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Just to be clear, so that you don't take me for some swivelled-eyed BREXIT loon, I voted REMAIN. Good. Got that out of the way.

Scotland cannot "revert" to being a member, it was never a member...

Should the Scottish government negotiate with the UK government now so that the voters know what they are really voting for? Isn't that what was learned from BREXIT?

The SNP were categorically...

My daughter ( aged 19 ) is back from Uni and working in a local care home over Xmas. She's just been offered it. Should be getting it done early next week.

It's coming fast to a location near...

Yeah, right. More likely to avoid inheritance tax.

It seems like you are suffering from Scooter-withdrawal.

I'd draw you a chart to ease your suffering but it wouldn't be as good.

I was once involved in a handover ( "Transition to Offshore") that, because of the complexity of the system, and relatively low skills of the receiving team took longer to complete than the actual...

I can't really believe that an authoritarian quasi-communist country will ever run their companies and stock-markets in a way to benefit Western investors.

Sorry, you are right, I stand corrected.

Nothing to see here, move on everybody.

I think they need to be rubbed out and redrawn.

So we have a 90% effective vaccine ( plus at least another 6 highly-likely candidates due to report in the next few weeks ).

Got rid of Trump,...

Google "FTSE 100".

Take a look at the rise following the vaccine announcement.

Very true - and of course it takes 3 - 6 months to get a V0.9 product/business launched .... and hopefully things will be on the up by the end of March 2021!

Coming out of a deep recession with a...

Start your own company, build a business & product using your IT skills, focused on something that you like or do. For example, some sort of property management app.

Set yourself a time-limit,...

I'd recommend them too. My home office is from GR, they were excellent and the quality is great.

Also, you can't have too many plug sockets. I have 6 doubles with USB charging in mine, although...

You could, of course, just not insult anyone.

Distract yourself by becoming a day-trader.

Yes, it can be.

It's a quantum investment. Schrodinger's gold.

No, you don't know, or No, you don't want to explain?

Slightly Off-topic :

Does anyone on this board know how vaccine trials work and care to explain?

I understand they do a Phase I, II & III clinical trials checking the safety and then the...

The "funny" money supply isn't going to dry up though. More likely it is going to increase, for example, France launched a €100B economic package this week.

Whoever wins the US election is...

The Oxford Vaccine has started it's final large scale trials in the US this week.

There are already large-scale trials running in the UK and Brazil which should be coming to a close soon.

If,...

No worries then. As to the "short" - I probably just misread it when I skimmed through the thread.



Here's another story.

Got a "mate" ( well, bloke-down-the-pub ) who was always going on...

OK. So you didn't understand the point I was trying to make. I'm not talking about stop losses.

It's not about "believing" in yourself. That's irrelevant. That's something that pop-star...

Back in early the 2000's I worked on a commodity trading floor in London. For a large, well known, trading house.

I got involved with some development work for the internal auditors and read...

A bit like People Per Hour? It lets you post a "Project" on any given subject and then people/companies can bid for that work.

Sort of like Google? But only better?

This is one of those never-factual, ever reoccurring stories.

Before 5G there were concerns about 4G. Before that WIFI. Before that radio and television.

Anyone remember the stories, back in...

I know! I read it and thought "There's always a couple of a*holes in every community".

I doubt very much that it is any way representative of the wider German, mostly law-abiding, society.

Indeed I do. And as you probably understood, that wasn't the point.

The point was to illustrate how easy it is to scour the internet, find a story with some negative connetations and then post it...

Germany slams abuse of French visitors over coronavirus

Gosh. This is awful. German people are being terrible to the French ( again! You'd have thought they would have stopped that behaviour...

Ah yes. I must have missed all those posts you did criticizing the Italian and Spanish governments over the last 3 weeks. Or do you just do that on ContractorES?

And your insightful comments...

Let's face it Scoots. You're loving the fact that the UK is close to a 1000 deaths per day.

You spend a huge amount of time and effort looking for any news story that you can post on here to...

It's not his hobby. It's his addiction.

I skimmed through this thread and didn't notice if anyone else had posted the HMRC webinar:

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Job Retention Scheme

Apologies if it's a duplicate.

This is not entirely true.

If you have a wave of forced-sellers, for example, the newly unemployed or a significant number of newly empty properties ( owners died ), you will enter a situation...

No you didn't. But you did imply heavily that it was because people in the UK were not being admitted to hospital quickly enough, when you actually have no real understanding of what the best...

Maybe. Who knows? Where did you do you medical degree?

Good for them.

However, there's plenty of people dying and it's not because of a lack of ventilators in the UK. The UK is not at the capacity of it's ventilators.

Then we would designate hotel staff as key-workers and so they would have to go to work?

Would the hotel staff also stay in the hotel or would they go home of an evening?

If you test a large number of minor cases, then you'll have a lower death rate.

Also, I read somewhere that the average age of a German infected is 46, against 64 in Italy and 63 in the UK.

The...

Yup. There are no winners in this one I'm afraid.

I agree with your post. By "Under Control" I mean to start seeing a damping down of the spread of the virus, which should lead to fewer admissions to hospital, which in turn will lead to fewer...

It's going to take a lot of effort to reboot the economy and they cannot be restarted in isolation.

Once the virus is under control and we gotta hope that this social distancing is going to do...

The more you have, the easier it gets to ignore them, although my advice is always "Stop at 3".

From my impeccable sources

He might not own more land than all the Royals combined. But more farmland than any individual Royal.


The Queen owns more castles though.

On the 24th January the Lancet editor tweeted:



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So he aint exactly Nostradamus.

We've all got 20/20 hindsight.

Dyson is the largest farmer in the UK.

That's not relevant to this thread ... but then again most of the posts on CUk are irrelevant.

One of the more positive aspects of all this is the 600k people who signed-up within 36 hours to support the 1.5m vulnerable people in society.

If we can protect and support the most vulnerable...

Don't worry ATW.

The 3-pack you bought in 1996 should be more than enough to get you through.

Being able to use contactless to buy beer in the pub has been one of the greatest developments in the last 10 years.

1) People waited in well spaced queues, the floor has been marked with tape to indicate the correct distancing. People keeping a good distance apart whilst browsing the aisles.

2) Contactless...