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Nevermind the bo____ks, nevermind the source pick what you want out of that article, nobody is denying the overall content.
For all the EU lovers this must make uncomfortable reading and just shows the fragility of European dream.
Four freedoms, forget it when the chips are down you'll find out who your friends are and this explodes the myth that you remain suckers are still clinging onto.
Their only response is more regulation, more integration a complete federal Europe.
Good post Madpunter.

We may be rudderless for a while however with the depth of talent in this government you can all rest easy folks.
Just imagine if the other lot were incharge, you could have had Dianne Abbott running the show. Now that's something to bring you to your senses surely.

Ventilators, it's not about bulk buying it's all about bulk manufacturing, you lefty numbskulls.

I just despair at all the unfortunate losers on here who are still trying to cling onto the Marxist dream of the Corbyn/McDonnell era.
They are well past their sell buy date, yet the MSM keep parading them out to give their twopenny worth.
Seriously, could you imagine that rabble trying to contain this disaster?
Without doubt history will show that the great British public got it so right last December.
Oh, have they got a new leader yet?
Lol.

As usual the guardian got the story wrong again. Never let up a chance to **** the Tories.
"Owing to an initial communication problem, the UK did not receive an invitation in time to join in four joint procurements in response to the coronavirus pandemic," a government spokesman said in a statement. The European Commission had now confirmed to Britain it was eligible for the schemes, the spokesman said.
(Reuters)

Another dobber surfaces.

Funny how things change, the protectionist EU now want more cooperation from all nations.
Being the synic that I am, the only reason they (the EU) want our involvement is because they remember we were the second highest contributer to the EU coffers.
In short they want our money to subsidize the poorer countries in their doomed experiment.
Just look at all the EU projects & programmes we've been excluded from they couldn't wait to kick us out.
What goes around comes around.
They are already changing their fiscal policies they know they are in trouble because the Euro can't work.

That illustrates all you need to know.

Must be getting quite a collection in the AllWids Fckmeoldboots folder :-)

Just reading through, for info, the USA NFP are not due until April 3rd.
Today's jobless figures released today are just the Initial jobless claims that Indicates unemployment insurance claims in the last week.
A good indicator of the NFP due a week tomorrow.

USA Initial jobless claims released today. Indicates unemployment insurance claims in the last week.
A good indicator of the NFP due April 3rd.

I know there is time yet but where's the 20p brigade, it's gone a bit quiet lately.
PS. I guess we're all waiting for 12.30. today.

None specific really, just your association in general with birds/bees and some of your post contents.

Muscorum, I can't help noticing that apart from wildlife sites your main source of information seems to come from the Guardian.
Just saying.

Just nudging Lagarde in the right direction.

‘The challenge we face now is how to act now with sufficient strength and speed to prevent the recession from morphing into a prolonged depression, made deeper by a plethora of defaults leaving irreversible damage.
the solution will inevitably require a significant rise in public debt. Meanwhile, the loss of income incurred by the private sector, including any debt raised to fill the hole, will need to be absorbed by government balance sheets.
Here’s what Mario Draghi says Europe must do now to prevent coronavirus recession ‘from morphing into a prolonged depression’

https://on.mktw.net/3aiV8yR

Hurry up JR your leader is up now, pay attention and you might learn something.

Apologies if posted before, but this maybe relevant to the discussion.

As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.

The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.

The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid

Only 17.76% Roo everyone loves a braggart, don't tell us you bought Prudential before the rise.
Two can play that game, for info, RDSB went up nearly 23% bought some last Thursday, discussed on here actually.
Just saying.

As usual European finance minister's failing.
They decided the urgency to act was so great that they are going to do absolutely nothing.

They are going to monitor the situation and watch.

Snige, when this disaster started unfurling the oppositions stance was predictable, 'this is the result of 10 years of austerity.'
No country's health service is going to stockpile excess equipment/supplies for what, oh yeah just in case.
The way Labour started here, scoring political points, it seems they may have changed their mind somewhat.
But seriously did you expect past government's to store ventilators and testing kits for, say, the last 20 years just in case.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Why not build a few hundred IC Units and have a few thousand fully trained nurses and doctors on standby just in case.

A reminder, Labour are still in disarray and are not an effective opposition, as I said they still haven't elected a new leader yet.
If they get themselves sorted perhaps they can reform and have a coherent policy themselves, until then it's all hindsight.

Companies scrapping payouts to save cash include -
Kingfisher
William Hill
ITV
Stagecoach
Go-Ahead
Intu
N Brown.
Travis Perkins
Crest Nicolson
M&S.
Micro Focus
Hammerson
Travis Perkins
InterContinental Hotels

Probably loads more but Lloyds is not on the list............... well not yet.