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I'm a demisexual other-kin. Can I participate?

Can you furlough yourself? I'm a company director and I wasn't sure.

Probably for the best that he's taking a break.

Thanks for that

That's a tough one. Our head admin person is one of the few we haven't put on furlough for that reason. Does someone else know how to do it? You could maybe do it unofficially. I think it's a bit dodgy with furlough but my hope is that there is a recognition of this emergency situation.

Managed to speak to someone this morning. I've been told by HMRC that all tax liability is automatically deferred from 20th March until 20th June. Not sure if that includes NI for staff on furlough though. Still have to pay NEST pension contributions apparently.

Well I've got no idea. We have enough cash with no business rates and with less electricity, gas etc to pay everyone for the next three months but not sure after that. Let's hope we can have some semblence of normality from June for at least a little while.

Does soggy have the virus? No word from him in over a week.

That was my original thought but my understanding is that everyone gets full pay and 80% of it is subsidised. That's what my accountant said anyway. Happy to be told otherwise thoigh. Very difficult to know the truth in all this. Its really hard, I haven't ever had to make decisions loke this before.

It's an absolutely massive thing to basically make up in a week or two so I'm not surprised it's light on detail. My focus is on keeping my staff in a job and keeping them healthy and safe as much as possible. Currently I have enough resources to do that for the next three months then we will see what happens after that. I assume the employer will still have to pay everything like normal and the government just reimburses you for 80%. I hope so anyway.

That's an issue I have. Some of the staff have said that if it comes to it in an emergency situation that they will volunteer but I'm not sure where we stand on that legally.

I believe we have to pay staff as normal and then get reimbursed by the government for 80% of wages. I was told this will be happening next month but it's all a bit wait and see at the moment.

Has he said it how it is? In reality no one really knows until we see death tolls.

Yep. About 90 of my staff are now on furlough. Should be comfortable for at least three months with the government measures. May struggle if its extended to six

Like you say that's a separate issue with its own pros and cons. Corbynism was roundly rejected by the public and thank goodness he isn't in charge of all this.

Yes that will be a percentage but some will obviously be deterred if those who can afford it are fined and if necessary imprisoned. It's not good enough to say that some have mental health issues so we might as well not do anything. Collecting fines for things like missed appointments and penalising trusts for excessive wastefullness would be good too. Remove the sense of entitlement that people feel- "we pay your wages" shouted at policemen and NHS staff for example- and you will see an improvement albeit with many other problems still to solve.

Charging for abuse of the NHS is a great idea and should be done as soon as this is all over.

It's the same with things like childcare. There's an entitlement culture in this country where peoppeoplp go into a childcare setting and demand that they are given the 30 hours "free" they are entitled to and then start instructing the nursery how it should run. This contrasts with somewhere like Sweden where parents are told to bugger off and leave it to the professionals who know what they are talking about. It would be good if many people in this country realise how good they have it and feel fortunate to be given certain things rather than just taking them for granted.

It's the same with things like childcare. There's an entitlement culture in this country where people go into a childcare setting and demand that they are given the 30 hours "free" they are entitled to and then start instructing the nursery how it should run. This contrasts with somewhere like Sweden where parents are told to bugger off and leave it to the professionals who know what they are talking about. It would be good if many people in this country realise how good they have it and feel fortunate to be given certain things rather than just taking them for granted.

That isn't what I said was it. It's not about eliminating any problems, it's about improving the current situation. It would certainly help to change attitudes if people were charged for missed appointments for example or doctors have to give a greater justification for use of medication. People use and abuse the NHS because they can. Of course there are pressures from living longer and maybe we can have discussions about that once all the wastage has been removed. I don't know if the NHS is like other parts of the public sector but I know that the council gets hideously overcharged for any sort of infrastructure projects because they are obliged to get three quotes for everything and inevitably they are quoted ridiculous prices because they know that they have no choice but to pay it. The government stopping stuff like that would help too.

I'd certainly like to see the NHS moved from a model where service is expected in every case into one where people are assessed based on actual need and give priority for cases that actually require treatment and are serious.

Thank goodness. That's been playing on my mind all week.

Maybe add the extra games onto next season, cancel the league Cup and no replays in fa Cup with a few midweek games. Could easily accomplish that.

He might be very competent and assured behind closed doors but with things like this presentation is key.

Saddest thing for me is my little girl who can't see any of her relatives and a significant portion of her life is going to be lived in this new reality.