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Key point this. Voters are individuals no matter how much people try and bloc them into groupings All parties susceptible to vested interests. But, for example, large Trade Unions that are Labour backers can't actually block deliver their members votes in an election. Large companies that back...

Interesting this. Talking to one of my brothers and some friends in UK (1 in Brum, rest in London) who have seriously realized how much work can be done from home and are looking at the merits of relocating (particularly northwards) due to the cost of housing (and the rent/mortgages they are...

1/3? Does that mean we're going to live into our 100s? That's a way a way surely. state picking up the tab will come from higher taxes for those in work. As to investment in medicine, healthy lifestyles - some comes from trying to reduce the burden on health services, the rest from individual...

you've got a figure for the outright tax evasion, then there's a figure for the "legal" evasion (like Google, Amazon etc moving their daily income offshore to tax friendly environments)

It does raise economic issues for the future though (not the euthanasia bit). Companies investing billions in extending life spans = normally at the "unproducive" stages of our lives. Getting to the situation where around half of our life spans will not be spent working (paying into the system)...

Yep it's all relative. Supermarkets set the prices and growers set wages according to that - not the other way around - or else supermarkets do what they always do and source from around the world where possible/feasible. Romanian minimum wage around a quarter of the UK's so many Romanians...

People don't like piecework. Most of the seasonal harvesting work is that. Also comes down to geography in many cases in having to get large groups of people from urban to rural areas on a daily basis.

Germany flying in 80000 Romanians and Poles to pick strawberries and asparagus atm. Austria desperately trying to find East European Labour as well. Spain will continue using illegal immigrant labour. UK been bringing in European labour for over 30 years. Used to be mainly students on short...

would have thought the next election will still be about Brexit. Either the country "survives" it and moves forward then it'll be a Tory win. It's not worked out and Labour will be promising to fix it (and win)

Catching up with care home testing. 36,% jump in care home infections

So much for Saudi billions

taking it down to "simple" numbers to show how small the margins are and the reasoning behind the concepts of isolation/groupings/distancing

Staveley could just be a better-looking version of Joy :)

Think 1 or 2 Geordies are getting carried away. If there is all this money behind the deal why are they paying in instalments?

easing up from Thursday but if you go outside have to wear a mask or scarf across your face. One eye on the May Presidential election

Did the Irish not travel to Cheltenham this year? My experiences of Cheltenham (work and play) were of huge numbers coming over for the Festival.

Poland easing up but if you go out side you have to wear a mask or a scarf across your face

Got a link please. Know eastern European EU states have been getting donations from Germany but nothing much yet from EU. Definite PPE and ventilator shortages here, Romania, Slovakia and others. Our media says EU stuff is at least 2 weeks away from arriving.

Exactly. Mandatory quarantine when 1st report is made. Enforced by the police visiting a couple of times a day. New load of kit from China this morning which is apparently "guaranteed" quality. Implication being 1st lot was duff as continuing shortages of PPE and there wasn't any significant...