Face Masks not stopping the spread of Coronavirus.

[Returnofrros]

How is the SNP controlled Scottish Government going to pay back the £500 million that Kate Forbes the cabinet secretary for finance thinks that they should be permitted to do.
The other problem with the furlough scheme is that some firms are ‘milking it’
During the lockdown I phoned my bank using telephone banking and I received a recorded message stating that due to the lockdown they had greatly reduced numbers of staff. Two weeks ago when I last phoned the reduced staff due to the pandemic message was still being quoted. People still have to contact their bank and it is wrong that they are using the furlough scheme to bankroll their company instead of bringing in the necessary staff to man the phones.
Yesterday, 31st August 2020 swimming pools throughout Scotland were allowed to reopen for the first time since the start of the lockdown.
However the community run swimming pool in Bowmore Islay will not reopen for swimming until November as the management have decided to ‘milk’ the furlough scheme until it ends ob 31st October 2020. Amazingly the manager of the swimming pool stated this in an article in last Saturday’s Ileach details of which are shown on the enclosed Ileach website. http://www.ileach.co.uk/
I cannot believe that the manager has admitted this especially when taxes are going to rise to help pay back the cost of the furlough scheme.
If businesses have been given the go-ahead to reopen they should not be permitted to remain in the furlough scheme.
That might encourage them to get their premises back open for business instead of the taxpayer contributing towards the cost of their staff’s wages and salaries.

They will milk it as long as possible.

Every week that goes by it becomes increasingly difficult to get the economy going again.

The UK govt won't admit they made a mistake shutting a service economy down, the Scottish govt will use covid as an excuse for another referendum and deep down probably welcome the chaos and fear.

[BCram]

They will milk it as long as possible.

Every week that goes by it becomes increasingly difficult to get the economy going again.

The UK govt won't admit they made a mistake shutting a service economy down, the Scottish govt will use covid as an excuse for another referendum and deep down probably welcome the chaos and fear.

If this is the plan that they have I don't think it has any intellectual honesty. The money for furlough has already been borrowed and will over time have to be paid back. Scotland will have its share of that debt to service and any other portion of the U.K. National debt. We won't be starting with a clean slate unless we sell some assets. Oil reserves are dwindling, fishing rights might be valuable, but I can't see very much more apart from possibly renting the nuclear sub base at Faslane. Be funny to see how the Greens would react to that.

[islaydarkblue]

If this is the plan that they have I don't think it has any intellectual honesty. The money for furlough has already been borrowed and will over time have to be paid back. Scotland will have its share of that debt to service and any other portion of the U.K. National debt. We won't be starting with a clean slate unless we sell some assets. Oil reserves are dwindling, fishing rights might be valuable, but I can't see very much more apart from possibly renting the nuclear sub base at Faslane. Be funny to see how the Greens would react to that.

Patrick Harvie leader of the Greens will vote with any party that is in power as it makes him feel important.

[noahrab]

They will milk it as long as possible.

Every week that goes by it becomes increasingly difficult to get the economy going again.

The UK govt won't admit they made a mistake shutting a service economy down, the Scottish govt will use covid as an excuse for another referendum and deep down probably welcome the chaos and fear.

She’s told the LA’s to milk the furlough scheme.

Getting Westminster (who they hate...apparently) to pay the majority of LA wages.

Hope someone audits them.

[islaydarkblue]

She’s told the LA’s to milk the furlough scheme.

Getting Westminster (who they hate...apparently) to pay the majority of LA wages.

Hope someone audits them.

Next year we should be getting a reduction in our council tax.
One thing is obvious. Local councils are hopelessly overmanned and they should be making hundreds of their staff redundant as they have managed to carry on with many of their staff furloughed.
In fact o lot businesses may have realised that they can easily cope with a reduced number of staff in the future and they can blame the ending of the furlough scheme for making staff redundant.