Furlough should be scrapped immediately

Why are they being sacked instead of their jobs being put on hold? Don't we have a benefits system?

Furlough is essentially Welfare Version 2 and should be scrapped immediately. Rather than paying people to sit at home which they dont do anyways why not get the same people to pick fruit or clean hotel rooms rather than importing millions of foreigners to do this work?

The furlough junkies love it they go to the beach and pub everyday with their welfare gang members and its in their interest not to social distance not to wear a mask etc so they can get Sunak to give them even more furlough money for doing f all in their daily lives.

No other western country has gone down the furlough route, rather than breeding a new generation of shysters with it get them take another job that is available rather than giving them money to sit on a beach all day or when they are bored going to a pub instead.

Get a grip knucklehead why do we have 3 million eastern europeans doing jobs lazy shyster Brits wont do? Why are we still importing labour from Europe while at the same time putting shyster Brits onto furlough to join their welfare gang members at the beach doing f all the day apart from spreading you know what.

Any wonder cases on rise again? Paying people to do f all is always a bad idea as all they do is cause trouble or smoke/drink and binge watch netflix all day. Furlough should be scrapped force these shysters to clean hotel rooms and pick fruit rather than giving them taxpayers cash to sit on a beach all day. Same goes for the welfare gang also.

A few reasons I guess...
1) If you have a contract with an employer for say £50k a year for 40hrs a week the employer can't rip up a contract without the employee agreeing. They'd have to make them redundant unless the employee agreed that leave of absence.
2) The benefit system wouldn't be able to cope with 5m+ applicants in a fortnight.
3) Benefit entitlemate is pretty crummy for people who agree a period of leave with their employer.
4) As a result of the above two things different more complex emergency legislation and implementation would have been needed to smooth the process. Which would have taken time.
5) The government didn't wish to lose the votes of millions of people who would get impovrised.

This person clearly can’t see the amount of defaults on debts and mortgages that would happen which would then cause a financial crash on top of harming a recovery by a consumer economy having consumers with no money.

Yea we have 3 million Europeans here because of free movement not because we have purposefully imported them to do our jobs. You’re a bit of a clown really aren’t you?

You're the clown numpty brain why have we imported 3 million from Europe to do work lazy shyster Brits on welfare can easily do? Even now furlough is creating a second tier of lazy shysterness so get these lazy sods picking fruit and cleaning hotel rooms rather than CONTinuing to import labour from overseas.

Estimate says that well over half the UK population are dependent on welfare that is shocking. No wonder the Sky CEO said the welfare gang make up for a large proportion of their income. Look at the amount of satellite dishes on council estates its like a default fitting! Sure netflix feels the same if they did an analysis.

Scrap furlough gets the lazy millions back to work rather than crowding beaches and pubs up and down the country spreading the virus.

A mixture of borrowing and printing if memory serves.

Printing money usually means a devalued currency and borrowing has to be paid back.

A few reasons I guess...
1) If you have a contract with an employer for say £50k a year for 40hrs a week the employer can't rip up a contract without the employee agreeing. They'd have to make them redundant unless the employee agreed that leave of absence.
2) The benefit system wouldn't be able to cope with 5m+ applicants in a fortnight.
3) Benefit entitlemate is pretty crummy for people who agree a period of leave with their employer.
4) As a result of the above two things different more complex emergency legislation and implementation would have been needed to smooth the process. Which would have taken time.
5) The government didn't wish to lose the votes of millions of people who would get impovrised.

Printing money usually means a devalued currency and borrowing has to be paid back.

I believe we should have gone down the route of:
- Capital Gains Tax cut.
- Corporation tax break for 6 months.
- Income tax cut.
- Quantitative easing

Problem is the welfare gang think money grows on trees as they have never earned a penny in their life so its about time they were reminded to earn their keep for once and are reminded the tax payer funds their alcohol, sky and netflix. Following that the rug should be pulled out from under them stat

1. no work then no pay
2. then how did we manage the free money furlough
3. same for everyone
4. thats what the civil service is for.
5. we're stuck with them for another 5 years

If people can't work then rentseekers can't collect.

The government have rolled out tax breaks to companies across the board, they don't have to pay various taxes for a long period to come, although admittedly they will still owe them.

QE is back on the agenda as well, it is apparently being actively discussed as an urgent option in the Treasury. The main effect of QE after the financial crash of 2008 was to boost equities and house prices and enrich the already rich at the expense of younger people, renters and people without pensions and money market funds. The banks basically lent the money to rich people playing the markets.

Did you miss the £300bn QE announced this year?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15198789

Ah yes, we're on the verge of an unprecedented homelessness crisis and mass unemployment when the furlough scheme ends, obviously the solution was just to do all that months earlier...

You want an actual solution? It's a living wage with a jobs guarantee/UBI for those who can't work, and strict rent controls to avoid leeches bleeding the money away from people, plus very high wealth taxes on the ultra rich. You want to save the economy? Tackle those who are a net drain on it by their hoarding (the billionaires) and give more money to the poor, who can't hoard and have to spend but need the security to spend on anything other than essentials.