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Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 4:40 pm
by integrale_evo
Trump suggesting the US is near the peak of the curve
We're probably still not at our peak and they're at least a week behind us!
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 4:43 pm
by Swervin_Mervin
Broccers wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 3:57 pm
Jobbo wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 3:36 pm
Our small business grant from the local authority is apparently being transferred today, for anyone who thought that it may take a while. Get on and claim it if you are eligible.
Do you have to pay it back or is it just a free 10 grand?
Everyone will pay it back. But the company doesn't have to pay it back direct no.
Ours should be this week apparently but no sign yet
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 5:03 pm
by Jobbo
Broccers wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 3:57 pm
Jobbo wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 3:36 pm
Our small business grant from the local authority is apparently being transferred today, for anyone who thought that it may take a while. Get on and claim it if you are eligible.
Do you have to pay it back or is it just a free 10 grand?
It's a grant; there's no clawback so long as you satisfy the conditions to claim it. It's not going to make up for the tax hit to pay back the £40 billion which the furlough scheme is costing the exchequer, but cashflow now is probably the important thing.
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 5:04 pm
by duncs500
Just been furloughed. Allegedly the company are going to top up to the original 75% pay cut. They bloody better!
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 5:50 pm
by Zonda_
I've been furloughed from a supply company I stopped working for last month! According to their email it goes from the 28th Feb and even though I've started a new job I'm still entitled to it. Read the email 3 times to make sure.
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 5:51 pm
by DaveE
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Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:09 am
by unzippy
Swervin_Mervin wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:30 am
duncs500 wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:17 am
There's just as much chance that China will come out of this crisis first (already is), and get a headstart and a bigger manufacturing foothold. I'm not sure I see much liklihood that we'll rely on China less after this.
Our relationship with China won't change one bit.
Firstly, most people have short memories. Secondly, everyone loves a bargain. And lastly, most people underestimate just how intertwined we have become with them, not just from consumer products perspective but across many, many industries including strategic construction projects and developments.
Aye, don't they own Africa now, what with all the roads and railways they put in?
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 8:10 am
by Mito Man
Road and Belt scheme, third world countries getting more broke because of it.
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 9:20 am
by V8Granite
unzippy wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:09 am
Swervin_Mervin wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:30 am
duncs500 wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:17 am
There's just as much chance that China will come out of this crisis first (already is), and get a headstart and a bigger manufacturing foothold. I'm not sure I see much liklihood that we'll rely on China less after this.
Our relationship with China won't change one bit.
Firstly, most people have short memories. Secondly, everyone loves a bargain. And lastly, most people underestimate just how intertwined we have become with them, not just from consumer products perspective but across many, many industries including strategic construction projects and developments.
Aye, don't they own Africa now, what with all the roads and railways they put in?
The ones built by prisoners and where they burn down villages and kill large groups of animals, yep that’s the ones.
Some of the work practices they do are scary and they are hellish to deal with.
Dave!
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:20 am
by jamcg
Zonda_ wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 5:50 pm
I've been furloughed from a supply company I stopped working for last month! According to their email it goes from the 28th Feb and even though I've started a new job I'm still entitled to it. Read the email 3 times to make sure.
Read an article on bbc that was about this. Apparently people are being encouraged by some mp’s to approach former employers to see if they can put them into the furlough scheme like yours appears to have done
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:52 am
by Orange Cola
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:05 am
by Ascender
Holy shit. That's properly insane. Brace yourself for the idiots this Easter weekend then....
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:07 am
by Simon
I think transgressors should be shot on site. No second chances. We need to be doing Darwin's work for him.
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:11 am
by mik
Went out on the bike earlier.....
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:15 am
by integrale_evo
Shame the stupid cunts can't all be locked up together and let their immune systems battle it out without risk of passing it on to anyone else.
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 12:39 pm
by Simon
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:18 pm
by duncs500
These stats are annoying. They're giving 765 'new' deaths in England, but apparently only 140 occurred yesterday, the rest seem to be scattered around March and April. It's difficult to compare.
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:19 pm
by nuttinnew
Manc
More than likely far too much everywhere though, it just hasn't been reported like that.
I'm sure I heard an ice cream van earlier...
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:33 pm
by Explosive Newt
duncs500 wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:18 pm
These stats are annoying. They're giving 765 'new' deaths in England, but apparently only 140 occurred yesterday, the rest seem to be scattered around March and April. It's difficult to compare.
They're very hard to interpret - there is always a dip at the weekends because reporting goes down then a bump on Mon/Tues as weekend deaths go into the system. I think you have to look at a week's average to make any sense of it.
Re: Coronavirus
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:36 pm
by Ascender
nuttinnew wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:19 pm
Manc
More than likely far too much everywhere though, it just hasn't been reported like that.
I'm sure I heard an ice cream van earlier...
To be fair, an ice cream van!!!!!
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We're probably still not at our peak and they're at least a week behind us!