Making the news today....

[Richard 1234]

27 minutes ago, Mark J said:

It would have been better if we'd been given these guidlines some time ago.
I realise you just want to argue.
Just don't try and make it look like the gov has done anything right, because they haven't.

What would the right way off doing things been?

[Mark J]

9 minutes ago, Richard 1234 said:

What would the right way off doing things been?

Something to do with experts.

[trigger_andy]

Just now, Mark J said:

Something to do with experts.

But there was experts advising the Government. Clearly that has proved to be at least partially bad advice. 

[Alex O]

[Alex O]

Australia have just announced this for nsw, if you’re business profits have dropped buy 30% your employee or if your self employed are entitled to $1500 a fortnight. This is to try and keep people in work and employees to keep there staff on.its a flat rate of pay weather your full time or part time worker

[Mark J]

28 minutes ago, Richard 1234 said:

What would the right way off doing things been?

Opening emails  and ordering ventilators/testing kits

Government investigating failure to take up offer of 25,000 ventilat…

WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK

---

A blunder that may have seen the UK miss out on an offer of 25,000 life-saving ventilators will be investigated, Michael...

 

 

Edited March 30, 2020 by Mark J

[trigger_andy]

2 minutes ago, Alex O said:

Australia have just announced this for nsw, if you’re business profits have dropped buy 30% your employee or if your self employed are entitled to $1500 a fortnight. This is to try and keep people in work and employees to keep there staff on.its a flat rate of pay weather your full time or part time worker

A lot of factors are at play there.

 

1, The Aussie population is only 24 million.

2, Their package is about £65B. The UK is pledging a £330B package. So the Aussie package is £2700 per person and the UK Package is £4900 per person. 

3, The $1500 a fortnight is £750 a fortnight, or £1500 a month. Considering the cost of living in Oz that sucks ass. 

4, When will they start to get this package?

5, are they expected to repay it? Nothing in Oz os for free.

[trigger_andy]

7 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Opening emails  and ordering ventilators/testing kits

Government investigating failure to take up offer of 25,000 ventilat…

WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK

---

A blunder that may have seen the UK miss out on an offer of 25,000 life-saving ventilators will be investigated, Michael...

 

 

Ah the Independent, the oxymoron of a Newspaper. 

[Richard 1234]

22 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Opening emails  and ordering ventilators/testing kits

Government investigating failure to take up offer of 25,000 ventilat…

WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK

---

A blunder that may have seen the UK miss out on an offer of 25,000 life-saving ventilators will be investigated, Michael...

 

 

I’ve seen that one and the government response. It seems they were not credible in what they thought they could supply.

oh and they were using experts from what I can see. They may we’ll have been wrong.

not sure anyone would have been well placed to make this run smoothly 

[Mark J]

4 minutes ago, Richard 1234 said:

I’ve seen that one and the government response. It seems they were not credible in what they thought they could supply.

oh and they were using experts from what I can see. They may we’ll have been wrong.

not sure anyone would have been well placed to make this run smoothly 

Well, hopefully not too many people will kark it as a result of the way things have been done.