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[hibsbollah]

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If you are a dog then aye.

post of the week

[CropleyWasGod]

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A friend of my wife has said that dog groomers are allowed to work!! Are they essential workers??

At a ruff guess?

[Mon Dieu4]

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To be fair, though, when the **** first hit the fan, people were genuinely concerned that they might not have the income to cover their mortgage. In hindsight, they might see things differently, but I don't think they can be blamed for accepting the help that was being offered.

I would agree in the whole but I work in quite a niche market, means I can see just how much people have to play with, lots of them were purely taking it as it was there, no concerns over money in any way

[greenlex]

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Ahh thought as much.

People are nothing but predictable. Despite the option pretty much always being there as soon as it’s plastered all over the news they get the wee idea in their head and jump on the phone to the bank.

I’m sure though that lots are genuinely very welcome of the breathing room.

Banks also starting to ramp up their estimates on bad loans, just the tip of the iceberg on that front as well I’d expect.

So a mega whammy for the banks, just when they thought margins were going to fatten up and PPI finally in the rear view...up this pops hammering their interest margin and whacking huge losses onto their loans books across all of their lending types.

Not that anyone will be shedding a tear for them and that’s what their capital buffers are for but ultimately sick banks are rarely good for the economy. Married with governments loaded with huge new debt piles the impact of these few weeks and months could be felt for a very long time indeed.

I thought the government ( well the taxpayer inevitably) were guaranteeing 80% of the loans with the bank the balance and in cases of small business loans from 2k to 50k the whole 100%? I’ll not cry too much for the banks or big business.

[Sir David Gray]

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Again my wife has had indicated to her by her employer that they are looking to partially open from 11th May.

It seems that they have contacts in high places.

What does your wife do?

[CropleyWasGod]

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I would agree in the whole but I work in quite a niche market, means I can see just how much people have to play with, lots of them were purely taking it as it was there, no concerns over money in any way

See for those folk, can you slip a couple of percentage points onto their rate? 😉

[DH1875]

Are garages that fix and repair motors still open?

[Sylar]

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Are garages that fix and repair motors still open?

They certainly are in our town...appointment only right enough.

[Pretty Boy]

I regularly check Flight Radar 24 as I'm a bit of a plane geek. There are currently only 2 flights over Scottish airspace: a Loganair flight from Edinburgh to East Midlands and a military flight that departed from Brize Norton and must be on a manoeuvre of some sort as it is on a strange route over the south west of Scotland near to Prestwick. There's only a dozen flights over the entirity of the UK, 2 of which are military planes and 2 are privately registered aircraft. The whole of Europe is pretty dead in the skies with only 3 planes over Spain and Portugal. Only Germany looks relatively busy and even then it's nothing compared to usual.

[Mon Dieu4]

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See for those folk, can you slip a couple of percentage points onto their rate? 😉

In days gone by I genuinely could have haha but sadly times have changed

[Sir David Gray]

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Are garages that fix and repair motors still open?

They're classed as an essential service so they are allowed to remain open.

Some of them have still closed though.

[Smartie]

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See for those folk, can you slip a couple of percentage points onto their rate? 😉

In fairness to the guy who was my relationship manager (bank reshuffle at the end of March) he took exception to some of what his clients were proposing to do (ie taking the piss) so he wasn't exactly going to put the most positive case forward to credit.

[HibernianJK]

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Should she ask permission to protect the people of Scotland?


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The tweet of a man who knows Sturgeon has completely outshone the UK govt, in terms of leadership at the very least, during this pandemic.

[Hibrandenburg]

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I wouldn't be so sure. One of my (French) mates is an educator in a home for the mentally handicapped. He hasn't had so much as a paper mask from the state. His wife's a mobile nurse (or whatever you call them) - same story.

Is it as bad as the UK over there, I had the impression they were much better equipped and organised?

[Berwickhibby]

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Should she ask permission to protect the people of Scotland?


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I am not a fan of Sturgeon or the SNP, however she has been a strong leader during this crisis and went up greatly in my estimation. I am sick of so called journalists etc sitting on keyboards snipinig.

[Hibrandenburg]

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Or maybe just do a slightly more German thing and go naked..

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.t...-ppe-shortages

Incredibly German.

[Peevemor]

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Is it as bad as the UK over there, I had the impression they were much better equipped and organised?

Much the same from what I can see. I think both countries made mistakes and we're caught on the hop.

[Hibrandenburg]

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Much the same from what I can see. I think both countries made mistakes and we're caught on the hop.

Tragic, looks like the infection and mortality rates are very similar too.

[Future17]

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The tweet of a man who knows Sturgeon has completely outshone the UK govt, in terms of leadership at the very least, during this pandemic.

I'm not sure suggesting you might want to cover your face in confined spaces, however many weeks after it was first discussed, is great leadership.

[HibernianJK]

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I'm not sure suggesting you might want to cover your face in confined spaces, however many weeks after it was first discussed, is great leadership.

That’s not really what I said though was it?

[Kato]

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I'm not sure suggesting you might want to cover your face in confined spaces, however many weeks after it was first discussed, is great leadership.

Timing though. Like that time Boris covered his face by hiding.

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[Bostonhibby]

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I am not a fan of Sturgeon or the SNP, however she has been a strong leader during this crisis and went up greatly in my estimation. I am sick of so called journalists etc sitting on keyboards snipinig.

I don't support her, have no reason to do so, but as an avid observer of the news from both sides of the border the leadership she provides is light years ahead of the haphazard reactive equivalent in England.

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[Hiber-nation]

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Are garages that fix and repair motors still open?

Steins in Gordon Street is open - email Craig at [email protected].

[HendoDelivered]

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A friend of my wife has said that dog groomers are allowed to work!! Are they essential workers??

My local one is anyway. Open that is.

[lord bunberry]

Bojo becomes a father again, that’ll be him off for another 2 weeks.

[Ozyhibby]

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Bojo becomes a father again, that’ll be him off for another 2 weeks.

Will we notice the difference?


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[lord bunberry]

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Will we notice the difference?


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Nope.

[Future17]

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That’s not really what I said though was it?

I didn't say you said it, but seeing as you raised it, "completely outshone the UK govt, in terms of leadership at least" suggests to me that you think Sturgeon has shown great leadership.

I know it's a low bar versus the UK Government but, if you don't think that, what did you mean?

[ronaldo7]

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I'm not sure suggesting you might want to cover your face in confined spaces, however many weeks after it was first discussed, is great leadership.

I think it might be that the SAGE advice changed last week. This would then have been discussed within the resilience group, and the slight change made.

[Betty Boop]

Sturgeon and Leitch want to get on the same page. He was telling us last week that wearing masks was pointless.