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  1. 2 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

    I don’t intend to prolong this, but may I suggest you at least check your spelling and punctuation before calling somebody a ‘thicko’.

    For goodness sake, your post was only 8 words, only marginally more than the grammatical mistakes therein.
     

     

    Educated friends ???

  2. 11 minutes ago, freezer said:

    After the address to the nation by Boris last night, I made a decision to cancel the work I had booked in for today and for the foreseeable future. Being a self-employed sole trader that obviously has massive financial implications that I was willing to accept.

    I also felt though that the decision would help protect myself and others. Into the small hours and after many conversations with mates in the same situation there were two schools of thought. The message from the government was rather ambiguous, so some were going to carry on as normal, some weren't. All were confused as to what financial support, if any, would be forthcoming in the near future.

    I can't work from home, I have to travel to customers premises to fix problems. Some aspects of my job are essential for their wellbeing.

    During the night I received a text from a customer who had a desperate emergency. I attended this morning to rectify. I considered it an essential repair. They certainly did and we're most grateful. Whilst on that job I received a similar call, attended and rectified again. It was now the afternoon and I was in my working stride. Again the phone rang, another essential job, which i attended and fortunately rectified again. I called one of the customers that I cancelled to see if she wanted me to attend to her non essential job, she was very happy for me to visit, so I did. To me she was non essential, to her it was very much required due to her mobility issues.

    So, I am now back working as normally as possible, whilst being very aware of mine and others wellbeing. I fully understand if I'm not needed or welcome at this present time, both my customers and I call it how we see it.

    Unless the government can support tradesmen adequately, I and many others will continue to trade.

    If forced to stop working I shall. However, it will be extremely hard for me to leave people in a desperate state and open to being ripped off by lesser operators than myself.

    The lack of clarity was un real. 

    After re playing the speach several times I came to the conclusion that they left the door open for trades to go to work if they cannot afford not to. Untill they sort out the support stuff. 

    Sounds like you may be a key worker on a lock down (or atleast part of your business).  what sort of thing do you do?

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  3. 6 minutes ago, reddoc said:

    Ok, I'll be fair, thanks for replying, I don't think you're the bad guy here, fully understand your dilemma, I've got friends/relatives in similar situations , jobs/business going under , it's a complete nightmare. I don't have an answer , the government are nowhere near having an answer and fair enough I've targeted you to make a point. I'd prefer to have a go at the weekends daytrippers but they're not posting on here.

    Just begging people to listen to the advice (albeit ambiguous) we're being given, and if not just look at Italy/Spain/France to see what's coming . It's about to become very bad

    Yeah very much support you sentiment. And your message is 100% correct. Stay at home. 

    I was expecting empty roads and ghost towns today. Shockingly it was as if nothing has happened. Old lady walking to the shop (at least 80)

    Kids playing in the street. 

    Endless runners and cyclists. 

    I get we need to get me home. But these are easier fixes. Because your right, This is going south. 

    Stay safe fella

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  4. 2 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said:

    Self employed tax returns only show half of their income though ?

    That's very assumptive. In fact any self employed subcontractors pay there tax in advance and its paid by the person that pays them. It isn't like it used to be. Everyone pays by bank transfer. I would say anyone with a turn over of £35k plus simply cannot avoid paying the correct amount of tax. Only the small 'cash in hand' workers have the opportunity to avoid tax. And this will (or should) bite them on the arse now. 

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  5. 4 minutes ago, JamesBCFC said:

    More likely that you got abuse down to the fact you said you hoped someone sneezed in another person's food, because they dared to challenge you.

    Rather than some agenda against the self employed.

     

    Just a guess though.

    To be fair, I'm probably not innocent in all that, but it was always as a reaction to instant abuse of some form. 

    I think we made up in the end tho

    4 minutes ago, frenchred said:

    I'm employed by a very large company so no impact to me working from home on full pay. I think self employed should have benefits open to them in line with the tax they have declared over the last few years. Gig to be fair surely?

    Yep I'd take that

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