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You can’t block on this site, only mute, which only effects your side of the conversation so not sure any rules about blocking apply. Not that I’ve ever heard such a rule. When my missus blocks people on Twitter who send her dick pics what argument is she supposed to have lost there?

There’s something about people from business and finance that makes them total dunces when it comes to macro economics. I guess it’s the whole “a national economy is just like a household budget” nonsense writ large.

Are there any sensible Conservatives left though? It’s only the wing nuts who survived the purge so you’ve got to take what you can. He was installed by Cummings over Javid because he was less of a Thatcherite loon wasn’t he? Javid didn’t want to spend to cushion the blow from Brexit like...

Oh god imagine the crowing about having the first BAME PM. Considering annoying lefties is their most consistent political belief these days I think they’ll go Sunak for that reason alone. To be honest I’d take it. Not a fan of changing PMs without an election and it’s be the third time in a...

Leicester a little too much.

It do be like that at times. Give it a few hours.

You think more people died on the Blitz than in Europe?? And there was lots of criticism of Churchill and more appropriately of Chamberlain which is a better analogy to Johnson. Regardless, you realise there’s the exact same memes on the left right? That’s my point. The issue is you being...

Missed this. I was looking at the popularity ratings. Good work.

Nope. At its height the public sector employed just over 7m people in 1979, half a million fewer than are currently claiming furlough alone.

YouGov don’t do daily opinion polls, but on their live ratings tracker Johnson currently sits at -13 with 99 heard of him, Starmer at -4 with 44 heard of. So he’s behind there too.

Could you imagine a free market solution to a pandemic?

Yeah that confused me as well, hence me asking if I’ve read it right. Is it just wages support?

Just saw a stat if you add furloughed and public sector workers together you’ve now got 49% of all employees being paid by the state!

I mean all news is required to pump out shite on the daily to keep the lights on, but since Cameron senior leadership at BBC News and Politics at least has been very pro Tory. I think the fact is we’ve done badly recently so it looks like it’s all negative news, but then you’ve got people on...

Johnson’s approval drops 17 points in a day! Now below Starmer.

TBF you’re right. There’s issues with the existing scheme. But keeping it in was the right decision compared to tapering off the furlough payments.

Lazy righties living the life of Riley on benefits ;)

Really good announcement if I’m reading it correctly. Still 80% of wages paid and no longer requiring staff to not be working? Is that right? My only question is if people are working, wouldn’t they be getting full pay? Little confused.

Why do you think their job is to only report news that’s positive for the government?

Fuck me. More than 1,000 excess deaths a DAY week up to May 1st. Wow. And that’s an improvement!