Was it a satisfactory answer to your question?

Joke isn’t it lol

This is quite the hot take; RL fails to develop outside the heartlands, because socialism.

That will take some beating.

Probably not, to be fair.

It is both more interesting and more difficult to discuss stuff with people you disagree with than those with whom you agree.

How long do you think it is going to take to wash out the impact of some guy in China who liked eating bats? If we are still not feeling the impact of this in 10 years I will be very surprised.

It was not a criticism of Labour - I know you lefties are very sensitive to any poke in the ribs

Global issues like this takes years to overcome.

Thank God they have all that PPE you bought them - they need something to pin it to

Told you what I would have done - isolate the vulnerable continue as normal - don't wreck the economy for what wouldn't have been a lot different to a normal year of flu deaths. Harsh yes but if you had ever run a business you would know you have to make decisions that protect the majority.

Sat in your lofty seat I would have thought that was bloody obvious - especially to an intellectual colossus like you (sic) very easy to stand outside the fire

We are still feeling the impact of the banking crisis - your kids tried to get a mortgage recently!! That 12 years ago and we are still feeling that impact - this wont be as long but it will change things fundamentally - my view is a complete reset of the economy by 20% and off we go from a new lower bar.

My understanding is bats and the likes are considered delicacies by the better off Chinese?

Just think how much money we have raised to give people clean water and still they don't have any!!

Come on you can do better than this - being the intellectual super human you think you are

I suppose it depends which section of society you found yourself in. There'd never been so much money sloshing around in some quarters only a couple of years later. The rest of us had to 'tighten our belts' for a decade.

Because investment returns are so low - investors are looking to find places to maximise returns - I doubt very much the monies extended to PE firms in the past will be available in the future - given that virtually every investment they have will be in special measures right now.

Salaries in the private sector have seen very slow growth despite what all the lefties on here will say - there may be big money in the city and MD of listed companies making huge salaries - these are the exception and their life span in the top job is often short.

I know, I didn't get one for 5 years, so I left the company. The people still working there are on the same wages they were on in 2008.

I agree this was changing in the last couple of years as the natural supply/demand proposition started to kick in and wages were rising - it hasn't been easy.