Clubs still allowing sailing

Well put TT. 

Originally posted by H2 I am happy to clap for the NHS as they deserve it.  But it does grate a little that in a year or two people will be banging on again about how they need to tax the rich to pay for all the costs when it is the entrepreneurs who are risking everything right now to keep the economy going. What chance that people come out to say thanks to those driving the economy forward? Thought not, they prefer to vilify us as fat cats

Yup - those same people trying to drive the economy and generate wealth are to be targeted by dear Ricki (having given then SFA whilst handing out wads of cash to everyone else)

A mate of mine was in all sorts of strife with the VAT man, Inland Revenue etc - to the point that he offered them his office keys and told them to FO

He provides income to 20 families but the tax men openly admitted its easier for them to investigate, get their teeth into and fine 1000 small businesses than try to take on just one major corporation who pay SFA taxes in the UK

Perfect incentive for would be entrepeneurs to give up and drop back to the PAYE treadmill

I am happy to clap for the NHS as they deserve it. 

I've heard quite a number of people saying that this is the best spring they've ever had - great weather, sitting at home on 80% of salary, not spending money etc etc

What these people seem to have forgotten, or not understood, is that when the government assistance stops many companies will be looking around and suddenly this 'great spring' may turn into the 'worst few years' for many many people as businesses go pop or making sweeping cuts

I was also astonished about the generosity of the 80% assistance but wages are regularly a small part of running businesses who, without work, will be shedding staff by the truck load shortly

Those working will then not only be paying for the unemployed but also repaying the government's recent generous handouts

Utter joy

So here’s a rare moment of me supporting if not entirely agreeing with IGRF. The Imperial College paper led by Ferguson has a fundamental problem as the basis of long-term planning (lockdown was absolutely the right decision given everything we did not know.

It proposes a solution which will not work! It says so itself!