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Originally Posted by jfman
My stance of protecting jobs and businesses remains the same, yes.
Empty nightclubs don’t make money. Neither do coffee shops in city centres next to empty glass office blocks.
I’m not sure what you mean by “rolling in” - I’m financially unaffected by any of the measures I support for businesses or employees affected by restrictions. However, unlike yourself in the ivory tower, I don’t think employees on universal credit and businesses going bankrupt is the long term economically positive outcome you think it is.
They’re not going to lower our tax bill Pierre. We are £2 trillion in debt with no sustainable plan to pay it, what makes £2.5 trillion is the cut off where they decide you need to pay it back?
Ultimately though as you say you don’t care, it’s not about health, or economics, you just hate state intervention even where it is beneficial. There’s no real reason to feign interest in people you have such absolute disregard and contempt for.
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Businesses will have more chance of surviving if they got themselves back to normal again. If they have too many people on their books, those people need to look for alternative employment. We are told it's a workers' market out there, with an unprecedented number of vacancies.
The only area I can think of where continued furlough payments could be justified is in the travel industry, because it's the government that is imposing restrictions which severely limits the profitability and employment needs of these businesses.
It's strange that you are suddenly so concerned about the economy when you were spouting forth a little while ago how spending all this money was of no consequence. At such low levels of interest rates, you said, it would cost us nothing. I think you forgot that loans still had to be paid back!