Vince Green

Yes unbelievable

This is going to be a twenty year blip in the housing market. BTL was dead before this all started, now its double dead and that is going to cause a huge shortfall in the accommodation market.

Its the same with the Scots, still bearing a grudge because of things that happened hundreds of years ago, and mostly things they started

I'm surprised about the death toll of London bus drivers because they don't take money, its all contactless, and they already sit behind a thick Perspex security screen that seals them away from the passengers so I would have thought they were better protected than most key workers already. Also, though, they do get free travel off duty or to and from work and I do wonder if that is the real source of their infections. Personally you wouldn't get me anywhere near public transport in London at the moment

Having been involved in the trade union movement when I was younger, I was always amazed at how bitter and twisted the views of many of the activists were that I encountered.. This ^^^^

I know of three deaths now, two members of East Barnet club have died and somebody I used to work with years ago. All described as from Covid 19. Maybe another one too, the friend I have known since I was 16 who died last week still hasn't been confirmed.

At the moment I am in a flat in London on lockdown, its a private block of four flats. The family in one of the ground floor flats has a little girl about five years old. Yesterday she was playing in the communal garden with two other kids and the three mums were sitting outside on a little patio area. Hardly a major crime but some people simply don't understand the rules. Its the same as people having picnics in the parks at the weekend.

I've just been to the chemist to collect a prescription, there was nobody else there, I was surprised. Expected a queue

I've been to Charlotte, my friend Steve used to live there when he first went to USA about 35 years ago.

South Carolina is beautiful, very oldy worldy American, like going back into a retro movie. People still wear boots and cowboy hats but, and its a big but, you have to realise you are going back in time by 50 years in terms of attitudes, its very different. Quaint for a holiday, but I would find it wearing. As an alien you are not allowed to own guns in USA, its a Federal offence.

That's a knee jerk reaction to everything that happens in USA

This is what the police are up against https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/east-london-newham-party-lockdown-social-distancing-a4407201.html also, Brockwell Park in south London will be closed today after 3000 people decended on it yesterday in the sunshine, many of them sumbathing and picnicking in large groups THEY JUST DON'T GET IT

How are you going to get any at the moment?

But Cornwall is considered safer and lower risk, if its your family and you can get a cottage for £200 per week because the owners are discounting it. What would you do?

The head of Tourism in Cornwall has criticised Airbnb for still advertising and taking bookings for accommodation in Cornwall despite the lockdown. People with kids off school and "working from home" are still pouring into the County causing a huge amount of bad feeling.

The thing is you don't NEED to take your dog to the park by car. Its not complicated

Yes I'm sure it will do somebody a good turn

Yes Corbyn in a skirt

Yes I hadn't thought of the implications for the EU, it will be massive. End of free movement, probable collapse of the banks etc

Cant say I'm getting excited. Except Rebecca Long Bailey would be an absolute gift

Its becoming very real now. I had an email today to say a long standing member of the club I shoot at on Wednesdays has died from the virus. I heard yesterday that someone I had known since I was 16 had died. They didn't say whether its due to the virus or not but it was certainly not expected.

I would be up for trying a 500 tub or two.

It varies what people will pay, we just weigh a lot our brass in for scrap because nobody seems to want to reload it anymore. Mainly because there is no cost saving to be had. I do have several friends in Wales who still reload because the supply of factory ammo is sparse and much more expensive for some reason.

Its my understanding that migrant agricultural workers would still be allowed after Brexit. As would workers in all the service sector, the only difference would be the documentation required.

The fallout will be huge, both in financial devastation and the time it takes to get back to "normal" whatever "normal" means. For many people, even if they and their loved ones are not infected it will change their lives forever.