Well, I hope It Was Worth It

The economy is trashed.

Rishi Sunak delivered a terrifying picture of the devastation caused to the economy by coronavirus today as he splashed the cash one last time to shore up jobs and businesses before vaccines finally end the crisis.

Unveiling his crucial Spending Review, the Chancellor declared that billions of pounds will be pumped into getting the unemployed back to work, as well as boosting infrastructure, the NHS and defence, in a bid to create a platform for recovery.

Mr Sunak told the Commons his main priority is to ‘protect people’s lives and livelihoods’, declaring that the government’s response to coronavirus was now set to cost a total of £280billion.

So, livelihoods destroyed, small businesses and with them the jobs they bring, gone to  the wall. This is quite apart from people who have missed out on essential healthcare dues to this scaremongering.

And for those people who seem to think that the economy is all about money, how do we keep roofs over our heads, food on the table, education, healthcare and so on?

None of this was justified. None of it.

Last December, people thought they were voting for a Conservative government. In any other field we could report them to trading standards for misrepresentation.

What we have is a government high as a kite on rampant authoritarianism, with a health secretary thinking that it is in his remit to allow us to have Christmas. It is not theirs to give. The hubris is now planet-sized.

What is worrying is the supine nature of the populace that accepts this and repeats the propaganda without once engaging in critical thinking, without once stopping to consider that there is a significant body of scientific opinion that disagrees with the government and SAGE. The blind willingness to give up liberty for perceived safety is tragic, frankly.

 

7 Comments

  1. Meanwhile Doris is still hiding in the fridge. I’m getting very angry now, every time I hear the word ‘allowed’.

  2. The big lie that is never challenged is: the devastation caused to the economy by coronavirus.

    The devastation has been caused by governments not the virus. They did not have to respond in the way they have, they chose to respond in that way.

  3. There is a way out; make the lockdowns voluntary for all but health and care home workers. Open up everything else. Let those who want to hide, do so. At which point we will find how useless they are to the economy in general.

    • Oh we’ve been finding out who’s superfluous alright, pen pushers general admin and various managers.
      Whilst they have been hiding, my work hasn’t stopped once nor tailed off because the company i work for are genuinely essential, and what difference i hear you ask has there been without umpteen suits…er none.
      The job has run if anything better because whilst they were out of the way they weren’t implementing more pointless bollocks in order to justify their jobs.

  4. These plans for economic recovery seem to be an awful lot like previous lefty responses to economic woes. The ones that never work and end up making a bad situation worse.

    • Quite so. It’s as though we were stepping back into the 1970s. Where is a Thatcher when you need one? Doris certainly ain’t one.

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