While I appreciate the point you’re making, I’m pretty sure our civil liberties were far more curtailed during WWI and WWII.
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While I appreciate the point you’re making, I’m pretty sure our civil liberties were far more curtailed during WWI and WWII.
peteblue
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We all derive ideas and beliefs from our personal experiences. Being in an ICU and realising just how close to death you have been is a sobering thought and reflects into your personality afterwards. From my own personal experience......
He’s underperformed there.
peteblue
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Is he currently doing you any harm ? ......
Half of my company is being furloughed today. They're a global business traditionally seen as strong financially. This crisis has hit hard.
This economic situation is only going to get worse.
This economic situation is only going to get worse.
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His whole career has been aimed at doing people like me harm.
It'll happen a lot even in strong financially stable businesses IMO because it's just so much simpler for businesses to piggyback off the goverment.
Like the conglomerate that owns my company can keep us all going through this for sure but reckon most of us will get furloughed just because it's easier for them.
That's the hope, first of all that he survives along with every other poor bugger getting the rough end of the virus, but after that he has some kind of dickensian epiphany and realises the error of his ways. If this doesn't do it nothing will, but I've always believed no one is ever beyond redemption
I don't like him. But that doesn't mean people should want anyone to die.
There's a lot of hyperbole about him but he isn't evil, ffs. He's not a good bloke. I don't particularly want him in charge of the country (though right now I'd very much rather have him over Raab for example).
My worry doesn't really come from the man himself. It's the fact that having a PM die midway through the biggest crisis in what, 70 years, isn't exactly good.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
I remember Cameron and his experiences with the NHS with his Young son, these things stick with you and give you another view of life. The same will happen with Boris. There is no substitution for personal experience.......
It does hit even harder that some people are left with nothing too.
Not even blaming the government here. They had to do something in terms of trying to ensure even more people don't lose jobs.
It's just that, like you said, it leaves it open to be taken advantage of by companies who could easily afford to not to do so.
peteblue
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That‘s my point really.....
LFC being the latest example of a company using it. I would have thought though, or hoped, that there'd be the means in the gov to work out who actually is just abusing it.
What is wrong with these senior people?
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Coronavirus: NZ health minister breaks lockdown at beach
David Clark called himself an "idiot" after admitting to clear breaches of the New Zealand lockdown.
www.bbc.co.uk
Without being conspiratorial or ranting it’s worth noting how easily a democratic society slips into control where movement is restricted and if you aren’t doing valuable work including making and delivering cocktails or pizzas you are told to stay at home , the state lies to us on a daily basis , where posters on here advocate testing vaccines on prisoners or the imposition of martial law and where we’re told now isn’t the time to question decisions .
I totally understand the lockdown decision and I accept it was made for the good of the country , I’m merely saying it illustrates in different circumstances with a different ‘enemy ‘ how easily we can all be nudged along .
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