villakram Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 On 11/10/2020 at 08:56, bickster said: One step beyond... True, but given the behavior of people in many disparate countries during this time, one does wonder how many years would it take for a proper majority (>67%) to think this way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 13, 2020 Moderator Share Posted October 13, 2020 5 minutes ago, villakram said: True, but given the behavior of people in many disparate countries during this time, one does wonder how many years would it take for a proper majority (>67%) to think this way? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 1 minute ago, bickster said: rather thoughtless... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OutByEaster? Posted October 16, 2020 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted October 16, 2020 Well, I'm now at risk of redundancy along with 449 other people. Apparently only being able to invite 30 people into your 15,000 seat Arena or only being able to host 30 guests instead of 4,000 for your Christmas party or only being able to have people from the same household attend your trade show doesn't qualify you as "legally required to close" so we're not entitled to the money from the governments JSS scheme. The events industry is able to open as usual, apart from not being able to have any events - cheers Rishi. We built him a free hospital, he threw us under a bus. 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 That is awful @OutByEaster? . Fingers crossed it doesn't come to that because I'm seriously considering doing weird stuff on webcams for oligarchs at the moment . Luckily it's just myself I have to worry about but this must be a nightmare for people with family and mortgages. UBI is going to have to come in soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted October 17, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted October 17, 2020 A thread on borrowing to pay for the pandemic costs, question posed by Armando Iannuci with the reply from a former professor of economics at Birmingham university. I don’t really understand it, but it may be of some interest to others. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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markavfc40 Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 Marcus Rashford is a remarkable young man. I know he has the platform but full credit to him for using it in such a positive way. That his plea comes from personal experience only makes it stronger. Fair play play to the Welsh government for stepping up not just for the next school holiday but for the school holidays during the next 6 months or so. Hopefully others will follow suit it is a shame though, although zero surprise, that once again The Tories have be dragged and almost shamed into it. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Finchley Tube Station has a car park alongside it that charges £6 a day. Parking around Finchley / Barnet is pretty scarce, so I thought I’d try the tube car park at just after 8:00am, to be honest, just thinking there’s always the chance 1 car has just left. Parking capacity for 160 cars, there were about a dozen, maybe twenty cars in there. At 8:00am on a Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 On 17/10/2020 at 15:44, markavfc40 said: Marcus Rashford is a remarkable young man. I know he has the platform but full credit to him for using it in such a positive way. That his plea comes from personal experience only makes it stronger. Fair play play to the Welsh government for stepping up not just for the next school holiday but for the school holidays during the next 6 months or so. Hopefully others will follow suit it is a shame though, although zero surprise, that once again The Tories have be dragged and almost shamed into it. I read something recently that Roc Nation want all of their clients to get involved in activism and the Twitter accounts of their top players are managed by the same lady. Still very smart for him to identify a problem that is close to his heart and use his lived experience to amplify it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 14 hours ago, chrisp65 said: Finchley Tube Station has a car park alongside it that charges £6 a day. Parking around Finchley / Barnet is pretty scarce, so I thought I’d try the tube car park at just after 8:00am, to be honest, just thinking there’s always the chance 1 car has just left. Parking capacity for 160 cars, there were about a dozen, maybe twenty cars in there. At 8:00am on a Monday. What you doing round my areas? Got lost Barnet/fincherly is notoriously shit for parking. They have made most of the area resident parking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 57 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: What you doing round my areas? Got lost Barnet/fincherly is notoriously shit for parking. They have made most of the area resident parking. Not lost no, although the sat have on the new car has some hysterical pronunciations, there’s literally not a town it can get right. I think now is as good as parking is ever going to get, there were spaces everywhere. Although street parking in Isleworth did cost me £7.50 for a few hours to park on an otherwise empty street. Ordinarily, I’d park up in the Westfield for the day and zip round on that awful tube. But I’m going nowhere near the tube right now, I don’t care if its relatively quiet, tubes and trains are off limits for me for the time being. I drove up the M4, up along Wembley, Finchley, a quick drive by errand in Muswell Hill and then down to Brentford, then Isleworth, along Heathrow and then home along the length of the M4 and not once there or back on a week day did I encounter anything you could describe as congestion or queuing. There’s an upside to every pandemic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: Not lost no, although the sat have on the new car has some hysterical pronunciations, there’s literally not a town it can get right. I think now is as good as parking is ever going to get, there were spaces everywhere. Although street parking in Isleworth did cost me £7.50 for a few hours to park on an otherwise empty street. Ordinarily, I’d park up in the Westfield for the day and zip round on that awful tube. But I’m going nowhere near the tube right now, I don’t care if its relatively quiet, tubes and trains are off limits for me for the time being. I drove up the M4, up along Wembley, Finchley, a quick drive by errand in Muswell Hill and then down to Brentford, then Isleworth, along Heathrow and then home along the length of the M4 and not once there or back on a week day did I encounter anything you could describe as congestion or queuing. There’s an upside to every pandemic. Come round enfield at 3pm and you will change your mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Davkaus Posted October 21, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2020 People have talked about the WFH tax relief before, but you can claim for the entire 2020/21 tax year now. £62.40 less tax to pay over the next few months, not bad for 2 minutes work! https://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2020/04/martin-lewis--working-from-home-due-to-coronavirus--claim-p6-wk-/ Claiming working-from-home tax relief has exploded in the last couple of months (possibly pushed by this very blog) so HMRC has just revamped the system, with a brand new microservice to simplify the process. When we first saw it, we couldn't quite believe it meant you'd automatically get the whole tax year's claim, regardless of how long you were at home for. 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Amey hand back the contract and the keys to the trains in Wales. Transport for Wales now nationalised. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozzavfc Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 4 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Amey hand back the contract and the keys to the trains in Wales. Transport for Wales now nationalised. While its good news aren't all rail services nationalised at the moment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 7 minutes ago, Mozzavfc said: While its good news aren't all rail services nationalised at the moment? 16 private rail franchises still operating at the moment. That’s my understanding unless someone else can update me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 27 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Amey hand back the contract and the keys to the trains in Wales. Transport for Wales now nationalised. So Amey make profit from it during the good times, and can chuck in the contract at will during the bad times? Making the whole contract risk-free and overall profitable for them? Surely they should be made to stick to the contract terms at all times, not just when they feel like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 7 minutes ago, ender4 said: So Amey make profit from it during the good times, and can chuck in the contract at will during the bad times? Making the whole contract risk-free and overall profitable for them? Surely they should be made to stick to the contract terms at all times, not just when they feel like? I think the model collapsed, the trains are empty. So technically, yes, they could have let them collapse and then picked up the pieces. I think they’ve decided to underwrite the costs of keeping it going and keeping people employed and keeping a service for those that absolutely need it. That’s an absolute guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 15 hours ago, chrisp65 said: Amey hand back the contract and the keys to the trains in Wales. Transport for Wales now nationalised. One more step done, but the program won't be complete until sausages are finally nationalised. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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