Boris the buffoon ?

[lazy farmer]

As farmers, we are all pretty much carrying on with our normal lives?

Yeap. It’s been a very interesting period. Separated from my wife a
Month before lock down. Will be divorced shortly. Really enjoyed the peace of the empty roads during the first lock down and the amazing weather we had. Then during the open period I met someone new and amazing. We’ve bubbled every since.
Life is strange and wonderful in equal measure.

 

[czechmate]

Yeap. It’s been a very interesting period. Separated from my wife a
Month before lock down. Will be divorced shortly. Really enjoyed the peace of the empty roads during the first lock down and the amazing weather we had. Then during the open period I met someone new and amazing. We’ve bubbled every since.
Life is strange and wonderful in equal measure.

Wow. Sorry and well done

 

[robs1]

If you want something that could bring about a vaccine resistant mutation of the virus, giving people one jag is about as good as it gets.

Why and how do you think that works ?

 

[gone up the hill]

What a hero.


not

Your attitude is disgusting @lazy farmer

You really need to learn some empathy for other people who are not scared like a mouse in a mouse trap like you seem to be over the covid virus.

As an aside less than 20 people died with C 19 today... YET 450 people died WITH cancer today!

You need to get a grip lazy on your fear!

 

[stewart]

Probably paid for with an English subsidy, still hopefully not for too much longer!

Would that be the English subsidy where funds are generated from Scottish oil?

 

[BrianV]

Would that be the English subsidy where funds are generated from Scottish oil?

In that case independence will be doddle, after all what could possibly go wrong! My how we'll miss that constant whining.

 

[czechmate]

In that case independence will be doddle, after all what could possibly go wrong!

Why should it go wrong?
Slovakia for example

 

[BrianV]

Why should it go wrong?
Slovakia for example

An economic recipe to bankrupt Scotland
Sterlingisation is not a feasible option for an independent Scotland, writes Prof Ronald MacDonald
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Members from All Under One Banner take part in a demonstration for Scottish independence outside the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

I am in broad agreement with Larry Elliott’s analysis of the four macroeconomic regime options that an independent Scotland would face (Nicola Sturgeon should not limit Scotland’s economic options, 30 August). I would, though, question his claim that sterlingisation is a “feasible” option, particularly with Scotland’s fiscal deficit heading north of 25% of GDP due to the pandemic.
Scotland persistently runs a deficit on the current account of its balance of payments of around 10% of GDP (£16bn). Currently this deficit is settled by the UK. With independence, Scotland would be responsible for financing its twin fiscal and current account deficits.
Sterlingisation is a form of fixed exchange rate and therefore does not provide a balance-of-payments adjustment mechanism, and since an independent Scotland would also no longer have fiscal transfers from the rest of the UK, it would need large-scale borrowing to compensate.
However, financial markets would not regard a fixed exchange rate system combined with large twin deficits as credible, and this would produce a classic currency crisis in which sterlingisation would have to be abandoned and replaced with a new separate currency at a sharply devalued rate.
The combination of no external adjustment mechanism and large-scale borrowing in a foreign currency, along with a unitary probability of devaluation, is simply a recipe for national bankruptcy.
Prof Ronald MacDonald
Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow

 

[czechmate]

An economic recipe to bankrupt Scotland
Sterlingisation is not a feasible option for an independent Scotland, writes Prof Ronald MacDonald
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Members from All Under One Banner take part in a demonstration for Scottish independence outside the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

I am in broad agreement with Larry Elliott’s analysis of the four macroeconomic regime options that an independent Scotland would face (Nicola Sturgeon should not limit Scotland’s economic options, 30 August). I would, though, question his claim that sterlingisation is a “feasible” option, particularly with Scotland’s fiscal deficit heading north of 25% of GDP due to the pandemic.
Scotland persistently runs a deficit on the current account of its balance of payments of around 10% of GDP (£16bn). Currently this deficit is settled by the UK. With independence, Scotland would be responsible for financing its twin fiscal and current account deficits.
Sterlingisation is a form of fixed exchange rate and therefore does not provide a balance-of-payments adjustment mechanism, and since an independent Scotland would also no longer have fiscal transfers from the rest of the UK, it would need large-scale borrowing to compensate.
However, financial markets would not regard a fixed exchange rate system combined with large twin deficits as credible, and this would produce a classic currency crisis in which sterlingisation would have to be abandoned and replaced with a new separate currency at a sharply devalued rate.
The combination of no external adjustment mechanism and large-scale borrowing in a foreign currency, along with a unitary probability of devaluation, is simply a recipe for national bankruptcy.
Prof Ronald MacDonald
Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow

Why do you think Slovakia is so much better than Scotland ?

 

[lazy farmer]

Your attitude is disgusting @lazy farmer

You really need to learn some empathy for other people who are not scared like a mouse in a mouse trap like you seem to be over the covid virus.

As an aside less than 20 people died with C 19 today... YET 450 people died WITH cancer today!

You need to get a grip lazy on your fear!

No fear here. Just a recognition that I am part of a collective.

no surprise to see you on the outside shouting off about issues with no alternative valid solutions. You Jeremy Corbyn brother and Jeremy Corbyn should form a club.

 

[Mr Mackay]

Your attitude is disgusting @lazy farmer

You really need to learn some empathy for other people who are not scared like a mouse in a mouse trap like you seem to be over the covid virus.

As an aside less than 20 people died with C 19 today... YET 450 people died WITH cancer today!

You need to get a grip lazy on your fear!

Scared enough to not want to be vaccinated though

 

[essex man]

Scared enough to not want to be vaccinated though

?

 

[Lowland1]

You have not mentioned the Kenya variant that was discovered by their own scientists in late January. Perhaps you are not aware but it may have a bearing on the reasons for the red list inclusion.

Kenya a scapegoat for UK Covid failures | Business Daily

Nice article shows what developed nations think about poor nations

 

[Raider112]

Your attitude is disgusting @lazy farmer

You really need to learn some empathy for other people who are not scared like a mouse in a mouse trap like you seem to be over the covid virus.

As an aside less than 20 people died with C 19 today... YET 450 people died WITH cancer today!

You need to get a grip lazy on your fear!

And you need to learn some empathy with people who are being responsible and doing their bit to try to get some sort of normality back.
The reason we had 20 deaths today is because most of us took precautions when there was 2,000 deaths a day, the other alternative is to go for natural herd immunity like Brazil have tried, and look how that is turning out.
That's not fear and the attitude is as far away from disgusting as you can get, it's basic common sense.
Sometimes I think there are people who are happy with this situation just so that they can kick off.

 

[gone up the hill]

And you need to learn some empathy with people who are being responsible and doing their bit to try to get some sort of normality back.
The reason we had 20 deaths today is because most of us took precautions when there was 2,000 deaths a day, the other alternative is to go for natural herd immunity like Brazil have tried, and look how that is turning out.
That's not fear and the attitude is as far away from disgusting as you can get, it's basic common sense.
Sometimes I think there are people who are happy with this situation just so that they can kick off.

I do not think anyone is happy with the current situation regardless of which side of the fence you sit on ref the virus/ lockdowns etc.

Only thing that has slowed the death rate is the vaccine, in fact most of the rules have actually increased death rates of other illnesses/ suicides/ mental health issues etc.

Very clear that Lazy ( and fair play to him ) has done what is right for him and not everyone else by the fact he has bubbled with a new woman half way thru the very tight rules in the last 12 months, if he was doing what is right for everyone else he would not have done that and would have stayed single like millions of single people have stuck to the rules and done so the last 12 months!!...

 

[lazy farmer]

I do not think anyone is happy with the current situation regardless of which side of the fence you sit on ref the virus/ lockdowns etc.

Only thing that has slowed the death rate is the vaccine, in fact most of the rules have actually increased death rates of other illnesses/ suicides/ mental health issues etc.

Very clear that Lazy ( and fair play to him ) has done what is right for him and not everyone else by the fact he has bubbled with a new woman half way thru the very tight rules in the last 12 months, if he was doing what is right for everyone else he would not have done that and would have stayed single like millions of single people have stuck to the rules and done so the last 12 months!!...

Stuck to the rules all the way through. To the point that I didn’t see her over Christmas at all which was very very hard as she was alone and couldn’t see her family as it wasn’t a local trip.

 

[BrianV]

Stuck to the rules all the way through. To the point that I didn’t see her over Christmas at all which was very very hard as she was alone and couldn’t see her family as it wasn’t a local trip.

Let's be honest compared with all the protests & parties that have gone on we shouldn't be too concerned, there has to be a sense of proportion in all this madness!

 

[Lowland1]

And you need to learn some empathy with people who are being responsible and doing their bit to try to get some sort of normality back.
The reason we had 20 deaths today is because most of us took precautions when there was 2,000 deaths a day, the other alternative is to go for natural herd immunity like Brazil have tried, and look how that is turning out.
That's not fear and the attitude is as far away from disgusting as you can get, it's basic common sense.
Sometimes I think there are people who are happy with this situation just so that they can kick off.

Brazil, Brazil, Brazil yep it’s bad and it’s understandable why but there are lots of other countries where it isn’t however no one wants to look at these and why it hasn’t taken hold like it has elsewhere. Everyone wants to look for the doomsday scenario rather than working through the problem.

 

[Raider112]

Brazil, Brazil, Brazil yep it’s bad and it’s understandable why but there are lots of other countries where it isn’t however no one wants to look at these and why it hasn’t taken hold like it has elsewhere. Everyone wants to look for the doomsday scenario rather than working through the problem.

It's more of a case that if you have a problem you have to react. The few countries who have got away lightly are a different matter.

 

[le bon paysan]