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[montyhedge] 12/5/2020 08:16

No one in their right mind will fly until a vaccine surely. We all know planes are spreaders of colds, flu etc.2 metre rule can't work. 1 kilometre queue to get on a 747, lol

[albert3591] 12/5/2020 08:04

Watfordhornet....subject to what,let’s hear the rest.

[montyhedge] 12/5/2020 08:02

135p my target. Just can't see a bull case.

[montyhedge] 12/5/2020 07:55

Empty planes ?

[sr2day] 12/5/2020 07:54

Sturgeon is doing the right thing.Boris has lost the plot.He lost the plot when he was defiant and was still shaking hands when others were thinking of lockdown.it nearly cost him his life.it may also cost him the tory leadership.

[watfordhornet] 12/5/2020 07:53

Ryanair restarting 40% flights from July

[buywell3] 12/5/2020 07:51

Because France will do the same in the other direction is why

The Channel Tunnel links us

France could leave the EU and do a closer partnership with England based upon Trade and Defence , get perhaps a Scandinavia country like Norway and maybe Switzerland and we have the makings of a decent trading group.

Macron and boris are plotting something he has had enough of Merkel

Germany is going its own way as the EU sinks into a debt morass even worse than ours.

The Euro to go within 2 to 3 years

dyor IMO

[careful] 12/5/2020 07:48

Sturgeon is just trying to be different to Johnson for political gain.
Playing politics.
Johnson says left she says right, Johnson says up she says down.

She is trying to appear like the Scottish PM in waiting.
Fat chance.
How can you be so gullible and fall for this stunt?

It is about time Boris Johnson risked unpopularity, Maggie style, and started to make some tough unpopular decisions.
Stop faffing around and get people back to work.
If they do not know what precautions to take by now they are morons.
Slash payments in the furlow scheme, we cannot afford it.

He should take advantage of the fact that there will not be another election for over 4 years.
Take risks, show them who's boss.

[azalea] 12/5/2020 07:35

I have no problem with leaders in Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland differing with the PM announcements yesterday, for they will and are answerable to the people in their countries, in every respect.
What I do not understand is why the PM has exempted people flying into the UK from France from being made go into quarantine, after arriving.

[buywell3] 12/5/2020 03:05

buywell wonders at what point will a certain large shareholder decide to cut its losses?

Like many clueless pink specs holders currently posting

150p for now

[fjgooner] 12/5/2020 02:55

Re: "When Charles DeGaulle spoke after WW2 that American troops should leave France, Lyndon Johnson, quipped does that include the 71,000 Americans soldiers buried on French soil."

Don't get me going.

But this says everything you'll ever need to know about this galling Gaul:

From Wikipedia:

In his dealings with the British and Americans (both referred to as the "Anglo-Saxons", in de Gaulle's parlance), he always insisted on retaining full freedom of action on behalf of France and was constantly on the verge of losing the Allies' support. Some writers have sought to deny that there was deep and mutual antipathy between de Gaulle and British and American political leaders.

De Gaulle personally had ambivalent feelings about Britain, possibly in part because of childhood memories of the Fashoda Incident. As an adult he spoke German much better than he spoke English; he had thought little of the British Army's contribution to the First World War.

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Not a good return on the British help given both to France and to this ungrateful dude.

[arai] 11/5/2020 23:03

Abu Dhabi's Etihad to offer Melbourne to London flights from May 15

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[waikenchan] 11/5/2020 22:33

Have to feel for investors that have lost a significant % of their iag investments.

Sounds like the govt are taking a tough stance on this quarantine. Earnings will not be recovering significantly in quarter 3 aswell and this is the peak time when airlines earn the bulk of their incomes. This pent up demand has just disappeared in one statement by Boris.

[loganair] 11/5/2020 20:15

Germany’s infection rate jumped for the second day in a row as coronavirus lockdown measures have begun to be relaxed, the country’s centre for disease control announced on Monday.

Latest figures from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) show that the coronavirus reproduction rate in Germany is now 1.13, up from 1.1 the day before and .83 on Friday.

About 200 workers from a meat processing plant in western Germany have been tested positive for COVID-19. Officials say the virus spread through shared housing for the factory's mostly Eastern European staff. Local residents are deeply concerned.



Attempts to maintain a unified UK-wide response faltered over the weekend after first ministers Nicola Sturgeon, Mark Drakeford and Arlene Foster all rejected Boris Johnson’s new “stay alert” slogan. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are sticking firmly with the "stay home" message.

[isis] 11/5/2020 20:11

In his Hall. ;))

[hamhamham1] 11/5/2020 20:00

Anyway, where's Uncle Albert?

[careful] 11/5/2020 19:01

How can you talk about the defeat of Germany without mentioning Russia.
23 million dead Russians, 92% of all German killed were on the Russian front.

A team effort, we all did our bit, but let us not distort history.
Adolf invaded Russia with 3m troops.
The scale was enormous.

[grahamnash] 11/5/2020 18:54

Sorry to change the subject from the 2WW, but out of curiosity does anyone here know the relative risk of dying from an aircraft crash compared to a 20 year old dying from Covid?
As I understand it, Japan declared war on US. They planned to do it an hour before planes arrived at Pearl Harbour, but messed up the time difference in Washington and did it afterwards. Germany and Italy then forced to declare war on US by Triple Alliance. Economically, US were major winners from the war as they effectively inherited the British empire and the trade that went with it. US considered investing heavily in UK but chose W Germany instead.

[isis] 11/5/2020 18:49

Not the point - they still lost. The victors were quick to point them on the right track after what happened after WW1 and Germany which led to WW2 - so they didn't wan't the risk of that happening again.

[hamhamham1] 11/5/2020 18:04

I don't see that Germany and Japan came off badly from ww2. All that investment and rebuilding rocketed them forward economically.

[isis] 11/5/2020 17:30

Fact is no single Country won it. It was a World War - We can say without doubt though Japan and Germany lost the plot and the Wars.

[wilc42] 11/5/2020 17:11

But, and here is the real question. Would the USA have officially joined in had Pearl Harbour tragically not have occurred. Whilst there was a strong leasing agreement for boats and non military supplies and Eagle Squadrons, their was no direct engagement by the US government before that. It would have been a close thing. Bloody glad and eternally grateful they did.

[isis] 11/5/2020 17:02

Maybe so but Japan and Germany forced them into it. Not the UK.