Coronavirus meme/panic/fear mongering general thread
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Shitehawks at the Diner 2
Anju
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Not sure if you know SE London but I was fitting a post box outside a closed nursery a couple of hours ago on the A2 at the bottom of the hill heading towards blackheath and out of London. Traffic was close to normal levels!
Anju
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From a researcher getting upset because people are not happy with the £10,000 working from home allowance for MPs.
She seems to resent having to help people with enquiries about "bloody coronavirus"
Fuck her.
"Copied from Kerri Prince
MPs are not being paid an extra £10k to work from home.
Please read the actual article, not the headline.
It's to pay for the laptops and printers MPs staff need to work from home during this global pandemic, so that we can help people with their benefits, employment enquiries, housing problems, and the extra 200 enquiries we are getting a day about bloody coronavirus."
She seems to resent having to help people with enquiries about "bloody coronavirus"
Fuck her.
"Copied from Kerri Prince
MPs are not being paid an extra £10k to work from home.
Please read the actual article, not the headline.
It's to pay for the laptops and printers MPs staff need to work from home during this global pandemic, so that we can help people with their benefits, employment enquiries, housing problems, and the extra 200 enquiries we are getting a day about bloody coronavirus."
They are more than well paid and supplied already
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Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
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Anju
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Exactly. I doubt there's a single person working in HOP who doesn't have a laptop and broadband.
Where's the money for all the businesses that have had to set up people to work from home.
It's just an excuse to buy a new laptop for MPs friends and family who do a couple of hours work a day for a good salary.
but touching face is not recommended at the moment
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Nice work if you can get it. I paid for this chair I sit in MYSELF. And the desk on which I work. And the computer. And the monitors. And the internet. And the router, hub, switch, cabling, wireless cards and the cost of fixing things (OK, I do that myself).
I also pay for the heat, the light, the rent, and the cups of tea I drink through the day.
And I've never begrudged it. But then I didn't realise that someone could be GIVEN £10k to do all that. Give me £10k to do all that, and I'll have change from 80% of it. Fuck you, MPs.
Anju
Well-Known Member
They didn't offer any help to businesses who must have had to spend a fortune arranging for people to work from home and they will often have to spend of ways of giving access to their IT infrastructure not just being able to send a few emails with stock responses. MPs might have a couple of staff.
Companies can pay £6 per week to employees working from home before it becomes taxable income for them.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
Needs a Biscuitville.
I hope they do delivery
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Don't forget we're all in this together though.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
No fucking MP's sitting in MY chair, paid for with my own (taxable) income, dammit
Joking apart, I am appalled at the blatancy of it - I simply cannot believe that no-one involved in the process didn't stop and go "Hmm, half the country's suddenly got no work, we've got 1.2m UC claimants, is awarding ourselves a ten grand expenses bonus going to go down all that well?".
Or perhaps they did, and thought, "Fuck 'em, they're only citizens."
ETA: I reserve for MPs (pretty well all of them) a similar level of disdain to the one SpookyFrank has for policemen and people who don't cycle. AMPAB, etc.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
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