Government help for business. How are we doing?

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Could the government do any more for the economy than they are doing at the moment?

Business grants
Interest free business loans
Self employed income support scheme
Business rates relief
Furlough scheme
Stamp duty holiday
Reduction in vat for some things
Furloughed employee retention bonus
Meal out discounts for August
Arts support package
A relaxation of many rules and regulations
Plus quite a few more that I’ve missed.

I particularly like the ease and speed that they have made it for businesses and the self employed to access financial help. I might even be tempted to take on a fully funded trainee for at least 6 months. Even if it doesn’t work out long term, it’ll give them some experience and something for their CV.

I know that even with all these measures, many businesses, employees and self employed will hit on hard times and/or lose jobs and there will inevitably be a price to pay in the future but I think they are doing as much as they can to help as many people and businesses as they can.

We simply can’t stay furloughed or in lockdown for ever and they have to draw a line somewhere but is there any more they could do?

How is the U.K. government help shaping up compared to government help for businesses and employees in other countries around the world?

Let’s keep this a Brexit free thread please. :rolleyes:
 
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they have to draw a line somewhere but is there any more they could do?
Not a political point but I do think NHS workers should keep free parking.

on the other things -yes the government have done well only time will tell if it saves or delays
 
Not a political point but I do think NHS workers should keep free parking.
Yes, they are getting free parking the moment but I think that’s because the car parks are relatively empty. My wife works for the NHS and she currently gets free parking at work which is normally subsidised and the cost varies as it depends on how far you have to travel to work - the nearer you live to the hospital, the more you pay. I think they try to dissuade employees coming by car and to use public transport simply because of the physical lack of parking spaces though. She normally pays £10 per month for car parking which isn’t too terrible. When she was based at Basildon, some staff that started after 8.00 can spend 30 minutes driving round looking for a space and some have literally had to phone in from the car park, saying that they cannot park and were having to go home. That may just be my wife’s health authority though - a friend of hers who is in a different health authority gets no concessions and another friends daughter who is a junior doctor in a central London hospital has been on the waiting list for a parking place for nearly a year now.
 
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Could the government do any more for the economy than they are doing at the moment?

Business grants
Interest free business loans
Self employed income support scheme
Business rates relief
Furlough scheme
Stamp duty holiday
Reduction in vat for some things
Furloughed employee retention bonus
Meal out discounts for August
Arts support package
A relaxation of many rules and regulations
Plus quite a few more that I’ve missed.

I particularly like the ease and speed that they have made it for businesses and the self employed to access financial help. I might even be tempted to take on a fully funded trainee for at least 6 months. Even if it doesn’t work out long term, it’ll give them some experience and something for their CV.

I know that even with all these measures, many businesses, employees and self employed will hit on hard times and/or lose jobs and there will inevitably be a price to pay in the future but I think they are doing as much as they can to help as many people and businesses as they can.

We simply can’t stay furloughed or in lockdown for ever and they have to draw a line somewhere but is there any more they could do?

How is the U.K. government help shaping up compared to government help for businesses and employees in other countries around the world?

Let’s keep this a Brexit free thread please. :rolleyes:

Who is going to pay for it.

Suprising how you have accepted £350bn in extra spending.

So spending is only good during a pandemic - you dirty socialist keynesians. :mrgreen:

How you doing anyway?
 
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How is the U.K. government help shaping up compared to government help for businesses and employees in other countries around the world?
Better than most in the short term...

However in the long term worse than most.

I’m doing fine, thanks to many of those measures.
After admitting that you don't actually need the financial help...

And that is the problem - the printed money is mainly aimed at the wrong people and is effectively on the whole 'corporate welfare'!
 
After admitting that you don't actually need the financial help...
Of course I don’t but I’ll take it all the same - I'm entitled aren’t I? Anyway, someone’s gotta pay for my champagne lifestyle so it might as well be you. Cheers.

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And that is the problem - the printed money is mainly aimed at the wrong people
Oh dear, sounds like somebody missed out when the money tree was shaken. :rolleyes:
 
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We all are I would imagine. I’m doing fine, thanks to many of those measures. How are you doing?

I am actually more relaxed - busy but less stressed. It's been a good time for Remainers to reflect... :mrgreen:

My hopes that the current Government could use this opportunity to reshape the economy are fading - they are too ideologically driven- I grew up in the days of Thatcher - sure there were controversies like the Westland fiasco but perhaps I am looking back with nostalgia but I suspect we had a better class of politician then - certainly they lied alot less.
 
Oh dear, sounds like somebody missed out when the money tree was shaken.
Assumption is the mother of all f uckups, as you seem so willing to repeatedly prove is true...

I happen to pay more tax than the majority of people earn in the UK...

Of course I don’t but I’ll take it all the same - I'm entitled aren’t I? Anyway, someone’s gotta pay for my champagne lifestyle so it might as well be you. Cheers.
Yep, I have to admit it grates a tad having to help fund an ignorant old benefit scrounger like yourself (n)
 
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