The end of Furlough

Yesterday,The Chancellor announced the end of the Furlough scheme which had paid 80% of many people's salaries for the last 6 months.

There is a new scheme, but people will have to work at least a third of their normal hours.

Beyond that it gets complicated.

But the Government says it will only support "viable" jobs, meaning only if employers are willing to stump up the cahs do you have a job.

Untold hundreds of thousands of people will lose their job on October 31st, just two months before Brexit, with those companies still going trying to overcome the COVID crisis before looking to Brexit.

The same people who are demanding that people risk life and limb to return to work are also happy that Brexit does far worse damage to the economy and people.

It is madness, no two ways about it.

And the headbangers think its fine, and it seems that the same headbangers of the ERG have formed the Common Sense Group who are detirmed that the restrictions become voluntary, as it seems that wearing a mask is like wearing a muzzle and infringes their freedom to be dicks, while they are perfectly happy to remove the freedom for the rest of us to live in 27 other countries.

It the brazeness of it that gets me.

Meanwhile the infection rate for the 24th September was 6,600 here in the UK, the highest daily rate of new infections the whole pandemic.

Testing is collapsing.

Only a third of those tested get the result back in under 24 hours.

Track and trace still doesn't work, a new version is being rolled out but will only work on phones less than 5 years old. And that's before we get onto the data issues.

Suella Braverman, the Attorney General, made a statement in the Commons yesterday defending the Government's decision to break international law. Breaking internatioanl law by HM Government was, apparently, "entirely lawful". This week's Private Eye suggests Suella Braverman will be asked to resign from the Bar Council. She is, like so many in the Cabinet, a puppet of Cummings and Gove and has brought her profession into disrepute.

She also claims that, "Braverman claims opposition to breaking international (and national law) is unpatriotic". She is the one being unpatriotic. From Magna Carta onwards our governments have been constrained by the rule of law. It is tyrants who put themselves above the law.