Hi all
I've just joined this forum as I really need some help and advice. Back in 2016/17 I was given (very bad) advice and joined an umbrella company who a few of my colleagues were also with and the company advised everything was above board and it was just another way to get paid. ...
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Getting desperate - HMRC Loan Scheme
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Slightly technical post on Git
Fair warning, whatever your views it looks like you may have to start renaming your master branches in Git.
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Imminent Tax DOOM
“ Mr Hodges says the figures show a broad increase for all taxpayers will be needed to raise significant funds. He speculates the chancellor could add 1 per cent for basic rate payers, scaling this up to 3 and 5 per cent for higher and additional rate payers (creating new rates of 21, 43 and 50 per... -
7.5 million jobs furloughed
UK furlough scheme extended until end of October | Sharecast.com
If you include the public sector, the State is now paying the wages of well over half the working population.
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Is this really our plan?
Just taking a step back and looking at the basics of where we're going with the lockdown, what we're trying to do, what we want, etc.
Boris has confused the nation on Sunday and is still struggling to explain it all, and what it all means.
However, 'Getting the R down' to control... -
To paraphrase Spike Milligan
"a man called Johnson who did Prime Minister impressions spoke on the television” -
Boris couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
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Trade Talks to start
Should be interesting: UK-U.S. trade talks to start on Tuesday - Reuters
The follow-up Brexit talks are going crap so prepare to suck up to the swamp in DC -
Project Fear 3.0
UK unemployment to double and economy to shrink by 25%, warns Bank of England | Business | The Guardian
The Remoaner gloomsters in the BoE just won't give up trying to talk the country into a depression.
Brexit has been got done and now the country can enjoy the economic sunlit... -
Covid-19: British death toll now highest in Europe
Remember folks. The glorious leader is going to send this virus packing and boosterise the economy.Covid-19: British death toll now highest in Europe -
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Where did it all go wrong?
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Real UK death rate is much larger than official figures
According to this, which suggests 47,000 dead. It takes into account non-Covid deaths that are caused by Covid (e.g. cancer pats who are not treated or stroke patients who are afraid to go to hospital and die). The data suggests these non-Covid excess deaths are quite a substantial proportion of the...Last edited by sasguru; 30 April 2020, 11:46. -
Old Greg started a topic Smug Metropolitan Elitist Remoaner Gloomster talking the country into a pandemicin GeneralSmug Metropolitan Elitist Remoaner Gloomster talking the country into a pandemic
Death to the SMERGs! Support the Supreme Leader!
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Britain's most important key worker
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/nigel-farage-flouts-coronavirus-rules-to-film-migrant-rant-1-6630177
I just bet he has the recipe for the vaccine too along with all the answers on how to fix the problems, just waiting for his best mate to call... -
Old Greg started a topic Inquests into NHS staff coronavirus deaths told not to look at PPE shortagesin GeneralInquests into NHS staff coronavirus deaths told not to look at PPE shortages
Exclusive: inquests into NHS staff coronavirus deaths told not to look at PPE shortages | Society | The Guardian
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Germany buying flu vaccines in bulk
Germany buys extra flu jabs to avoid double hit to healthcare | The Star Online
Why? To stop their health system being overwhelmed in a 2nd wave of Covid if it coincides with the flu season.
The idea being that by vaccinating as many people as possible they reduce the flu burden....Last edited by sasguru; 29 April 2020, 16:28. -
Revealed: the inside story of the UK's Covid-19 crisis
You won. Get over it.
Revealed: the inside story of the UK's Covid-19 crisis | World news | The Guardian... -
11K per week extra dead than average
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Tale of Two Economies Will Determine Post-Lockdown Growth
"The restart of the world economy risks going ahead without a key ingredient: the consumer."
Interesting report from Bloomberg:
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Covid-19 gone from New Zealand
Coronavirus: New Zealand claims no community cases as lockdown eases - BBC News
That's how it's done Boris!
No new cases and 19 dead in total.
I'm sure we are comparing like for like
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Ask Boris...
Go on, you know you want to: Ask a question at the next coronavirus press conference - GOV.UK -
FFS how hard is it
“ But the government website closed to new applicants within hours of the Friday launch, after 46,000 people tried to access it.
Home testing kits became unavailable less than 15 minutes after bookings reopened on Saturday morning.
Some 16,000 bookings were made.
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Finally a solution - ‘Covid-secure’ offices to get Britain back to work
“ A Treasury proposal to “get Britain back to work” includes plans to ensure that offices and workplaces are free from coronavirus. Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, is drawing up measures to allow non-essential businesses to reopen in a “safe and practical way”.
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WHO says recovery from Covid may not prevent reinfection
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ction-who-says
I'm going back to work on Monday after > 1 month off. Luckily remote.
The only other person I know who had it (and confirmed... -
Is a an economic depression coming?
Toying with cretins on another thread and I thought what's going to happen to them if a great depression is on the cards as some economists think.
Not going to be pretty is it?
5 Economists Who Say This Recession Will Be the Next Great Depression
However there will be... -
Chaos as Corona virus test site for key workers closes after a few hours
Coronavirus: Test website closes after 'significant demand' - BBC News
The words "couldn't", "pissup" and "brewery" come to mind.
Meanwhile about 100 NHS staff have died from Covid:
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Who are SAGE?
Is it in fact the ERG: The Secretive Group Guiding the U.K. on Coronavirus - The New York Times -
Sit Back and Relax. We're Here for at least a Year
There is an "incredibly small" chance of having a highly effective vaccine or treatment for the coronavirus within the next year, England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said today.
"Until we have highly effective vaccines and/or highly effective drugs - and the probability... -
UK official COVID death figure is hugely underestimated ...
... according to this research that brings in ONS figures:
UK coronavirus deaths more than double official figure according to FT study | Free to read | Financial Times
Shocking how many are dying in care homes and at home.
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Shocking, totally unexpected surprise
“ Government will not commit to a public inquiry on coronavirus response
Dominic Raab has said that he would not commit to holding a public inquiry into the government's handling of the coronavirus epidemic.
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The end of (extreme) right wingers
We've got the cretins in the USA against a lockdown, especially those with their guns, what are they going to do, shoot the virus? Then there are people like Trump, Bolsonaro, Erdogan, etc who think it's all a joke and last weekend we had the right wing German extremists out in Berlin: Kritik an Corona-Massnahmen:... -
Second Wave
“ There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through,” CDC Director Robert Redfield said in an interview with The Washington Post. “And when I’ve said this to others, they kind of put their head... -
Digital contact tracing will fail unless privacy is respected, experts warn
Digital contact tracing will fail unless governments build the technology in a way that respects user privacy, a group of “nearly 300 experts have warned.
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More good news
Just in case any of you gloomsters are feeling smug, Michael Gove has confirmed that the UK will meet its 10,000 tests per day by the end of April target. So put that in yer pipe and smoke it. -
Self Sufficiency
This is the new mantra, Britain should move all the badly paid jobs back and move people from highly paid "cushy" office jobs providing services in a globalised market to working 12 hour days to churn out PPE for the NHS.
I have a feeling this won't work
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Belgium and UK have the highest COVID case fatality rates (CFR)
Yes I know the data is incomplete and things will come out in the wash, but its already clear that Germany, for example, will never be close.
It's also worth noting that Belgium includes community deaths as well, but the UK is only counting hospital deaths.
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Coronavirus: Lack of political leader leaves scientists in charge, say Tories
Coronavirus: Lack of political leader leaves scientists in charge, say Tories | News | The Times
Oh wow, what would those scientists know that Tories don’t?
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Lack of demand
“ The UK government says it now has the capacity to carry out 35,000 coronavirus tests a day.
Earlier this month, England's Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, set a target of reaching 100,000 tests a day by the end of the month.
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How a leader should lead (HEALTH WARNING: BR14 TRIGGER)
Compare and contrast with Trump or Bojo.
But then Merkel is generally brainy and not a horrible AND dim rich boy.
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Is Matt Hancock out of his depth? (HEALTH WARNING: BR14 TRIGGER)
This made I laff (Needs sound):
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Where are Dyson's ventilators? (HEALTH WARNING: BR14 TRIGGER)
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Impending house price crash
“ The economic situation will hit renters the hardest, the very people who landlords make their money from. A survey of renters in the Guardian found that one in five had been forced to choose between food and bills or paying rent, while six in 10 said they had suffered financially due to the shutdown.... -
Ways to beat coronavirus after lockdown
“ Minimum spends could be brought in at shops to discourage short, frequent visits, and shopping trips could be allocated based on the first letter of people's surnames, the study says. People could bring their own tools, such as tongs, to pick up shopping, and use probes to press PIN numbers or use... -
UK expected to miss 100,000 a day virus testing target
“ Ambition of reaching figure within next fortnight seen as ‘political’ by some experts
Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, described the 100,000 figure as a “political target rather than one grounded in a testing strategy or in what was... -
Unemployment in the UK
If unemployment levels are currently reaching an all time high, then why did a plane arrive at Stanstead today with 180 Romanians on it to pick fruit, and another 5 planes coming? What will happen next year after a 'no deal' Brexit and the points based immigration system comes into place? -
China lies
So China supposedly lies about death count.
And so is Germany then and especially South Korea....
