Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Division is being sown everywhere at the moment. It's difficult not to start pinning blame on groups of people when the cases just keep on rising. We had it with (forgive me) "BAME" communities, the students, the ravers, north/south. I live in a small village in North Wales and from what I can make out everyone is following the rules. Just yesterday in the local tescos everyone had masks on and were social distancing. In walks a scouse couple without masks seemingly not giving a toss. Was everyone in the shop pissed off? Yes obviously, but it ain't no bloody Welsh/English thing. The clues in the name.. Global pandemic.
All of this is people, and probably more so internet people.

In the real world I doubt there is many going around holding a grudge or blame against people from another place in that respect like you see on here and probably many other forums.

We have people who sit / work at home dictating to others on how they should act, think and all the rest of it.

It's just the internet man, the place where reality doesn't exist and all your craziest worries can thrive
 
Are Labour an effective opposition?

Up until Kier was made leader I was a party member and I'm embarrassed by their opposition during this crisis. Johnson can get away with absolutely any measure, even if they don't make sense as labour just abstain or even support the measures.
 
Are Labour an effective opposition?

Up until Kier was made leader I was a party member and I'm embarrassed by their opposition during this crisis. Johnson can get away with absolutely any measure, even if they don't make sense as labour just abstain or even support the measures.

I appreciate its politics, but for me it should always be vote for something or vote against it, not this abstention nonsense.....
 
So now Debenhams are going bang.

Arcadia plus Debenhams, 27,000 jobs down the pan.

Meanwhile we're in the middle of a housing market boom, which I find quite incredible. Surely this is all going to go horribly wrong next year.

Retail is starting to become a complete monopoly. Amazon are going to run the whole industry in 5 years time which is a disgrace.
 
Green has been planning this for a while.

He shut all the small shops around the country because he didn’t want to pay the rent wanting to keep the big stores open. The virus has probably accelerated this but they were all going to shut within the year anyway.

Any store now that doesn’t embrace the online market will be toast.

Asos has that budget clothing market sewn up.
 
The virus has accelerated trends for sure. Don’t underestimate the Amazon backlash though. Plenty people I know boycott it. I’ll try not to use it when possible (affordable)
Yeah, direct and local procurement seems absent from this debate.

High street/retail parks have always been poo in the main imo. Besides, it's the long term rent seeking that's killing these places.
 
Yeah, direct and local procurement seems absent from this debate.

High street/retail parks have always been poo in the main imo. Besides, it's the long term rent seeking that's killing these places.
I don’t think I have ever visited a Debenhams. Don’t even know exactly what they are. Same as the financial crash when woolworths went, failing businesses will go under quick.
Horrible for the workers and their families to lose their jobs, at this time of year especially.
 
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