such a thing will clearly never happen.

You've had several questionable penalties and a goal on the break after being under sustained pressure. I'm confident Hearts won't be going back up this season.

Haven't seen scenes like these since the massacre of 2016.

It's as if we've got a severely weakened side out or something The weakest Hearts player being the ref tbqhwy.

Sir David Gray. He loves a late goal against diddy outfits.

Hearts won't win the championship at this level of performance.

Chris (I support the unionist teams) Sutton think both were stonewall penalties and Raith should be down to 9 men.

A penalty for backball. Hopefully ref sees it at half time and "levels it up" after the break.

Yes. That's what a recession is and it's entirely avoidable.

His arse will truly be remembered in Hibby legend.

Well yes, it is. Recessions occur when there isn't enough business to meet demand. This only happens when confidence is low in the economy. It's not directly caused by anything else. As long as there is confidence in the economy, the economy will continue to function normally, regardless of anything else going on. If a country loses half of it's population as a result of war, pandemic or any other reason, then it only requires half the level of business that it needed previously to meet the needs of it's population. It's fear and low levels of confidence triggered by such events which ultimately result in recession. Not the events themselves, but peoples emotional reactions to them.

Free vodka and Richmonds for all over 75s.

When there are less people, there are less demands and less job requirements. The size of an economy adjusts to the size of the population on which the economy is based on. Smaller population, less merchants required. That's exactly what happens.

These factors are not the direct cause. Productivity doesn't have to go down for any of these reasons.

Recessions are completely avoidable. They occur when confidence in the economy is low. People spend less, so companies make less money, resulting in the lay off of staff, which means people have less money to spend and it forms a cycle. As long as people keep spending money, there will be jobs available and money to be earned. Recessions are driven purely by ideology. Also are you suggesting that the loss of industry on the West Coast has resulted in permanent unemployment?

Any economist would agree with me. Clearly you're not one of them and thinks the economy is just going to suddenly stop one day, despite the fact that people are the economy and it would make zero sense for people to cause it to stop.

Your ideological thinking on the economy is clouding you from the reality of how it functions. The economy always provides societies needs. When there is a demand for something, the economy provides the service. If there isn't a demand for it, then it doesn't matter if it's not provided. If there is less of something in the future, then it's only because less people in society are interested in that particular service. If there is more of something, it's because more people want it. Society makes the economy what it is. If there are less jobs in the future, then it will only be because society has determined that less jobs are required for the system to function.

I'm a one man party. Will never be elected. But can never be unelected either.

People don't become unemployed forever. They lose their job for whatever reason then move on to something else when the opportunity presents itself. The idea that people will never want to go to pubs again anytime in the future just because they've been restricted for a while is laughable. Sure, some of them will go out of business. But new pubs will replace them when the economy demands it. If not, something new will take their place offering fresh new jobs.

Some excellent hoofing from us here. Cove showing how to play it on the ground.

Even they're scratching their heads now wondering why they did it.

Repeating the same thing over and over again only makes it true in your own mind. They may well lose their jobs. But guess what? There will be a demand for the services they provide when things get closer to normal again. So they'll soon find themselves back in work. You need to stop looking at job losses as if it's some permanent thing that people will never recover from. Just because the UK Government is doing the wrong thing, shouldn't prevent us from doing the right thing. Where is the evidence that our rates have "mirrored England" or that we've been "noticeably harsher"? The "sledge hammer" approach WAS working. Rates started rising AFTER we eased the restrictions. The statistics fully back this up. So i'm not sure where the basis for your claim comes from.

They already have. But just because the government demands that people follow these measures, doesn't mean that every individual is going to do so. It's easy to tell people what to do. But ensuring every single person does so is impossible. How about giving these measures longer than 12 hours to prove their effectiveness? Putting the false economy ahead of survival. How very tory of you.