I can’t help but think that the governments big u-turn from originally saying only those with ‘essential jobs’ should be working, to now saying ‘where it’s not possible to work from home’ is just a massive caveat. They’ll use this further down the line to not pay out the 80% to the self employed that they think should now be out earning.
It’s just so un-Tory like to pay out and effectively be giving people a pay rise that are working through it.
I think there’s going to be a lot of disappointed people come June/July.
How will they know that we're not out earning?
I don’t think they’ll care tbh. I don’t just mean the ones are at home won’t get paid, I mean the ones who are working also. Basically everyone they think could be working.
They’ve also left themselves wiggle room by saying there’s 5% that won’t get taken care of.
I’m not anti Tory btw, I voted for them the last 3 elections, I’m just being realistic.
Giving people 80% of their averages profit, aswell as allowing them to carry on earning thus actually making more money from the pandemic than they would normally just seems incredibly generous to me.
(Unless of course, they planned this all along to enable a mega strict lock down that bans all but essential work)