leedswolf
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Correct. #6187Sites are shut voluntarily though aren't they? I didn't think the government had ever imposed a construction site shutdown?
Correct. #6187Sites are shut voluntarily though aren't they? I didn't think the government had ever imposed a construction site shutdown?
The site never shut, doesn't mean there's been full attendance.Sites are shut voluntarily though aren't they? I didn't think the government had ever imposed a construction site shutdown?
It's pretty obvious what his grand plan was, we have a few days of wartime nostalgia (which he bloody loves), at the end of which he swoops in and becomes the nation's hero on a Sunday night, opening a load of stuff and returning us to a semblance of normality. What a ruddy guy, eh.
Unfortunately for him, viruses do not work like that, the data doesn't support what he wants and this isn't for once a situation where he gets to do whatever he likes.
So we get this empty void of nothing and muddying of the waters, more questions than answers, and now a nation where different constituent parts are doing different things. All because he had to have his big showbiz moment (rather than putting it through Parliament like someone normal would do, and Lindsay Hoyle has already bollocked him for this).
You're not Ant and you're certainly not Dec. Leave primetime TV to the experts, you try to run the country, after all it is your job.
there must be thousands of people sat there right now thinking "fuck, do I have to go to work tomorrow?"
how can he conceivably give people less than half a days notice?
Have I missed something or when has swimming in rivers been encouraged?
How about hairdressers? Not in any of the proscribed categories. Can't work from home. But you can't practice social distancing (but nor can you in many factories or construction settings, yet they've been told to go back to work).
Dentists?
Estate agents?
I can't believe that they were flagging up this amazing speech nearly a week in advance and *that* is the best they could do. Fucking hell. Well I can believe it, but you know what I mean.
To be fair he said detail will come out in parliament tomorrow. I’m not a Boris fan by any means, but it’s a tad unreasonable to expect him to go into the details of the policy during 15 minutes on Sunday evening TV.
To be fair he said detail will come out in parliament tomorrow. I’m not a Boris fan by any means, but it’s a tad unreasonable to expect him to go into the details of the policy during 15 minutes on Sunday evening TV.
It would have been nice to release the document at the same time though rather than wait a day. Nothing that happens in the HoC tommorow will change what has been put in them, so do talk, release docs and let people try to understand them.
How about hairdressers? Not in any of the proscribed categories. Can't work from home. But you can't practice social distancing (but nor can you in many factories or construction settings, yet they've been told to go back to work).
Dentists?
Estate agents?
I can't believe that they were flagging up this amazing speech nearly a week in advance and *that* is the best they could do. Fucking hell. Well I can believe it, but you know what I mean.
Distancing has been watered down on construction sites for weeks already.
First had people from the same residence allowed to work together, then had short intervals (circa 15mins) allowed to work in close proximity and now got people being allowed to work and travel together as long as they stay in the same groups consistently. Biggest problems on construction sites at the moment are the welfare facilities, impossible to avoid bottlenecks there without some massively over the top, by normal standards, measures.
Supply chain issues have been the bigger problem in my experience so far, loads of subcontractors and their suppliers just shut up shop without thinking when lockdown was first announced then had to try and get themselves back into gear once they realised majority of sites were still open and expecting them to turn up. Had a few we're dealing with where they're almost cutting their nose off to spite their face by keeping people on furlough when they could be working because they want to claim the government money so have to keep them off for 3 weeks rather than shoulder the cost of the 1 week or less that they hastily shelved them for.
Some employers make me sick. Putting the welfare of their workforce before profit is disgusting. If they're not prepared to sacrifice a few workers lives they shouldn't be in business. Wonder what their excuse will be now that we're almost out of the second highest level of risk on the crisis scale? Bet they'll say it's because most sane people wouldn't voluntarily want to work anywhere that couldn't offer any kind of assurance they wouldn't be forced to accept working conditions that could put theirs and their families lives at risk. Arseholes.