Lock Down?

[Mr. Squirrel]

Least we spend most of our time up trees and not interacting with the public. The lads are making their own way to site, (for which I'm offering a bit of extra cash) and I'm not shaking hands with or spending much time speaking directly with customers, but otherwise it's business as usual. 

I'm not doing pubs, crowds or visits. But I don't see any reason not to work...

[The avantgardener]

I am coppicing with one guy on a huge estate for the next two weeks, I have enough fuel in the truck and enough Aspen to last the job, won’t be at the pub or supermarket, in fact don’t need to meet anyone outside my home.

Unfortunately, my missus is a Primary teacher, she is in contact with hundreds of the little blighters every day, they come from all over town and have probably not been concerned about their movements up to this point. So all the steps that I have taken to self isolate are F*****g pointless.

[Acerforestry]

Agree with the above, the economy is going to be completely shot after 3 or 4 months of do we - or do we not go to work, plummeting stock markets and missed mortgage and rent payments. As for the theory that a lot us are going to be cut a fair amount of slack financially, I'm not entirely sure how that will really play out. What are the banks going to do if people have to keep hammering credit cards  and overdrafts for months at a stretch, eventually they will draw the horns in. It isn't just the virus, its the overall effects and long term implications on the UK in general that are going to be a nightmare

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[Johnsond]

24 minutes ago, Acerforestry said:

Agree with the above, the economy is going to be completely shot after 3 or 4 months of do we - or do we not go to work, plummeting stock markets and missed mortgage and rent payments. As for the theory that a lot us are going to be cut a fair amount of slack financially, I'm not entirely sure how that will really play out. What are the banks going to do if people have to keep hammering credit cards  and overdrafts for months at a stretch, eventually they will draw the horns in. It isn't just the virus, its the overall effects and long term implications on the UK in general that are going to be a nightmare

Agreed 

I wonder if HMRC will cut anyone some slack when the income/turnover for small businesses or the self employed disappears!!! My own view is they won’t give a damn based on their track record. 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

16 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Agreed 

I wonder if HMRC will cut anyone some slack when the income/turnover for small businesses or the self employed disappears!!! My own view is they won’t give a damn based on their track record. 

The only hope is that there is a concentrated, extreme variant which attacks only HMRC staff...

[Rough Hewn]

I'm considering diversifying into manufacturing hand sanitizer and bog roll...
Possibly a pasta machine?
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[Billhook]

Cannot really understand the full implication of throwing untold billions at the economies of the world. We seem to owe trillions here alone, Italy seems to be in terrible trouble.   The EU seems to have lost all control of its border policies and its

fiscal policies.  I think it will be the final nail in the coffin for the EU, they certainly have no monetary reserves left.

Surely printing money must end up with massive inflation and the only reason we have not had inflation since the 2008 financial crisis is that governments and banks have put the lid on it. They never actually solved the basic problem, just pushed it forward.

But as you all know, when you seal the lid on a boiling container, at some point it has to explode.

[gary112]

53 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

I'm considering diversifying into manufacturing hand sanitizer and bog roll...
Possibly a pasta machine?
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Got a feeling you might do better than milling at the minute?

[Rough Hewn]

Got a feeling you might do better than milling at the minute[emoji106]

Still getting milling jobs,
It's all the tree work that's dried up.
Hopefully all these people who will be working from home will want trees cutting if the sun come out.
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[spuddog0507]

On 09/03/2020 at 22:15, 5 shires said:

Being self employed like the majority of guys on here and some have regular self employed guys working for them,I was just thinking if we have to self lock down for a couple of weeks will the Government pay us lost income??

What ever your on ! i will have one please,