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Originally Posted by papa smurf
When the furlough scheme ends the crap will hit the fan, i see mass unemployment for the foreseeable future  |
And that's the thing - Government pays either way. Ending furlough isn't a magic bullet for the public purse.
It's a choice between paying more, for a shorter period of time and getting the virus under control. Or paying out less over a longer period of time with a later and slower economic recovery as by then the factors causing the economic downturn become entrenched.