Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (21 Viewers)

[chiefdave]

The government needs to make it more attractive for self employed people to.stay home. A full weeks pay or ssp isn't a battle the right thing will win.

To be honest I'm still not entirely sure about the 80% thing they announced for salaried employees.

It seems to only apply if you still have a job. ie: your employer can claim back 80% of your salary. But if they decide they don't want to pay the 20% it seems like you're in the same situation as someone unemployed.

 

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[BackRoomRummermill]

Did you not realise that buying an oversized tea mug is considered an essential purchase?

you forgot the golf umbrella!

 

[Ring Of Steel]

We are good at social media when it means winning elections, it appears we’re not so hot at social media when it comes to saving thousands of lives.

 

[ccfc1234]

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Just got in- is it full lockdown?

Lockdown lite would sum it up!!

 

[fellatio_Martinez]

Did you not realise that buying an oversized tea mug is considered an essential purchase?

No house is complete without one.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Yikes MOT due with testing stations closed!! Anyone know if there's a plan for this?

Yep talk of temporary certificates

 

[BackRoomRummermill]

Boris Johnson - the man who finally ended the dfs sale

 

[standupforcity]

Yep talk of temporary certificates

What extensions do you mean?

 

[Ring Of Steel]

look at the state of this twat

 

[Otis]

Boris Johnson - the man who finally ended the dfs sale

Boris Johnson, the man who shut down Gregg's without even buying anything.

(That works because I am saying he is a fat git and would normally eat everything in the store)

 

[David O'Day]

Did you not realise that buying an oversized tea mug is considered an essential purchase?

What else am I going to throw at the wall when I get cabin fever

 

[Otis]

look at the state of this twat

Is it made from chlorinated chicken?

 

[The coventrian]

Beg your pardon? Work-wise you mean?

Yes. Back home now.

 

[Liquid Gold]

look at the state of this twat

The worst part is the comments with thousands upon thousands of idiots lapping up whatever he says.

 

[tisza]

Yikes MOT due with testing stations closed!! Anyone know if there's a plan for this?

Here garage workshops open but also MOTs etc. been extended to within 15 days of state of emergency officially ending.

 

[Liquid Gold]

Yes. Back home now.

Why do you bore everyone with your life story all the time?

 

[Nick]

The whole keyworker thing could be applied to pretty much most people if they wanted it to, surely?

 

[David O'Day]

Lads it's okay, if Boris goes down it's Raab in charge

 

[chiefdave]

Just saw that Sports Direct is staying open, surprise surprise!!

Put it in a quote as its long but I'm speechless. He's basically declared Sports Direct an essential service.

 

[Walsgrave]

This 'essential worker thing' is going to really cause these stubborn frauds who make a living out of people's misery to question themselves. Sportsdirect being a case in point, but plenty of people who have pointless jobs resulting from unfettered capitalism will try and stick up for themselves and justify their parasitic existence.

 

[PVA]

look at the state of this twat

Someone in the US has died after taking that drug to try and cure their Covid infection.

 

[hill83]

This 'essential worker thing' is going to really cause these stubborn frauds who make a living out of people's misery to question themselves. Sportsdirect being a case in point, but plenty of people who have pointless jobs resulting from unfettered capitalism will try and stick up for themselves and justify their parasitic existence.

I mean. I work in the pharmaceutical industry (in IT) and I’ve been classed as a key worker, but work is work. And arguably no job is pointless. I couldn’t give a shit what industry I work in.

 

[rob9872]

Can anyone explain the 80% wages to a dummy like me? Is it net or gross? Is it 80% of a maximum 2500 eg 2000 or can 2500 be 80% eg of 3125. Also if you earnt 45k and normalky come out around 2709 would you still get 2500 take home?

 

[usskyblue]

There are 327 million people in the US. They’ve only tested 313,000 ...and so far have 41,000 cases and 520 deaths

And Trump wants to open for business in 15 days..

 

[Walsgrave]

I mean. I work in the pharmaceutical industry (in IT) and I’ve been classed as a key worker, but work is work. And arguably no job is pointless. I couldn’t give a shit what industry I work in.

Agreed, I was just using sportsdirect as a hyperbole. I don't have any problem with sportsdirect being open and in existence in normal circumstances, but they're putting profits before wellbeing when they're clearly not an essential service. Which is why I'm annoyed at such places trying to justify their continued opening.

 

[David O'Day]

Trump is ruling out extending social distancing measures for more than few weeks

 

[hill83]

Agreed, I was just using sportsdirect as a hyperbole. I don't have any problem with sportsdirect being open and in existence in normal circumstances, but they're putting profits before wellbeing when they're clearly not an essential service. Which is why I'm annoyed at such places trying to justify their continued opening.

Ah I misunderstood. I thought you were having a pop at the individuals.

 

[chiefdave]

Can anyone explain the 80% wages to a dummy like me? Is it net or gross? Is it 80% of a maximum 2500 eg 2000 or can 2500 be 80% eg of 3125. Also if you earnt 45k and normalky come out around 2709 would you still get 2500 take home?

Not a clue, its not clear on the government site, "HMRC will reimburse 80% of furloughed workers wage costs".

Under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, all UK employers will be able to access support to continue paying part of their employees’ salary for those employees that would otherwise have been laid off during this crisis.

Eligibility
All UK businesses are eligible.

How to access the scheme
You will need to:

• designate affected employees as ‘furloughed workers,’ and notify your employees of this change - changing the status of employees remains subject to existing employment law and, depending on the employment contract, may be subject to negotiation
• submit information to HMRC about the employees that have been furloughed and their earnings through a new online portal (HMRC will set out further details on the information required)

HMRC will reimburse 80% of furloughed workers wage costs, up to a cap of £2,500 per month. HMRC are working urgently to set up a system for reimbursement. Existing systems are not set up to facilitate payments to employers.

 

[chiefdave]

Trump is ruling out extending social distancing measures for more than few weeks

He's more concerned about the impact on his chances of winning the election than how many people die.

 

[pipkin73]

Yikes MOT due with testing stations closed!! Anyone know if there's a plan for this?

Out here if it has expired they are relaxing the rules and no action will be taken (as long as it expired on or after the date of the lockdown).

 

[David O'Day]

He's more concerned about the impact on his chances of winning the election than how many people die.

But surely if 100s of thousands die that hurts him

 

[wingy]

Trump is ruling out extending social distancing measures for more than few weeks

He'll be trying to boost the market's

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Trump is ruling out extending social distancing measures for more than few weeks

That country is more fucked than Neil's dad's arsehole

 

[rob9872]

I'm not sure if we're key or not as we supply supermarkets wity back of house stuff, but if we are, is our supply chain of metalworkers etc also key as we can't supply without them and where does it end as they'll require their suppliers etc

 

[David O'Day]

He'll be trying to boost the market's

But surely the average voter would be more swayed by people not dying