So would I, but that wasnât the reality.
Easy to do if itâs not your money and you know you wonât be held accountable.
Welcome to public sector procurement
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Iâm not generally a fan, because it would still be full of incompetent cunts, but at least the backbenchers might hae had a say and it really couldnât have been worse than this.
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To paraphrase Steelers Wheel, cunts to the left of us and cunts to the right here we are stuck in the middle with no clueâŠ
Only this is much more corrupt and holding the public in contempt than most
If I wanted any dosh from HMG I had to provide 3 years of tax details to get a max of ÂŁ2.5k per month.
Did companies receiving contracts of over ÂŁ100m have to do the same?
Will they have to pay it back if they fail to deliver?
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Gone are the days when a government felt any social responsibility.
An 80 seat majority just about creates absolute power, and the current bunch in power have absolutely no qualms over using absolute power to line their, and their friendsâ pockets, ignore all opposition and international law and demonstrate absolute corruption.
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Social gatherings greater than 6 just been nixed
BBC News - Coronavirus: Social gatherings above six banned in England from 14 September
Surely that means pubs will shut again? Canât see them staying open for 6 people. ÂŁ500m spent on getting people to eat out again would now seem to be a complete waste of money. I thought the plan was to localise lockdowns to where the virus showed signs of breaking out again. The omnishambles of a clusterfuck continues apace.
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I donât think it means that, though I canât work it out with any certainty. Iâm guessing it means if thereâs a group of you in the pub, that group can only be up to 6 people. That doesnât mean yours has to be the only group in the pub.
I think. 
Government spokesmen have been asked whether companies awarded contracts but failing to deliver will be required to pay the money back,(in some cases millions). âWe cannot divulge this informationâ. So thatâs a no then. This is fraud and corruption on a grand scale, 100s of millions of public funds sloshing about, much of it ending up in tax haven accounts in places like the Caymans. Examples like one of the lucky recipients, a âpest controlâ outfit with registered assets of 18,000, company had been dormant since 2017, no employees, being handed 108 million. Plenty more in the same vein.Trying to justify this as âinevitably some will fall through the cracksâ is laughable.
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Aah, I remember the days when a VAT increase on Cornish pasties was an omnishambles and a clusterfuck.
Good times!
Every day brings another announcement more ridiculous than the last. If your scenario is correct, and it wouldnât surprise me at all if it was, presumably if thirty lads want to go on the piss together all they have to do is go into the pub in groups of six. This really hasnât been thought through has it?
But they would have to sit at 5 tables. A lot of pubs down here donât have any standing at the bar and in the case of the smaller ones, it pays to book the table in advance.
They wonât be affected by this announcement
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So, for me itâs been a bit different.
I took a new role in in July with a high-end sustainable startup.
We have a small office in Soho Works, which I go into once a week at the moment. I may up that to two days but unlikely.
As a long term plan we are all planning on moving to the country to open a glamping site - itâs an idea we had pre-Covid but has now been accelerated. I had wanted to emigrate to Canada, frankly I donât feel I have much in common with a lot of the country, and want out, but the wife put a kibosh on that plan. So the next best thing is to move to the middle of nowhere and live a simpler life.
Until weâre up and running however, I will continue travelling in. The company I work for donât have enough office space for everyone to be in every day, and I doubt they ever will, so I donât think my job will be changing in regards to being in the office.
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So does that mean no more than 6 to a dinghy or a small boat to get here just asking
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I like your phrase about feeling you donât have much in common with a lot of the Country. I feel the same, but iâm not sure if it is just me being a grumpy old bastard approaching latter middle age or not. However, i think the Country is being pulled apart by an increasing number of batshit mentalists on both the left and right.
Good luck with the glamping business - a brave move and better than sticking to to hamster wheel.
Last week we took the lad back to Manchester Uni and we spent a few days in the Peak District afterwards. I had a very happy afternoon in a local pub scribbling down figures trying to work out when i can retire and move to either Norfolk, Shropshire or Herefordshire. Looks like at least another 10 years on the wheel for me. 
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