Och Aye

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Remember the gloves?

If you take 3 month mortgage holiday your monthly mortgage payments will increase when you restart so if you want the same profit rent will have to be increased. So changes in contractual rental agreements required. Could get a bit messy.

Lock down begining to break some people!

Definitely. Another culinary delight is square sausage and beans on a roll. Messy but good.

They waited till April to ask private companies if they were able to provide in the manufacture of ventilators. Can you imagine if this country suffered a biological/chemical attack? Remember the terriorist fear stories a few years back, dirtybomb being the buzzword. They didn't have a emergency measures in place? 🤔 So it's either gross incompetence or there is a sinister motive behind this absurd response.

Just a wee nod to Tim Brooke Taylor who has passed away.

I'm destined never to know what happened at the end of that Robinson Crusoe program. Just going to assume a ship came along and picked him and Man Friday up. Anyway here's another memory for us auld farts.

When STV used to start in the morning.

Every school summer holidays watched this Robinson Crusoe but because the Scottish schools went back earlier than English schools never seen the end. Did he ever get off that feckin island?

Fraud during these grant applications will be hammered. Navigation Furlough: HMRC clarifies TUPE rules and warns against fraud By Ashleigh Webber on 9 Apr 2020 in Furlough, Coronavirus, Latest News, TUPE Shutterstock Employees who were transferred to another organisation under TUPE after 28 February 2020 can receive 80% of their wages while furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, it has been signalled. The government’s furlough claims portal will be launched on 20 April, HM Revenue & Customs has also revealed. Furlough Furlough scheme could cost up to £40 billion Furlough: what the updated guidance clarifies, and what it doesn’t According to an email from the Treasury to David Johnston, MP for Wantage in Oxfordshire, which addressed the issue of TUPE, the new employer can submit a claim for 80% of wages for furloughed employees even if they were not on that organisation’s payroll on the 28 February cut-off date because they have since been TUPE’d. The email says that the staff are “eligible for the CJRS”. Prior to this, there had been confusion around how TUPE affected employees’ eligibility under the scheme. Barrister Daniel Barnett from Outer Temple Chambers highlighted the issue on his Employment Law Matters podcast. He said: “Who pays? Not the transferer because the transferer won’t have paid them any salary [beyond 28 February]. “Under the scheme as it stands, the new employer can’t claim either as the employees wouldn’t have been on their payroll as of the 28 Feb. “It’s a loophole; something the government hadn’t considered originally and it’s an odd result.” Barnett said the Treasury was expected to publish a further update to its Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme guidance to clarify the matter. The Treasury has been approached for comment. Meanwhile, the government is likely to launch its furlough claims portal on 20 April, with the first wage payments made to employers likely to be made on 30 April. A guidance document is expected to be published by HMRC in the next week. HMRC has said any fraudulent claims made under the scheme – for example, where employees have continued to work while furloughed – are likely to result in criminal convictions. Its chief executive Jim Harra, told the Treasury select committee yesterday (8 April) that he expected it to be targeted by fraudsters. “We are going to be paying out a vast sum of money in a rapid period of time. Any scheme like this is a target for organised crime. Any scheme that pays out I’m afraid attracts criminals that want to defraud it and people that are genuinely entitled to it who inflate their claims,” he said. He said HMRC had put in place a number of measures to minimise fraud, which included: the requirement for an employer to have already been authenticated by HMRC a four- to six-day payment processing period to allow background checks checks on employers after a payout has been made to verify a claim was real. Harra reiterated that employees who had been furloughed must not carry out any work for their organisation, and urged those who had been asked to continue working while on furlough to report their employer. He said: “We are aware that some employees have already been reporting that some employers have asked them to work during the furlough period. We expect the vast majority of employers to do the right thing and in fact in many cases they have no choice because people are genuinely furloughed and cannot work. “But we will be asking anyone who’s got information about the scheme being abused to let us know and there is an online hotline service for any employee who feels they are being asked to be complicit in something they don’t want to be complicit in.

I see they are now using the term depression rather than recession. Can't see anything but a depression coming unfortunately.

Can imagine the types mouthing off about this. It's getting paid through HMRC so good luck to them if they fancy their chances. They'll end up on the losing side. As Al Capone said - don't fuck with the tax people.

That's rotten hopefully they'll look at that again. Take it you've done mortgage and car finance 3 month break if applicable.

Sorry never seen your previous post. Funnily enough I'm close to that figure too. By the time I pay March bill to my suppliers and restock when I start back it should just about cover it (suppliers been great not even sent March invoices - they are still trading well tho thankfully). Not paying rates may turn out to be a blessing over the next few years. I fear for some businesses and I certainly won't be touching the government loan. Sore head may have been partly down to vodka 😄👍

You won't. They are giving grants to those who pay rates because they will claw it all back when rates rocket over the next few years. They're paying employees 80% because they will claw it all back when income tax and NI contrabutions rocket over the next few years. Its more difficult to claw back money from the self employed but they'll come up with something. All you'll get is your average 3 months profit from your past 3 years self assessments. So add your past 3 financial years profits divide it by 36 and multiply it by 3. You should get that amount paid to you some time in June. Hope that makes sense, it gave me a sore head writing it!!! 😲

Darren Randolph for me too for keeper. Can't pick between Tommy Coyne and Miodrag Kravocopic tho. Claret and Amber specs on obviously.

Surely they must already be sealed off?

Regards the high death rate on London transport. There have been videos of many countries spraying and scrubbing roads and pavements. Seen yesterday a comment about the virus lasting longer than expected on outside surfaces particularly asphalt with advice to remove your outdoor shoes before entering your house. Could the virus be thrown up and entering the drivers cab through ventilation?

Ach I was hoping for some interesting news about Motherwell here.

Did the house party app thing was good to see and hear folk, have drink a talk pish again. One of the guys even made up a wee pub quiz (alot Motherwell related)

Condolences Slasher. The funeral director should offer you the option of having a memorial service at a later date if you wish.

That's great it went well Scotty.

That's good mate and a relief. Of my close family (none living with me, older kids, brother and in laws) 5 are key workers. My only worry now is them.