Coronavirus

[Oracle]

Steph. I won’t go blow for blow. You know my views

But you may recollect the NEU said just that. As a list of 100 demands to return to work “ no homework to be marked was included” . No matter whether negotiated or not it proves bad faith.

The simple statement should have been, schools like loo roll factories stay open. Now what must we do to make that happen? Instead 30 percent of teaching staff self isolated taking advantage of a holiday, screwing others who must work to eat but now must look after kids. So the schools closed.

Brown followed the FED into the same central bank cheap money culdesac, and the Cheap money bubble blew up in their faces. Bernanke and others have since admitted the fed created the problem, and their “ cure “ of cheap money was worse than the disease, That much is history, We are now in so deep we can never get out. Country debt is so big, it can never allow sensible interest rates. There is a trillion public pension deficit based on the return. It was a disgrace brown blaming companies for his decision to destroy pensions. The euro is bust and many banks with it, many have never recovered.
So yes, it was all browns fault. He stole my pension.

MPs have created millions who rely on equity returns, who are getting hammered. Whilst MPs and the public sector all thieve a pension bigger than they pay in tax.

ALL MPs are to blame for failure to deal with the problem. they created zero savings return. They should halve their own pensions to allow for it, and with it all public sector. I am just as critical of Hammond for failing to deal with browns problem. Too much of a vested interest.

I think you take yourself too seriously, it’s just some comments on what I observe.

Let’s take one of your oft quoted demons….. the variety of Scientific advice given to Govt/Boris…., if, as you appear to have, a scientific background you will be aware that this is how scientists behave, even where the full “pedigree” of the process or problem is known there will still be widely differing and opposing views. For something not as well understood, like Covid, the divergence will be very wide. I have no problem with you posting this, however I object when you continually refer to this as some terrible misdeed on the government when it is an expected norm.

The Brown pension problem, again oft repeated, Brown was chancellor from 1997 and PM from 2007, this is not his problem, it has been about far longer than that, as an example I worked for a company with many thousands of employees who recognised & addressed the pension problem 15 years before Brown.

Children missing out on education is not good, everyone agrees, but to continually blame the Teachers unions, oh my, they are devils aren’t they, is it really their problem? if among their 100’s of demands they said we refuse to mark any pupils work I think even I could negotiate my way round that. From what I read on the Scottish Govt website there was a similar initial impasse but after a week or so the two sides agreed a way forward, the demands were a bit over the top but understandable given the virus. But you don’t rate nippy Nicola, again oft repeated.

Again I agree industry will be severely impacted with consequences for all of us, and will be worse for those who are more vulnerable.

I certainly do not laugh at financial instability; I do laugh when you blame everything and anything on the left and I do hope the current lot in power improve.

I have no problem with opposing views, there’s good info in a lot of your posts (whether I agree with it or not), and it stimulates a lively forum discussion, I do have a problem with oft repeated guff.