elise 16 Apr 20 06:19 
No sorry thats not right.

Officially weighed in.

let me know if they pay out before 23:59 on may 1st

PAID OUT PAID OUT

THREAD CLOSED.

2100.

No argument that Boris Johnson is the most left-wing Prime Minister this country has ever elected (or ever will elect).

It certainly explains why we've been left at the mercy of an ideologically-driven, shambolic Nationalized Health Service, in contrast to the private hospitals and labs of, for example, Germany.

It also explains the insane socialist bailing out of every failing "business" in the country, with half the country living the life of Riley on 80% wages while poor sods in supermarkets, care homes and hospitals have to labour on.

Possibly. But they're not.

If businesses folding and workers losing their jobs means that loans and mortgages and rent wouldn't get paid, then let the banks and the landlords take the hit, not the shelf-stacker paying income tax.

This is going to be 2008 all over again, with businesses and households and landlords who refused to put money aside in the good times retaining their assets and their artificially inflated valuations.

Those who do the right thing - put money aside for the bad times, or continue in poorly paid essential jobs - will still find themselves frozen out of decently priced housing at the end of it.

That, to me, is what nationalizing industries and socialism always turn out to be about. Keeping the comfy in the life they're accustomed to, and keeping the workers down there in their place.

What surprises me is that online orders can be transported from one end of the country to the other with no restrictions while private drivers are fined for going 10 miles from home. Any sort of van or lorry delivery seems fine if what passes my window is typical. 90% of traffic apart from farm tractors and landrovers are delivering things.

Depends on whether you want to get back to normal, with homeownership impossibly unaffordable for nurses, and pretend businesses in shiny premises being subsidized by zero-percent interest rates.

A few months with thousands not paying rent to landlords would solve the first problem, and men in suits being forced to face the consequences of setting up a "business" with no plan for an unforeseen event would free up resources in the second.