When will this shit end?

[stuie]

5 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

But casual hookups are out for the time being. 

Even if you take precautions.... 😂😂

 

[squirrelarmy]

20 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

what you and Mr Squirrelarmy (Or Mrs of course

You’d find out if you came to a virtual meet. 
 

Although we have had a mysterious masked up attendee in the past. 

[ace56blaa]

So Rishi's on in a bit. 
He's gone from a promising voice at the beginning of lockdown, to one of the most grating of them all in my opinion. 
He released the first furlough scheme and from then on has only bragged and boasted about how much money the government have spent to help us. Though his priorities have always been with the businesses themselves and not retaining jobs as he has refused to address huge gaps in the furlough scheme. Don't get me started on how eat out to help out probably is responsible for this second spike and a lot of my friends worst months in work in the hospitality sector, due to busy nights and rude customers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54272938

Early reports from his new plan, seem to suggest a wage subsidy, meaning only extra help for those businesses that are already open or can open before furlough ends, paying parts of workers wage, if they are employed with a lot lower hours than usual. It doesn't seem like any plan to help the excluded or the self employed as of yet, but if it's like last time, he will try giving the bare minimum help until theres enough backlash and then maybe still ignore it. 

I want Rishi to surprise us today and announce some new plan that will actually help people, rather than just encourage businesses to stay open, while they feasibly can't. 

Also seems he is doing more loans. Like are you fucking kidding me, we are beyond loans at this point. 

We'll see I guess

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

You’d find out if you came to a virtual meet. 
 

Although we have had a mysterious masked up attendee in the past. 

And me at the last one for early logins ... I was in my flashing skull mask ... to confuse a couple of people .... 

[Crazyfool01]

Just turned on to bbc parliament to hear JRM saying someone is out of touch .... !!   

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

45 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

If you want a more detailed breakdown of cases in your council area then this will help:

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=47574f7a6e454dc6a42c5f6912ed7076
It’s linked from the Gov site so it’s legit. 

That's MSOA level and is I believe the lowest level that the test result data is shared with the wider public. 

Unless it's changed in the last 3 weeks it was still only available to local authorities at a postcode level which isn't as useful as all that...

 

 

[Ayrshire Chris]

13 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Just turned on to bbc parliament to hear JRM saying someone is out of touch .... !!   

Yes, havnt you heard? upper class privilege for the few and Dickensian poverty for the many  is to be the new normal

Edited September 24, 2020 by Ayrshire Chris

[Ayrshire Chris]

Hope the Scottish and English apps are compatible

Edited September 24, 2020 by Ayrshire Chris

[zahidf]

30 minutes ago, ace56blaa said:

So Rishi's on in a bit. 
He's gone from a promising voice at the beginning of lockdown, to one of the most grating of them all in my opinion. 
He released the first furlough scheme and from then on has only bragged and boasted about how much money the government have spent to help us. Though his priorities have always been with the businesses themselves and not retaining jobs as he has refused to address huge gaps in the furlough scheme. Don't get me started on how eat out to help out probably is responsible for this second spike and a lot of my friends worst months in work in the hospitality sector, due to busy nights and rude customers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54272938

Early reports from his new plan, seem to suggest a wage subsidy, meaning only extra help for those businesses that are already open or can open before furlough ends, paying parts of workers wage, if they are employed with a lot lower hours than usual. It doesn't seem like any plan to help the excluded or the self employed as of yet, but if it's like last time, he will try giving the bare minimum help until theres enough backlash and then maybe still ignore it. 

I want Rishi to surprise us today and announce some new plan that will actually help people, rather than just encourage businesses to stay open, while they feasibly can't. 

Also seems he is doing more loans. Like are you fucking kidding me, we are beyond loans at this point. 

We'll see I guess

Union and CBI seems to be on board

 

CBI and TUC bosses join Sunak for photocall ahead of winter economy plan announcement

On budget day it’s traditional for the chancellor to pose for a photograph outside No 11 with his red box and his Treasury team. There is no red box today, but there does seem to be a winter economy plan document, which Rishi Sunak was holding when he had his picture taken in Downing Street a few minutes ago.

Much more interesting was his decision to stage the photocall with Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the TUC, and Carolyn Fairbairn, director general of the CBI. The Treasury has been consulting both organisations ahead of today’s announcement. That in itself is not particularly unusual, but to get both of them to sign up to pre-announcement endorsement-by-photocall is striking.

 

He also has an afternoon press conference

[zahidf]

 

[mcshed]

8 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Hope the Scottish and English apps are compatible

They aren't according to the Beeb:

"What if users travel to Scotland or Northern Ireland, which have their own apps?

Apple and Google's framework will not allow two apps to contact trace simultaneously.

So when users cross the border, they need to open the local app and turn on contact tracing within it.

This will bring up a prompt asking: "Switch app for exposure notifications?"

Doing so, will turn off the one they were using beforehand."

Which is of course fucking stupid and I'm not sure which administration is to blame.

[ace56blaa]

10 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Union and CBI seems to be on board

 

CBI and TUC bosses join Sunak for photocall ahead of winter economy plan announcement

On budget day it’s traditional for the chancellor to pose for a photograph outside No 11 with his red box and his Treasury team. There is no red box today, but there does seem to be a winter economy plan document, which Rishi Sunak was holding when he had his picture taken in Downing Street a few minutes ago.

Much more interesting was his decision to stage the photocall with Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the TUC, and Carolyn Fairbairn, director general of the CBI. The Treasury has been consulting both organisations ahead of today’s announcement. That in itself is not particularly unusual, but to get both of them to sign up to pre-announcement endorsement-by-photocall is striking.

 

He also has an afternoon press conference

Sounds promising. though i dont hold out hope 

[JoeyT]

3 minutes ago, mcshed said:

They aren't according to the Beeb:

"What if users travel to Scotland or Northern Ireland, which have their own apps?

Apple and Google's framework will not allow two apps to contact trace simultaneously.

So when users cross the border, they need to open the local app and turn on contact tracing within it.

This will bring up a prompt asking: "Switch app for exposure notifications?"

Doing so, will turn off the one they were using beforehand."

Which is of course fucking stupid and I'm not sure which administration is to blame.

Knowing our Government it'll be us the users who are to blame!

Edited September 24, 2020 by JoeyT

[stuartbert two hats]

1 hour ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

Matty Cockblock getting really tied up* in knots on sky news this morning with Kay Burley on the question of established relationships.

 

* Not in a BDSM way. That’s illegal now. 

Not if you live in the same household it's not.

[eFestivals]

sniffing works.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/close-to-100-accuracy-airport-enlists-sniffer-dogs-to-test-for-covid-19

[Crazyfool01]

Will it be Santa Sunak then ? 

[ace56blaa]

Cant wait for rishis ten minute build up of kissing his own ass before he gets to the point. 

[Ayrshire Chris]

7 minutes ago, mcshed said:

They aren't according to the Beeb:

"What if users travel to Scotland or Northern Ireland, which have their own apps?

Apple and Google's framework will not allow two apps to contact trace simultaneously.

So when users cross the border, they need to open the local app and turn on contact tracing within it.

This will bring up a prompt asking: "Switch app for exposure notifications?"

Doing so, will turn off the one they were using beforehand."

Which is of course fucking stupid and I'm not sure which administration is to blame.

Probably the Scottish one, which I’ve got,  screams out the warning ‘ get yourself back across the border ya bastard right now’  if I dare cross into England 😉

[SwedgeAntilles]

7 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

sniffing works.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/close-to-100-accuracy-airport-enlists-sniffer-dogs-to-test-for-covid-19

Dog really are the greatest. We don't deserve them.

[Crazyfool01]

Sounds like the furlough is still going ... gonna get a rename ... furlough 2 ? 

[SwedgeAntilles]

2 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Sounds like the furlough is still going ... gonna get a rename ... furlough 2 ? 

The Final Furlough

[eFestivals]

Just now, SwedgeAntilles said:

The Final Furlough

sounds like it works for me!

[eFestivals]

and it sounds like it should work for most other people too.

[ace56blaa]

This is so shit so far. -  Doesn't help anyone in industries that cannot open at the moment. Not viable businesses, as in the whole of arts, theatre, cinemas, hospitality. All the excluded don't get a thing. It's been 6 months with no income for so many. and there are not jobs 

This is ridiculous, again putting all the power of employment in the hands of the employer, There's no reason for some businesses to keep  

SHITTTTTTTTTTT

[Matt42]

I support this but I can see the sun and daily mail headlines already. If addicted to furlough wasn’t cancerous enough!