Off Topic Coronavirus and NOTHING to do with football thread

Another 200 billion euros worth of asssets leaving the country and heading to Germany.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-jp-morgan-brexit-idUKKCN26E1GK

 

It seems that project fear needs to be changed to project reality.

 

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/we-called-it-right-on-irresponsible-feckless-boris-johnson/

I make no comment other than to say I will not contribute to their site.

 

Looks like Gove forgot where he had hidden his stash...

 

Whilst BoJo inflicts more Covid misery on the country, his latest squeeze and child get sent off on a nice little holiday. Strange that only this week he was complaining about his £150k salary not being enough to live on - does this mean that taxpayers are footing the bill for this little jaunt? Or maybe a Russian oligarch who lives nearby?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-Sunak-unveils-urgent-measures-save-jobs.html

 

Seems that Leeds is going back into much stronger restrictions. 17-24 year olds are driving the numbers up, which could have been forecast as the Universities see the students return. This has happened in France where they returned earlier, so it was entirely predictable. The problem is that so many of the UK universities are up to their necks in debt and are desperate to see the fees flowing again.
I hope that Yorkie stays safe of course, but also many others in the city. My son went to Leeds University and on my visits to see him did see the student living areas and lifestyle. It is a perfect place to spread the virus with people living very close to each other, and plenty of bars both on and off campus.

 

Good thing to to be honest.... my experience is that younger people are not seeming to care.... and think it wont affect them.... and Leeds is currently filling up with students...

 

This does make you wonder about the competence of the Tories - and what the point of having the app is...



Not to mention how on on earth they expect their 'Operation Moonshot' plan to work - https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3558

*200 000 to 800 000 tests a day between September and December 2020;
*Two to four million tests daily from January 2021, leading to a full rollout of ten million daily;
*Testing high contact professions such as teachers every week;
*Introduction of 'digital passports' to allow holders to attend an in-patient appointment, go to work that day, access a venue, get on a flight or visit an elderly relative.

About the only thing likely to work is their plan to incentivise the population to be tested by introducing a 'sanction-based model' - such a Tory thing...

 

Shambolic.... and you can see Johsons pompous exaggeration throughout...... Teresa May would have done a better job IMO

 

Once again the Swiss have shown that they like freedom of movement when in their referendum held today they rejected the chance to end it and with it the problems of new trade restrictions. It seems that the message of look what a mess the UK are in had an effect.

 

Big lockdown in the North East.

Basically cannot meet up with anyone outside your own household.

Numbers must be petty bad up there .

 

Q: In the north east can people meet people from outside their household in a pub garden? People find these rules confusing.

Johnson says the rule of six means you can only meet six people, inside or outside.

In the north east, he says, people must follow the rules.

As he understands it, he says, “it is not six outside”.

If the PM doesn't understand the rules how on earth can you expect the population at large to understand?

 

I continue to be exasperated by those who flout the regulations designed to keep us all safe....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-54349548

 

Mr. Speaker tells the government that they are treating Parliament with contempt. Not surprising, but if they are prepared to treat the elected MPs in this way, why think they will do differently when it comes to the ordinary members of the public?

"The way in which the government has exercised its power to make secondary legislation during this crisis has been totally unsatisfactory.

All too often important statutory instruments have been published a matter of hours before they come into force and some explanations as to why important measures have come into effect before they can be laid before this house has been unconvincing and shows a total disregard for the house ...

As I hope my early comments show I have not taken this decision lightly. I am looking to the government to remedy a situation I regard as completely unsatisfactory.

I am now looking to the government to rebuild the trust with this house and not treat it with the contempt that it has shown."

 

And they are supposed to be the intelligent ones. Beggars belief really.

 

From the Food & Drink Federation website - all looks so 'simple'!!! Remember that none of this applies currently.

https://www.fdf.org.uk/publicgeneral/moving-goods-great-britain-to-northern-ireland.pdf

https://www.fdf.org.uk/publicgeneral/moving-goods-northern-ireland-to-great-britain.pdf

 

So the EU have launched legal action against the UK. I don't know that it will wipe the smirks of the faces of Johnson, Gove et al, but at the end of the day, it may lead to the EU suing the UK - and if they win, the only people who will be hurt will be the ordinary citizens, not the politicians

https://www.rt.com/uk/502226-eu-legal-case-britain/

 

Poland and Turkey on the Quarantined list.

Going to affect a few people as both are pretty popular in terms of people travelling to and from them.

 

From today's Bloomberg:

Financial services firms operating in the U.K. have shifted about 7,500 employees and more than 1.2 trillion pounds ($1.6 trillion) of assets to the European Union ahead of Brexit -- with more likely to follow in coming weeks, according to EY.

This is getting a tad expensive now. Gove in the Commons has confirmed that the UK chemicals industry, which is one of the largest earners for the country, will be paying £1billion extra in obtaining licences and the correct paperwork to continue selling to the EU. He said that it was an inevitable result of leaving the customs union and single market. He didn't say that at the time of the referendum, He also said last week that the IT system for the logistics companies was now in place. The hauliers say that that is far from the truth, and government papers confirm that it is not ready. When questioned about what he had told the house last week he smirked and said it was the hauliers fault.

 

It seems that the Tory Party doesn't have exclusive rights to thick MPs.

Margaret Ferrier MP

MP Rutherglen & Hamilton West, SNP Spokesperson Manufacturing.

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