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Some good innovations from smaller local businesses eg moving from B2B to ecommerce B2C, delivery services, product line changes etc. Ocado's IT didnt scale well with them having to close down their mobile app earlier on (I think they are multicloud BTW) but if you want to see their robots they are up on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdzwUB5gCUw

The Cummins Debacle is all too familiar for neuveau Tories. Their ability to not think beyond the end of their nose is spectacular (remember Fox and his buddy while minister of defence?). While Cummins could possiblyhave justified going for a family lockdown (debatable - as his wife DID have Covid - but then plenty of other people chose their lockdown location), going for a drive while in lockdown is just poor judgement. You don't want poor judges advising the PM. But then the government response to the entire Covid plague seems to have been in poor judgement so we shouldnt be surprised.

That's the way I see the outcome of this situation unfolding hitting the needy in a big way.
I would love to be proved wrong.

Pardon my ignorance (mainly because I am ignorant and haven't got a clue about the Italian language) does that mean Italy have increased their equivalent of VAT or there is a supplementary tax as well as their VAT or is this just something put on to help an individual establishment?

I didn't know this, I always use the main browser application. The worst I ever had was a queue. I think they gave different groups different levels of access. People classed as vulnerable or the elderly got priority, then existing customers who had been with them a while, then newbies - and I had an email from them saying they wouldn't be taking on anyone further for a while.

They would release delivery slots each day and so occasionally we had to try 2 or 3 days to get a slot but the time from order to delivery was always 48 hours or so. We only have one delivery a month so no issue for us. Some stuff is still in short supply because of people changing their buying patterns but nothing problematic.

Fresh fruit, veg, dairy etc all comes from local businesses, as you say many of them have changed their commerce models very quickly, there seem to be plenty of billing platforms available that integrate nicely with smaller web platforms.

Just a bit of a rant really... sigh.

As I have stated, I am not a supporter of any one political party, and up until retirement paid little interest in Politics, being too busy building a life, and was able to make adjustments for whichever political party was in power, and that reasonable adjustments could be made, equated to politics having no great effect on my day to day living, I guess I kinda looked at politics a bit like a pendulum that as long as it swing left to right on a semi regular basis, it spent more time near the centre of it`s swing, things seemed to get sticky if it went too far left or right.... ?

Having one very sharp minded friend who worked in industry prior to joining the civil service and prior to retirement was at a level where he was in direct contact with govt ministers, provided me with a degree of confidence that regardless of the personalities that the public choose to vote for, there was at least some sort of solid structure, perhaps like a pyramid with the PM at the top, the party in power obviously shaping the direction of travel relative to their political priorities as contained in their manifesto... Simples..?

Therefore governance would ideally be operating overall for the common good, all be it that some will ever be movers and shakers with their own priorities beating a path in business while others will be couch potatoes, thus there will never ever be equality which matters not a jot as that seems to be some happily ever after dream...? However there seems to be a considerable measure of imbalance that has perpetuated for quite some time for us to have a societal structure where it seems possible that 1% of the population appear to have accrued an excessive amount of wealth...?

Being a simple thinker, it seems that I like nature think things work well if there is a degree of balance, be that in modifying Morgans or much else...(-: My thinking on balance and the pendulum spending more time in the centre of it`s arc, kinda works for me, with a degree of confidence that no matter who is at the top, there is a whole pyramid of technical and intellectual support providing the best possible information to provide outcomes that are aimed at providing outcomes that will hopefully be for the common good of UK PLC...?

But then, when I look back at the banking crisis, I begin to think, am I simple or what..? Gordon Brown at the Lord Mayors Banquet, congratulating bankers and requesting that they keep on doing what they are doing, bugged me considerably, given I never got into the mindset of thinking I deserve more than my earnings or skill-set could provide... So much for his Presbyterian sense of value then.. No correction on Thatchers de-regulation free for all that really seemed to be the beginning of the colossal debt mountain we in the UK and the US are seemingly currently sitting upon... ?

Was I wrong in my rough guide to politics...?

Enter the disruptors..... Grievance consumed voters, voting to destroy the system that brought about the banking crisis, off-shoring of their jobs in order that the 1% and their political allies could ultimately accumulate even more wealth.... and we wonder why anyone with half a brain would vote for a news paper buffoon who wrote in the Clarkson style of little Englander thinking... women looking like pillar boxes... Yeah just the thinking any politician should promote...! Corbyn.. well if we accept that the voters are voting for personalities... he seems to have been a looser from the outset ..?

But then when we vote, are we really selecting those who are the ultimate decision makers.... I have my doubts, which it seems may or may not pay dividends for as has been so openly displayed the country may be actually run by others pulling the strings who may have their own set of priorities, after all is it not a fact that human nature determines personal self preservation is THE primary instinct for the majority...? If so than it may well be that such has been the evolution of the civil service mandarins to sit on top of as large a pyramid as possible, the bigger the pyramid the more important the mandarin..? Should that be the case then perhaps all departments may indeed be over stocked and very expensive..? One has only to think of all those guaranteed pensions quietly accruing

It seems if you wanted Boris you may have voted for a puppet worked by someone you did not actually vote for, whether you think that is beneficial or otherwise...? It seems we got Cummings, who may be supremely arrogant, and has HIS plan for re-shaping UK PLC, and as for what YOU think, he seemingly cares not a jot.. some might think his dictatorial thinking is precisely that which is required, though one thing is for sure he seems to be a disruptor like no other we have seen, unless you care to look across the pond..?

Should you have managed to read this far, and may have a degree of curiosity relative to my simplistic line of thought.... You might like to beam up this link amongst a group of folk who are considered as intellectuals and one amongst them is a fellow Scot from these parts and seemingly highly regarded as a historian, not to be confused with the English medic who set out to break the rules for a bit of hanky panky, this Fergusson seems a tad smarter than that...

The vid was created prior to the recent Cummings debacle, and if you cut out the start of the discussion and cut in about 11:57 you might find a degree of interest in his thinking relative to the prevailing political system starting with the US but not at too much length before mentioning the structure in the UK

11:57 in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZNXMi91cz8

And another kick in the nuts for BJ
Scotland do track and trace first

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52808586

I’m not a fan of Nicola Sturgeon and think the U.K. is better united but she s playing a blinder through this saga and the Welsh First Minister doing pretty well too

Abso-bloomin'-lutely. I cannot understand how political dogmas runs so deep and inflexibly that the political right wing cannot see the value of these strategies for stimulating the economy.

You are right. But it it damn well should be.

EVERYONE should be paid sufficiently well to live a modest but dignified life, without needing Social/Tax/Food subsidies. Otherwise all you are doing is subsidising low wage industry. And subsidies are not a Conservative thing to do.

Taken from Donald Tusks Twitter

Donald Tusk✔@donaldtusk
This is apparently Cummings and his Brexit friends’ rule: that they leave when they should stay.

4,682 14:00 - 26 May 2020

Even Donald Tusk is extracting the urine now

Agreed.

And yes, subsidies are definitely not the Conservative thing. They prefer to force people to rely on charity and goodwill from others, such as Foodbank, Shelter, Help the Aged, Crisis etc etc