So Bozo and Co are going to abolish all restrictions with basically 2 themes. One ‘we have to learn to. live Covid’: and Two ‘the government is absolving itself of all responsibility by placing the emphasis on the individual to act responsibly’. Despitethe Johnson variant being rampant!
IDEOLOGY RULES!
Sajid Javid says we have got to find ways to cope with Covid. I agree! What he did not do was spell out what these ways will be? Jenprick seems to think we can rely on common sense when the cabinet members themselves show no restraint. All this in a week where the retail sector has reported over 100.000 assets on staff members during the last year – are the common sense of the great British public! Hospital and medical staff are assaulted on a daily basis.
FINALLY
At last we have a policy from Labour. And a very sensible one too. “Make, sell and buy more from Britain”. makes total sense. Economically we need to reduce the debt and increasing manufacturing, especially in high tech and environmental areas would also create skilled, well paid jobs. Educationally we need to shift away from University for the sake of it to more engineering and vocational courses. That is without cutting support for the arts and media where we are already world leaders. Like. it or not, and I do not, Brexit is here – so we need to make the best of it. It is creating problems that will need ingenuity to overcome – a favourite quote of mine is from Boserup “necessity is the mother of invention”.
SHOCK – LABOUR HOLD BATLEY
COVID
Data driven or having’ a laugh. The data is concerning. The plight of those unable to open businesses is concerning. The balance between the two is difficult.
How many people are clamouring to get back to low paid exploitative jobs? How many business people are complaining about their inability to make profits. And there is a shortage of staff? I do not understand this last bit. I know that the Brexit Fiasco has resulted in many Europeans going home, and The Home Office is toxic to immigrants – well done Patel. But I suspect that (That phrase basically means I have not got a clue – before you point it out). That means higher wages, and companies would say higher profits and prices. It does not have to be like that. Higher wages for the workers, and lower profits (but still profits). Remember that pension funds are the main investors and gainers from increased profits. Time of the general public to think about economics.
I know this is mega oversimplified, but interviews of pub landlords and restaurant owners are common, waiting staff and go for’s seemingly absent! It is up to the government to ensure that safety is paramount for staff (although I believe they are all now called colleagues!) and customers.
BOZO OF THE WEEK
It would seem that Williamson did not realise that this weeks game was a binary contest between Hancock and Johnson – it went to extra time before Hancock gave up, but then Johnson went for this weeks prize by claiming that he had sacked Hancock, before facilitating on whether he had or not – seems he cannot remember! So ever ready, zip open Johnson has this weeks prize of a chocolate teapot.
COVID
Can we have a clear explanation of the present situation. Cases are high in many areas, including here, Bristol and Cornwall. But deaths and hospitalisations are ???? obviously lowered, but low enough? I want a statement that says “Whilst Covid is not defeated we are in a situation to manage it it. Those over 60 and those with other conditions should continue to exercise maximum care. The vaccine is not a total shield against the virus or more importantly the variants. Therefore mask wearing and social distancing should be maintained in confined areas like shops. People, especially the young should be aware of the risks of close encounters with others in places like night clubs, and the risk of passing it on to vulnerable people. But the virus has not disappeared, and we all need to accept its existence in our day to day lives”.
SINISTER
Oliver Dowden – Minister for Culture or the soon to be created Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda – has decreed that all publicly funded bodies should adhere to its rules and regulations regarding the artefacts looted during Britains Colonial Past. Dowden (aka Goebbels) seems to want to glorify former slave owners like Hans Sloane. He has also failed to provide access to the EU for musicians and artists. Is he going for the prize of muppet of the week?
CRISIS
By any normal and moral standards this should be a government in crisis. And in reply to comments that no one cares about sleaze and corruption in government, well numbskulls, huge numbers of people are not selfish or stupid. There are many questions to be answered about the handling of the pandemic from Day One. But the government will not form an enquiry into it.
BREXIT
So the best thing that has happened to this country for years is a comment I have heard.
firstly lets note that the views of the 48%+ who voted against have ee totally ignored, without counting those who did not vote. So the minority are steamrolling changes through with no discussion, just political malice. So far we have a serious shortage of HGV drivers, a shortage of NHS staff, a shortage of hospitality industry staff, rising prices in the shops, an entertainment industry (worth £111 billion) that is getting little support, mobile phone roaming charges abroad, a disastrous fishing policy, lighting the flames of discontent in Northern Ireland . Economically and socially a disaster. Morally we have seen an increase in discrimination by the thicko’s. A trade policy with countries as far away as possible is being touted as the best thing since sliced bread (and look how that turned out!). Taking back control has transmogrified into giving complete control over everything to Westminster, and sod everyone else, especially the Scots and Welsh.