ICTChris Posted November 2, 2020 Author Share Posted November 2, 2020 I don’t want to get into the whole “I’ve got a neck beard and everyone is stupid” thing but is it the case that the U.K. and England in particular, doesn’t really do regionalism very well. Boris Johnson going on the television and saying “we have to stay at home” is easy, everyone gets it. The leader of the Tees Valley Municipality announcing it in the local paper just doesn’t cut through to people. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 19 minutes ago, WhiteRoseKillie said: Call me picky, I like my women to have a soul. Typo? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13082035/death-forecast-national-lockdown-four-times-too-high/amp/?__twitter_impression=true Classic UK Gov response tbh. Current data doesn't support your chosen path? No problem, use old data. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 More people have caught the virus on holiday in Blackpool than abroad before returning to Scotland. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleMoo Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 The potential for a fatality would put Swain to the forefront, as he's not the healthiest looking specimen. Saying that, wee "struggle snuggle" Francois doesn't look like a Gym Bunny either. Let's face it, the number of Tory MPs in this current crop who would leave the world poorer for their passing could be counted on the fingers of one foot. A Pistorius foot. My vote goes to Patel, mind - if only because that cúnt Rees-Smug has been keeping out of the limelight recently, thereby not continually feeding the flames of my disdain. Yeah, Patel. She'll do. Make it so.Has Iain Duncan Smith had it yet? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 37 minutes ago, peasy23 said: I phoned family in Exeter last night and they are astounded they are being put into full lockdown. Cases have been dropping and businesses were just starting to get back in their feet. They were fully expecting to be in Tier 1 for the foreseeable future, so pubs and restaurants especially were spending money on things to try and be as safe as they could be for the upcoming festive season. My uncle has a shopfitting business and they just finished building a set of mini chalets for a bar in town, they hold 6 people and are heated and each has their own music system so you can play your own music. Cost thousands to build, opened on Thursday night, and that will be them closed again this week. Boris's about turns will cost more jobs. Exeter is a big university town, that was the main cause of the spike in cases in the graph below. Notably, a rate of cases that never reached the threshold for Tier 2 at any point. Ridiculous. I expected to be put into Tier 2, which to be fair would be justified given the case rates. They've been rising steadily even if not rapidly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Sturgeon drops a major hint that level 4 is incoming 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Sturgeon drops a major hint that level 4 is incoming Level 4 becuase there’s money in the budget to pay people to sit at home doing f**k all, nothing to do with safety or case numbersThis is a fucking farce 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian1 Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, effeffsee_the2nd said: Level 4 becuase there’s money in the budget to pay people to sit at home doing f**k all, nothing to do with safety or case numbers This is a fucking farce so what is your solution to this issue? Do we continue to allow Westminster to spend Scottish, Welsh, N Irish and English tax income on an English only furlough scheme. As things stand, this is the reality of life in an unequal union Edited November 2, 2020 by Caledonian1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Just now, effeffsee_the2nd said: Level 4 becuase there’s money in the budget to pay people to sit at home doing f**k all, nothing to do with safety or case numbers This is a fucking farce At least it would bring our case number down, what happens if Scotland gets absolutely battered with Covid over the coming months and we don't have the cash to fund a furlough scheme, who gets the blame for that other than the f**k wits that voted NO, she's not in a good position unless the Treasury comes up with the goods. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, effeffsee_the2nd said: Level 4 becuase there’s money in the budget to pay people to sit at home doing f**k all, nothing to do with safety or case numbers This is a fucking farce You think they wouldn't have bundled Glasgow and Lanarkshire in there already if the money had been there to do it for the length of time they would need to impose it? Edited November 2, 2020 by renton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 1 minute ago, Caledonian1 said: so what is your solution to this issue? Do we continue to allow Westminster to spend Scottish, Welsh, N Irish and English tax income on an English only furlough scheme. As things stand, this is the reality of life in an unequal union The JRS being extended till end of November means it can be used up here by those businesses that need it anyway. The idea that we should actively close a business just so that the government can pay the wages of the staff is bizarre. If there is a genuine need to go to Level 4 in a particular area, and the only reason she hasn't done so already is because the JRS was not going to be available, then by all means do so. But don't just do it because "oh we can get more money" -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 What a shambles the UK government are Us, Wales and N.Ireland should just declare independence and GTF out of this shit show 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 1 minute ago, Todd_is_God said: The JRS being extended till end of November means it can be used up here by those businesses that need it anyway. The idea that we should actively close a business just so that the government can pay the wages of the staff is bizarre. If there is a genuine need to go to Level 4 in a particular area, and the only reason she hasn't done so already is because the JRS was not going to be available, then by all means do so. But don't just do it because "oh we can get more money" It's more of a gamble than you're leading people to believe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 2 minutes ago, ayrmad said: It's more of a gamble than you're leading people to believe. In what way? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 What a shambles the UK government are Us, Wales and N.Ireland should just declare independence and GTF out of this shit showAbsolutely ridiculous that UK taxpayers money can be used only to provide furlough when it suits England, it's beyond contempt that Scotland may be forced into tighter restrictions when they might not be most needed simply because the keeper of the purse strings says you can only access what our tax payers are contributing to when it suits England.This is real rock and a hard place stuff for the SG. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 You think they wouldn't have bundled Glasgow and Lanarkshire in there already if the money had been there to do it for the length of time they would need to impose it?For the third fuckin time today, a business does NOT have to be closed in order to furlough workers. Nor does it require to be affected by government restrictions. My workplace was deemed an essential service yet we furloughed staff even tho the place was operating right the way through . They done it to mitigate heavy losses due to lack of demand . If a business in rural Scotland cant justify a full compliment of staff becuase people from restricted areas can’t come and spend money and there’s not enough demand locally, then they can if they want, furlough 60% of staff whilst keeping trading. You do not have to make everycunt stay in their house just so we compensate struggling businesses. I stand by my comments. This is a farce 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 3 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said: Absolutely ridiculous that UK taxpayers money can be used only to provide furlough when it suits England, it's beyond contempt that Scotland may be forced into tighter restrictions when they might not be most needed simply because the keeper of the purse strings says you can only access what our tax payers are contributing to when it suits England. This is real rock and a hard place stuff for the SG. Spot on complete waste of our money. I seriously hope people watching think if THIS is the best Scotland can hope for. I would upgrade the marginals to 4 and downgrade the islands to 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Scosha Posted November 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 2, 2020 I voted no in the Independence referendum back in 2014, not because I don’t want us to be independent, but because I felt we wouldn’t have been able to manage on our own and wasn’t convinced about the SNP party leading us into the unknown. The past few years I’ve sometimes regretted the decision but this whole furlough fiasco is the final straw for me. Get us out this ‘Union’. What a fucking shambles. 31 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen Sannox Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Absolutely disgraceful from Sturgeon, no reported deaths and she’s plunging us back into lockdown. Wave a bit of furlough money in front of her and she changes course completely. Of course it will suit the work shy and cement her popularity amongst them. -20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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