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May 12, 2020 Longrider General News, General Rants, misanthropy, Political 26

Jesus Christ almighty.

The UK scheme to pay wages of workers on leave because of coronavirus will be extended to October, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said.

He said the government backed workers and companies going into the lockdown, and would support them coming out.

Mr Sunak confirmed that employees will continue to receive 80% of their monthly wages up to £2,500.

But he said the government will ask companies to “start sharing” the cost of the scheme from August.

The performing seals clapping this insanity will be the first to complain about “austerity” when payback time comes around – that’s assuming that they have jobs to go back to and don’t end up on benefits that those of us who do have jobs will be paying for big time.

Mr Sunak rejected suggestions some people might get “addicted” to furlough if it was extended.

Too late. You are now giving methadone to a country full of junkies and hoping that things will get better next autumn.

The world has gone insane.

26 Comments

  1. Yep you are right LR. All the people i know on furlough are totally addicted to it and would like it extended forever. Never mind how it bankrupts the country. These morons incidentally want lockdown extended. Stupid stupid fuckwits !

  3. Thats it, the country’s f*cked. We can’t afford this, the longer it goes on the worse the fallout is going to be. It would have been bad enough if he’d just extended it for a month or two with a tapering % of wages paid, and allowed people to work at the same time, but nearly 6 months at what is effectively full pay? Insanity. Most of these people will be unemployed when the scheme ends, so what on earth are we spending all this money paying them to do nothing for?

    • I’ve seen it described as a very expensive form of unemployment benefit.

      An awful lot of people will got straight from furlough to dole, I think.

      • An awful lot of people will got straight from furlough to dole, I think

        I happened to catch a short bit of the Six O’clock BBC news, and Simon Jacks was interviewing some business owners. One said that she feared the jobs of many people currently furloughed are already “extinct” (I think that was the term she used). I’m not familiar with employment law, but wouldn’t they be getting termination notices as soon as the company has decided they aren’t needed? Or do they continue being paid until the scheme winds up, and then find out?

        • I think I’ve found an answer on Twitter:

          @LanceForman
          Just spoken to 3 business people who have staff on furlough. Each said they were planning to lay them off at end of July, but will now simply do it at the end of October.

          The furlough scheme is basically the most expensive unemployment benefit on the planet

  4. Please note, all these polls are being conducted either online, or by phone. So it’s logical to consider they’re not going to get feedback from those who are working (they use mobiles and pollsters don’t), nor those who do not have a home Internet connection. Or those who don’t do polls.

    So I’d be looking at outfits like mumsnet where it’ll be whistled out to like minded mummy’s.

    Scotland says it’s guided by polls as well as their advisors.

    At some point they will have to look at their own data sets, not the theory, because government revenue is fast disappearing. Only today some outfit (link on Dick’s place explained what they’re losing on just fuel duty as well as VAT). When our Chancellor actually does the real numbers, he’ll find they must cut the crap and, fingers crossed, adopt the Swedish system.

  5. You weren’t supposed to notice! Mind you the centralised backstabbing by the EUSSR over chinese flu must be a pointer to how necessary Brexit is.

  6. Yes, The world has gone insane – except Sweden, Taiwan & a few others. Giving income certainty to what have become spongers worse than benefit cheats making a few quid. They now have no incentive to want to go back to work.

    C4 News reaction: talking twats “not enough, should be until after Christmas, blah, whine”

    One positive: part-time work to be allowed without losing 100% of payment – Germany did that from Day 1

    What is this “government will ask companies to “start sharing” the cost of the scheme from August”? Were Govt handing out £2,500pm to anyone who applied and lied? Govt asking employers to pay staff made ‘redundant by Govt edict? “Ask” away sunny boy, reply is FO

    @Timothy, Jim, microdave
    +1

    Chicken Little Boris dithers, Italy Acts
    The Italian government has announced that coffee bars, restaurants, hairdressers, retail shops, and other establishments may reopen on May 18 instead of June 1 as previously stipulated
    https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/05/12/italy-accelerates-lifting-of-lockdown-as-protests-continue/

  8. About going back to work but avoiding public transport. When I was a kid if you were on bus and someone was coughing and sneezing everybody threw open the slidey windows to get some fresh air on the deck.
    Everyone was vulnerable to whatever was being coughed out and being 2m away or the other end of the bus would make no difference whatever. Same applies to train carriages (except now no windows that open) and especially Underground carriages.
    Not my problem as I have not used public transport for years.

  9. And the civil service unions are already starting to make noises about deserving a pay rise because they are the heroes of the hour for implementing the scheme!

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