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[johnwise] 08/10/2020 17:30

Chancellor Rishi Sunak 'is putting together new furlough-style bailout' for coronavirus hotspots plunged into local lockdowns next week

[johnwise] 08/10/2020 14:03

Covid-19 local lockdown Prime Minister Question Time

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[forensic] 08/10/2020 13:29

Them traditional labour voters who voted for BoJo will be feeling pretty stupid, which they were voting for the charlatan.

[johnwise] 08/10/2020 08:05

It's grim up north.Lockdown must be accompanied with furlough.. Boris just said Goodbye to all the labour voters that turned Tory in the last election.

[johnwise] 07/10/2020 17:07

I don't want to hear anything about UK workers from that hypocritical traitor. It's people like him that decimate this country. All for a bit more money, moving operations overseas..

James Dyson says Britain's workers must get back to the office as he says 'hard work' and creating wealth is key to beating Covid crisis



February 2, 2019
Dyson HQ moves overseas to Singapore



August 2003
800 jobs axed as Dyson moves to Far East
Dyson is to transfer manufacturing of its vacuum cleaners from Malmesbury, Wiltshire, to the Far East with the loss of up to 800 jobs, it said today

[johnwise] 07/10/2020 16:52

Another study finds having a vitamin D deficiency could make you more likely to catch Covid-19

[johnwise] 07/10/2020 16:50

You cant punish pubs and restaurants because you have opened schools and universities! Protect the vulnerable but let people make their own choices about how to manage this virus and the risks they want to take.

Nicola Sturgeon BANS drinking inside pubs and restaurants, imposes 6pm closing time and shuts them completely in large part of the country for at least 16 days - heaping pressure on Boris to follow suit after COVID surge

[gozzie2] 07/10/2020 14:34

My impatient mates getting annoyed waiting 5 mins on the wetherspoons app lol .Its not very busy

[gozzie2] 07/10/2020 13:10

One of Britain's biggest pub operators is preparing to close dozens of venues and cut hundreds of jobs following a slump in trade exacerbated by the government's 10pm hospitality industry curfew.Sky News has learnt that Greene King on Wednesday started a consultation with 800 employees about a redundancy process.Sources close to the company, which has an estate of almost 1,700 managed pubs and 1,000 tenanted venues across Britain, said it would seek to redeploy affected staff wherever possible despite In total, 79 of Greene King's pubs and restaurants will close, with roughly one-third of the closures expected to be permanent.The redundancies represent a small fraction of Greene King's 38,000-strong workforce but underline the anxiety of employers as the government's furlough scheme nears its end.The latest round of cuts across the hospitality sector underline the enormous financial toll being taken on an industry that is among Britain's largest employers.Some of the country's best-known restaurant chains have already been forced into insolvency processes since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, while the industry association UK Hospitality has forecast that hundreds of thousands of jobs will disappear before Christmas without additional government support.

[gozzie2] 07/10/2020 13:07

I Greene King to close 79 pubs and axe 800 jobs as curfew hits industryhttps://www.thesun.co.uk/money/12868478/greene-king-close-pubs-axe-jobs-curfew-hits-industry/

[gozzie2] 06/10/2020 21:43

The Rochdale branch tomorrow I'm risking it with a mate he lives there .Wasn't great last time and they are certainly not strict .Maybe I should wear the full ppe kit .I wish you could see the pic of my mate that bought a mask from China at the beginning. It came and was one of those they used in chernobyl lol .People would have run a mile if he'd gone out in it .

[tim 3] 06/10/2020 19:52

Interesting that many of the tables in our spoons are now app orders only personally I like it but bet some of the locals don't Might be irrelevant soon as local lockdown looks likely in Sheffield any day soon thanks to huge numbers of positive tests in colleges/ universities.

[gozzie2] 05/10/2020 15:49

I've just phoned a wetherspoons up as my mate is mithering to go out Wednesday. The pub is in an area where the rule is no households mixing in pubs but not the law .The guy said just say you are in the same social bubble everyone's doing it and we won't turn you away .There is no point to these rules they are not enforcing them .

[gozzie2] 05/10/2020 14:16

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/05/paris-bars-to-close-for-two-weeks-as-city-moves-to-maximum-covid-alertSeeing as manchester is at the moment having twice the number of infection rates as Paris and the highest in England im sure they will close here soon .Over 500 per hundred thousand Paris 250 .

[blusteradjuster] 05/10/2020 11:09

Fullfact debunked this nonsense.

These misleading figures are based on something that doesn't mean what is being suggested.




"Over 40% of infections come from schools and universities compared with just 3% in pubs restaurants."

[gozzie2] 04/10/2020 22:18

Both left and right snap .No fake news there then .

[gozzie2] 04/10/2020 19:21

I don't really know where they find these figures of 3 percent for the pubs though .If a student for instance goes out in a busy pub Friday night and then in a large crowd outside .Then they go on public transport to a house party how do they know where the virus was caught .

[tim 3] 04/10/2020 18:46

Am not one for bashing students but they are a big problem here I work with some and Sheffield has a huge student population and many are just not taking it seriously with house party's and buying booze from supermarkets after pubs close.Over 40%of infections come from schools and universities compared with just 3% in pubs restaurants. I think it's actually better to have them drinking in pubs where rules can be enforced rather than the alternatives.

[konradpuss] 04/10/2020 17:26

Gozzie2, as suggested by Nigel Farage recently (love him or hate him) put that in a letter to your local M.P.

If M.P.s get such letters, they might just put some pressure on this shambles of a government to sharpen up.