COVID-19

I'm no expert in anything, just seems to make logical sense. In a business infrastructure sense we are lagging behind other developed countries, a lack of investment for decades has left road and rail networks unfit for purpose in many cases, airports badly rundown. Just don't let Tony Blair organise the repayment terms.

 

Government overdraft with BoE was extended recently

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/coronavirus-bank-of-england-treasury-ways-means-overdraft-borrowing-a9457071.html

 

To get the economy going in any country
Double national pensions
Pensioners will quickly spend it
Result, the economy gets moving within a few days

Us oldies can spend like there is no tomorrow

 

You sound like our lass, but she's not complained whist I've done a load of decking and sealed both ours and my daughters block paving next door .

 

Has there ever been a more obvious time of the government using the papers to get their messages across? The mail of tomorrow trying to put pressures on the teaching unions to get teachers back to work and not complain “for the national cause”.

We’ve had the austerity leaks over the last day or two testing the mood of the nation for it no doubt.

we had the lockdown leaks on every front page.

 

I can see a ‘covid tax’ coming in. Rather than arbitrary increases in existing taxes, there’ll be a new one, with loads of patriotic fanfare about ‘every one doing their bit’.

 

This is what we have been missing for so long. An opposition leader who can get a government briefing paper an hour beforehand, forensically dissect it and leave windbag Johnson drowning in a pool of his own bluster.
If only the LP had got on with it and had Starmer in place by the end of January. I doubt the government would have gone on a planning holiday for the whole of February with this guy holding them to account.

 

LOL , If you can stay awake long enough to take in what he's trying to say...........hopeless, but harmless...

 

How about capital gains tax on residential property sales?

 

He’s giving the LP back a bit of credibility. Rather listen to him than the waffling buffoon.
Not sure he has the gravitas needed to be a PM, but as a leader of the opposition, he’ll be tearing the CP a new ar5e.

 

Not in our lifetime......

 

Johnson can’t cope at the minute but when the house gets fuller it’s just spoilt by all his bench shouting and laughing whenever he answers. The answer is then lost in all the messing about and he gets by that way.

 

That's the first I've seen if Starmer at work. Have to say I am impressed. Certainly an improvement on a bunch of the previous leaders.
Some of the comments being made on here are cringe worthy and wouldn't look out if place on a Qanon discussion.

 

The stronger that all the main political parties are, the more everyone benefits. So wherever you political leanings lie, a stronger Labour leader is a good thing. He's got a huge job on though. And for all the criticism that the Tories will get over how elements of the Covid crisis has been handled, similar scrutiny should be applied to the poor performance of key shadow government ministers.

 

Not everyone has the attention span of a Trump....sorry, a goldfish.

 

No pay raises for nurses

Valued though says Hancock.

That man is a joke to his party.

 

The self employed grant email came through, processed it today, fair play it will be a help going forward.