Think everyone in my street has had enough of lockdown already, for the last 2 or 3 weeks it's been packed with parked cars, the only parked car I can see from my window today is mine...
It makes me wonder where the hell they've gone, with everything shut I can only imagine they've either gone back to work or started to visit family & friends.
Coronavirus - A pale horse,4 men and ....beer
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wearthefoxhat
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Makes sense, as they have to pay tax on their winnings.Emmson wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:00 amProfessional gamblers in Nevada may now be able to collect unemployment
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/profe ... 2020-04-16
They surely can't do that in the UK, deaths from alcohol withdrawal would dwarf covid-19!superfrank wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:14 amThe WHO are now recommending that alcohol sales be restricted during lockdown...
http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topic ... g-lockdown
Give authoritarians an inch and they'll always take a mile.
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Archery1969
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There would be rioting and looting on a large scale if they tried to implement that in the UK.superfrank wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:14 amThe WHO are now recommending that alcohol sales be restricted during lockdown...
http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topic ... g-lockdown
Give authoritarians an inch and they'll always take a mile.
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firlandsfarm
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Don't lose sight of that fact that most care workers and care homes are in the Private sector, not Government controlled. I was paying over £1,000pw for my mother ... it's for them to provide their employees with the tools they require to do the job, not the Government. And I think the Badge is a good idea, it's doesn't sound much I accept but if it allows those in the sector to be treated as a priority then I'm all for it. They should be treated same as NHS staff.
Apologies in advance. I know this will provoke a lot of people.
The Communties Minister trumpeting care for the rough sleepers in this crisis is mind-boggling hypocrisy. You've had 10 years to sort the regression in treatment of rough sleepers!
The Communties Minister trumpeting care for the rough sleepers in this crisis is mind-boggling hypocrisy. You've had 10 years to sort the regression in treatment of rough sleepers!
Their real concern is over how bad it would reflect on the government if scores of homeless people were left to die, rather than the welfare of rough sleepers.
I'm not sure that it was "help" - its probably business and not necessarily on favorable terms. Is there any reason to believe that the Turks won't be needing to supply their own in the near future or at least find higher bidders for the next few days worth of supplies or the next.greenmark wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2020 10:05 pmAnd we're now asking for help from Turkey for PPE. Stone me !!!
There is something faulty about believing we can mail order our way out of a GLOBAL pandemic. I wish we were properly mobilising our workforce and our factories instead of pawning the future for generations.
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firlandsfarm
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I wish the Remoaning Globalists would heed one of the lessons from this pandemic. Globalisation works fine if ... you manufacture over supply of your country's needs so the excess can be exported and the manufacturing and consuming countries stay friends! Everything is fine while the status quo prevails but introduce a problem into the equation and it starts to fall apart. My understanding is that Glaxo Smith Kline is one of the world's leading manufacturers of medical equipment but because of globalisation they have chosen to do so in other countries assuming demand remains predictable. Therefore we have no control over where the product is sent and we become just another country raking around at the bottom of world markets trying to scratch a mask here and a gown there. We have no inborn right to demand supplies in preference to other countries, we have to compete for them with money and favour. If it's Turkey that has supplies to sell then we have to win their delivery and remember for us to get them another country hasn't and their medical staff will be at risk.Jukebox wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 1:44 amI'm not sure that it was "help" - its probably business and not necessarily on favorable terms. Is there any reason to believe that the Turks won't be needing to supply their own in the near future or at least find higher bidders for the next few days worth of supplies or the next.
There is something faulty about believing we can mail order our way out of a GLOBAL pandemic. I wish we were properly mobilising our workforce and our factories instead of pawning the future for generations.
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wearthefoxhat
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Just watching the news and there was a clip of Elton John (Sir), playing the piano in his garden singing, I'm still standing.
Had the subtitles on (yep it's getting to that stage)...
Lyrics;
Translated to;
Looking like a tooth of lava....
Had the subtitles on (yep it's getting to that stage)...
Lyrics;
Translated to;
Looking like a tooth of lava....
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wearthefoxhat
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Latest sentiment?
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"GET BRITAIN MOVING AGAIN" is about to become the new one liner that gets drilled into your head... thank god, I was ready hang myself everytime I heard "THESE ARE UNPRECIDENTED TIMES" The 101 go to for anyone who wanted to come across like they knew what they were talking about, this was always straight out of the toolbox.
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It's pretty silly to plan to open schools when parents/grandparents could be put at risk by that action.
But then again, the world, and people who run it, is very silly right now.
