**** Hell!

[AtomKraft]

I shall point this out again, as an unemployed pilot, with many old retired chums.

There is a BIG division here.

State workers cruise on, private sector workers getting humped.

I see sticky times ahead...

[prospector]

Our Prime Minister, Jacinda Aderne, said she would take a pay cut of I think 20%, that was in Mar/Apr. However, it is now published that the public service cannot organise such a thing to happen before September, they did not state which year so presumably this one 2020.

[AtomKraft]

Prospector.
What a surprise.
My employer had no difficulty at all in arranging my, and my 135 colleagues, 100% pay cut, with immediate effect.
I guess things are more difficult for employees of the State?

[prospector]

And just to show the difference between Public and Private, The Victorian State in Australia, after a massive stuff up by public employees managing quarantined Covid 19 suspects, has been granted a 2% pay rise whilst many private employees have not got a job of any sort.

[AtomKraft]

My young daughter is looking for her first flat- she's 26.

I advised her to bide her time, as the Covid crisis might produce a few opportunities.

But she tells me, the English property market is red hot, and prices are going up, not down.

So who are these new buyers?

Private sector folk, using their Furlough money?
Or unaffected- apart from more overtime- public sector workers?

Genuinely, I'm not sure.

[Woody]

AK very few properties available, so lots of people chasing each one!

[llondel]

Foreign investors taking advantage of the exchange rate?