Rui_CostCo
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Not sure who fell on his sword to take the heat of Boris. Ferguson or his married lover
Pretty poor form from Sunak and our old friend "senior Government source" to be saying that the furlough scheme will have to be tapered off/ended as people are "addicted" to it.
1) How the fuck can they be "addicted", everyone's only received one payment so far haven't they? And I don't even get to make my claim as a self-employed individual for another week.
2) You know exactly what kind of connotations that kind of terminology has.
3) How does this tally with "whatever it takes" which has been the message to date?
4) How does sending everyone back to work tally with your five tests and no news on an exit strategy?
5) If people can't go back to work (because they're too high risk as individuals, for example), or the businesses they work for simply are unable to survive because we're in some kind of halfway house between where we are now and where we were in February, what then? Millions on to Universal Credit, but there's pretty much no work to search for? Which brings us back to asking MPs if they fancy trying to live on £94 a week. And the system is already shit and doesn't work properly.
6) Everyone already knows this can't last forever FFS.
Also shows the 1922 committee are clearly angling for lockdown being removed.
Have to say the media coverage today is a bit shit. They day after getting the highest death toll in Europe our papers seem to be delighted they can ignore that and instead play around with lockdown/pantsdown headlines.
They've been repeatedly criticised for being too harsh, so I think they have relaxed their criticisms a little, so here we are with the highest death toll in Europe, but the reporting is somewhat minimal for what is major news.
They've been repeatedly criticised for being too harsh, so I think they have relaxed their criticisms a little, so here we are with the highest death toll in Europe, but the reporting is somewhat minimal for what is major news.
200,000 testing target by the end of May. .
Who has criticised them for being too harsh?
Most stuff I've seen is of them not being harsh enough or taking the government to task enough.
Personally I think they've been terrible, poor questions, no actual journalism and the relaying of agendas instead of actual news.
Some opinions on our response from abroad:
Australia - https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe...ere-did-britain-go-wrong-20200428-p54o2d.html
America - New Yorker- https://www.newyorker.com/news/dail...cal-response-to-britains-coronavirus-disaster
America - CNN - https://edition.cnn.com/videos/worl...us-boris-johnson-nick-paton-walsh-pkg-vpx.cnn
Canada - https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uk-coronavirus-1.5554837
Turkey - https://www.aa.com.tr/en/analysis/o...ovid-19-mismanagement-what-went-wrong/1812838
Reuters - https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coronavirus-britain-elderly/