Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BlueToff]

You can live on £95 p/w each depending on what bills get temporarily frozen. Easily.

£380 a month is not enough for people to live on.

But yes, if bills are frozen then that'll help.

I'm not on about me here. I'll hopefully have a bit of work to keep me going on top of that.

My bills, as it stands, are around £700 a month. Soon that'll be down a bit because of a loan I pay off which ends in May.

That £380 pays most of my rent. Still got car, phone etc. I can't cut costs as I'm under contract.

 

[dandydan]

Personally I think Father Ted did nothing wrong!

 

[Connor]

You can live on £95 p/w each depending on what bills get temporarily frozen. Easily.

Showing your working Jimbo, this'll be good

 

[tsubaki]

Well Labour need a better leadership team to ensure that doesn't happen.

ah, the "its all Labour's fault" thing again

 

[The binman chronicles]

Fair play that has gone above anything I thought they'd do.

After this all over I bet we are going to hear the word austerity coming back into conversations. This is one hell of a money tree we are shaking.

 

[thirdmantackle]

Every pub needs to be drunk dry by closing

 

[BlueToff]

ah, the "its all Labour's fault" thing again

No not at all.

It's Labour's fault they gave the Tories a massive majority last December, yes.

This isn't their fault at all. I just want both parties to work together.

 

[Agent Blue]

Are the Conservative Party that skint that that they have to steal a lecturn from the Labour Party?

 

[Amw79]

Interesting that a few weeks ago, the professions which the government said were “low skilled”, and we didn’t want any forins coming in doing those jobs, are now “key workers“ without whom the country would collapse.

Not really a criticism of the government, but more a point that when the chips are down - the people who look after the sick, provide care, drive lorries and stack shelves are the ones we really cannot do without.

 

[Tramps_mate]

Big queue at the Offie

I just went Tesco and all the ales been 'panic' bought...

 

[Paris]

Interesting that a few weeks ago, the professions which the government said were “low skilled”, and we didn’t want any forins coming in doing those jobs, are now “key workers“ without whom the country would collapse.

Not really a criticism of the government, but more a point that when the chips are down - the people who look after the sick, provide care, drive lorries and stack shelves are the ones we really cannot do without.

These people are our backbone. Without them we'd collapse far worse than any of those cockney wide-boys in the banking sector that Gordon Brown bailed out.

 

[royalblue66]

I just went Tesco and all the ales been 'panic' bought...

Any measures in place for alcoholics ? asking for a friend.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

People can't put their political allegiances aside mate.

Labour need to start supporting now and stop whinging. I've got nothing against an opposition party pushing the government but now its time for them all to get a grip and work through this.

NHS and social care has been wound down for 10 years, Tories have constantly been warned about being caught out by a flu epidemic, by chance health professionals have been good enough to get the right vaccination out. However, here we are with a new virus with very much the same effect as Flu epidemic on the NHS. This is the Tory myopia.

Putting aside convient partisan fact on ideology, Johnson is sadly lacking any kind of credible leadership skills. It's a worry when his advisors and minister's are able to communicate a better message. He is not a leader by any stretch!

 

[roydo]

Fair play that has gone above anything I thought they'd do.

After this all over I bet we are going to hear the word austerity coming back into conversations. This is one hell of a money tree we are shaking.

I guess a government, like people, sometimes have to play the cards they are dealt. In normal times, nothing like this amount of cash would have been pledged, but we are where we are. Political dogma flies out of the window.

And there will be thousands of folk who would have been dealt a curve ball in their life, that they can either face and deal with. Or not.

 

[BlueToff]

NHS and social care has been wound down for 10 years, Tories have constantly been warned about being caught out by a flu epidemic, by chance health professionals have been good enough to get the right vaccination out. However, here we are with a new virus with very much the same effect as Flu epidemic on the NHS. This is the Tory myopia.
Johnson is sadly lacking any kind of credible leadership skills. It's a worry when his advisors and minister's are able to communicate a better message.

Yet Corbyn couldn't beat him or May and get a Labour gov in power.

Anyway, on your first point, I agree. 10 years of cuts has left us even more vulnerable to something like this.

Ironically, those 10 years of cuts are allowing all this money to be pumped in.