Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Nymzee]

Just been told I'm on furlough from Monday.

FFS. Best get on to the bloody mortgage company then.

Not great news mate but you're also guaranteed a fairly decent income for up to 3 months so it's not all bad?

 

[Nymzee]

Can't argue with that. Except the redundancy bit as I think I'll be due about 30k if that happens. I don't particularly want to go but that would soften the blow and better than going down to 80%.

Best case is furloughed till they give up and give you reduncancy pay on top.

 

[Sentinel]

Is anybody going to answer the question? Why is a coalition government such a bad idea to deal with this crisis.

 

[Kenshin]

How come they won't be? I thought it would be in the best interests of most companies to temporarily lay off most of their staff and just let the gov foot the bill?

Like I'm personally expecting to be furloughed this/next week as I'm a project planner and all the projects are on pause indefinitely.

Sadly not how the NHS works , they will keep us there regardless. The management above my head won't allow the staff to go home at any point even if the entire network went down so they couldn't work.

I'm hoping that they enforce forced holiday instead on the staff to at least reduce numbers. Probably wont affect me as I'll have to run the place effectively but at least get some of the staff home and safe.

 

[Blue 1]

It’s much better than being told you are being sacked, released, made redundant, etc ......

Not great news mate but you're also guaranteed a fairly decent income for up to 3 months so it's not all bad?

Aye it's not the end of the world but it's gonna kill me financially if I can't get a mortgage break.

 

[Tea_drinker]

Is anybody going to answer the question? Why is a coalition government such a bad idea to deal with this crisis.

Why constantly put faith and trust in ANY politicians? None of them have any profound wisdom or exceptional knowledge. They just joined a gang that they claim to have loose philosophical connections too.

 

[Nymzee]

Aye it's not the end of the world but it's gonna kill me financially if I can't get a mortgage break.

My parents got their 3 month mortgage break sorted this week.

 

[orchard]

Not a couple of times, she was even told during the election not to do interviews.

Did she hide in a 'fridge?

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Aye it's not the end of the world but it's gonna kill me financially if I can't get a mortgage break.

I'm sure I read somewhere that part of the guidelines the government has put out there is that mortgage lenders have to give you a break.

 

[Blue 1]

I'm sure I read somewhere that part of the guidelines the government has put out there is that mortgage lenders have to give you a break.

Well, I'll find out on Monday. I'll let you know lol

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Well, I'll find out on Monday. I'll let you know lol

Fingers well and truly crossed for you mate (and for everyone else in the same situation)

 

[Zezti]

 

[The binman chronicles]

Aye it's not the end of the world but it's gonna kill me financially if I can't get a mortgage break.

It will probably mean your payments go up at the end of it so it might be better to negotiate paying 80% of what you usually do to minimise those increases. Especially if you were running tight beforehand.

 

[xena]

They've acted mate and on both sides of the pond their response has been disastrous. Is it absurd to suggest that maybe cross party or bi-partisanship coordination might be the answer here?

Just think back to brexit they were like a bunch of infants fighting with each wouldn't trust any of them to organize a piss up in a pub .

 

[peteblue]

Here we go.....

PHE organisation. So identify who is in charge of setting up the testing programme....

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Hidden amongst all the Professors and Dr’s, I’m assuming it‘s Adrian Masters or Paul Sutton......