Coronavirus

[Paul]

684 additional hospital deaths reported today.

I hate to admit how flippantly I've been reading these figures, every single one of those was someones husband, wife, son, daughter etc etc, It is so, so sad .

 

[Rui_CostCo]

Not a fan of Matt Hancock calling out Prem Footballers to "take a pay cut and do their bit". Why just footballers, Matt? I know it comes from Spurs and Newcastle saying they will apply for the 80% from the Government for their non playing staff but it just stinks of a bit of deflecting for me. Loads of clubs and players are doing their bit and will do more, just concentrate on being able to hit your testing goals and keeping the nation safe rather than calling out a small % of people because they earn a bit.

All a bit Cameron diving in on Jimmy Carr for tax dodging is this(then keeping schtum when people he knows get found out for doing the same)

-Joe Lewis. Spurs. Worth £4.5bn. Tax exile. Disgusting.

Lots of players are doing stuff to try and make a positive difference to peoples lives, Hancock's comments were out of order, why not nail -Philip Green. Arcadia. Worth £2.2bn. Company owned by wife Tina - tax exile or -Richard Branson. Virgin Atlantic. Worth £3.5bn. Tax exile ?

 

[Dire Wolf]

Mate, you'll never starve with that chip on your shoulder, keep it up, please, you make me smile !

Ah, the good old last refuge of the selfish, I'm alright Jack mentality: say that anyone who speaks out against inequality and injustice has a chip on their shoulder. It's good to see some things never change...

 

[Rui_CostCo]

Mate, you'll never starve with that chip on your shoulder, keep it up, please, you make me smile !

In the absence of anything better to do than respond to passive aggressive snide comments

Mate, you'll never starve with that chip on your shoulder, keep it up, please, you make me smile !

I've lived in the Surrey/Hampsire area for the last 20 years.

We currently live in a 2nd floor flat of a 3 storey parade within a smallish self contained designed community. Everyone in the shops, the tesco mini, chinese, chipshop, dentists, beauty salon dentists, cafe and community centre here knows each of the residents on a first name basis, we all use the pub off the parade of shops, which was great when it had a Portuguese landlord called Rui who declared the place a Wolves pub and all the local residents know each other if not by name, then by face. It's a lovely little place that's well designed has a park in front of the pub and a small lake close by.

The police have been pretty hot on pro actively having a polite community chat with people about non essential journeys, walking round and using the park and we frequently just have a car on the car park watching whats going on.

When this all started, the Tesco was getting stripped by locusts who no one recognised which was why they put purchasing restrictions in place , like max 2 cases of beer and max 2 bottles of spirits max 6 bottles of wine, 1 pack of eggs 4 p[its of milk and 2 loaves of bread.

I used to smoke outside, but these days i hang out the front window, for some reason I'm smoking quite a lot so I spend quite a lot of time watching the comings and goings. First I started to recognise people I've worked with, knew from other towns, drunk with in the wider area or just 'socialised' with turning up here having travelled a fair distance to get here. Once the quantity restrictions were put in place, I started seeing some of them paying a visit in their company car, then half an hour coming back i their Mrs car dressed in different clothes and then coming back again in the evenings in different clothes in their kids cars to try and avoid a chat with plod and beat the purchasing restrictions policy in place

The tesco's staff have cracked onto it now and dont even put eggs milk and bread out. If you're local and ask they'll get stuff from out the back for you, if you're not, they've run out. It's the only way they've been able to stop people coming in from miles away who cant be arsed to go to the larger stores more local to them and fight their way round bulk stocking up on essentials meant for the immediate planned community who support the local businesses all year round.

 

[Johnny75]

-Joe Lewis. Spurs. Worth £4.5bn. Tax exile. Disgusting.

Lots of players are doing stuff to try and make a positive difference to peoples lives, Hancock's comments were out of order, why not nail -Philip Green. Arcadia. Worth £2.2bn. Company owned by wife Tina - tax exile or -Richard Branson. Virgin Atlantic. Worth £3.5bn. Tax exile ?

Can you see the irony in defending multi millionaire footballers after lambasting people who you seem to be more affluent than you doing something you deem to be unworthy.

 

[Tredman]

Can you see the irony in defending multi millionaire footballers after lambasting people who you seem to be more affluent than you doing something you deem to be unworthy.

Footballers are not the ones furloughing people on minimum wage though.

 

[Johnny75]

Ah, the good old last refuge of the selfish, I'm alright Jack mentality: say that anyone who speaks out against inequality and injustice has a chip on their shoulder. It's good to see some things never change...

Ah, the 'if you don't think like me then you're all selfish' retort. It's good to see some things will never change in socialism land...

Feeling sad your great leader has gone today?

 

[Johnny75]

Footballers are not the ones furloughing people on minimum wage though.

I presume those people in his leafy Surrey home aren't all furloughing folks either.

The question asked to Matt Hancock was directly about footballers, he did say everybody should be doing their bit. It was a piss poor opportunistic question. A journalistic equivalent of live click bait.

 

[Kenny]

Ah, the 'if you don't think like me then you're all selfish' retort. It's good to see some things will never change in socialism land...

Feeling sad your great leader has gone today?

Finally! Was worried about you but your daily socialism jab has arrived. I can rest easy this evening...

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

Are people wearing masks and gloves over there?

I am starting to see a few over here with gloves (and am wearing them myself), but only spot 5-6 masks a day. I think that will increase a lot soon as more people work out how to make their own.


SA had just over 200 cases of the virus until yesterday when 59 were reported in a single nursing home. Total deaths here is still only 9.

 

[Tredman]

I presume those people in his leafy Surrey home aren't all furloughing folks either.

The question asked to Matt Hancock was directly about footballers, he did say everybody should be doing their bit. It was a piss poor opportunistic question. A journalistic equivalent of live click bait.

Don’t disagree at all, but all this nonsense about footballers is classic Dom deadcat shit.

 

[Johnny75]

Don’t disagree at all, but all this nonsense about footballers is classic Dom deadcat shit.

The footballers could've killed it dead as could the PFA, both failed spectacularly yesterday. Gordon Taylor the head of the PFA has said fuck all and he's on £2.3m a year. A union rep on £2.3m a year, just let that sink in.

The owners are the ones furloughing the staff and as Spurs made £68m in profits last year the question should've been about companies that are furloughing staff having made profits which could be in cash reserves rather than attacking footballers.

The journo was the cunt in this not the politician.

 

[Tredman]

The footballers could've killed it dead as could the PFA, both failed spectacularly yesterday. Gordon Taylor the head of the PFA has said fuck all and he's on £2.3m a year. A union rep on £2.3m a year, just let that sink in.

The owners are the ones furloughing the staff and as Spurs made £68m in profits last year the question should've been about companies that are furloughing staff having made profits which could be in cash reserves rather than attacking footballers.

The journo was the cunt in this not the politician.

Most Journalists don’t have an original thought in their head, they follow the narrative and trend of the ‘Westminster sources’ talking to Peston and LK.

 

[Rui_CostCo]

I presume those people in his leafy Surrey home aren't all furloughing folks either.

The question asked to Matt Hancock was directly about footballers, he did say everybody should be doing their bit. It was a piss poor opportunistic question. A journalistic equivalent of live click bait.

Most companies here in the designed local offices are working from home, and not furloughing. There are a lot of tech companies based here whose style of business suits that way of working. Companies that have no choice are furloughing those they can, and those who started after the cut off point for the government furloughing scheme they are retaining on 80% of their normal wage paid for out of the companies own pockets. We look after each other round here

 

[Johnny75]

Most Journalists don’t have an original thought in their head, they follow the narrative and trend of the ‘Westminster sources’ talking to Peston and LK.

Peston has been awful from the start of this. If he doesn't get the answer he wants he bumbles his way on without any semblance of coherent question narrative.

The C4 joirno just comes across as angry at everything and the SKY guy is just useless.

LK has been OK and measured in her questions.

 

[Johnny75]

Most companies here in the designed local offices are working from home, and not furloughing. There are a lot of tech companies based here whose style of business suits that way of working. Companies that have no choice are furloughing those they can, and those who started after the cut off point for the government furloughing scheme they are retaining on 80% of their normal wage paid for out of the companies own pockets. We look after each other round here

Not that I know your area that much but if you accepted a job before the furlough date but didn't officially start until after it you are still covered and can be furloughed.

I don't know about where you are but saying 'we look after each other round here' as if to infer furloughing staff is somehow not looking after them is ignorant and tasteless as you cannot know evetybody's individual circumstances.

 

[Papper]

Much talk of the very rich Philip Green wanting the UK taxpayer to subsidise him. Are his online stores still active ? The days of people like him and their obsessive wealth must soon come to an end. As for the footballers - well I think they have made their hay while in the sun. In a depression the filthy rich will be accountable.

 

[Rui_CostCo]

Not that I know your area that much but if you accepted a job before the furlough date but didn't officially start until after it you are still covered and can be furloughed.

I don't know about where you are but saying 'we look after each other round here' as if to infer furloughing staff is somehow not looking after them is ignorant and tasteless as you cannot know evetybody's individual circumstances.

Please just ignore what I say, i'm not inferring what you claim, you're using behaviours that you accuse others of, such as picking and choosing what to read and what to read into, constantly making personal attacks and unable to accept anyone else should be entitled to an opinion other than your own.

 

[Tredman]

More evidence we are a country of idiots

 

[Tredman]

They are burning 5G towers in Birmingham.

https://twitter.com/imjustbrum/status/1245833218634506240?s=21

Just when I think my scorn levels have reached max.