Wattie
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The problem with politicians is they all come from clueless privilidged backgrounds.Regardless of whether they are smart enough to have a masterplan in play - which I'm not sure they are, Rees-Mogg, Gove and Cummings aside, I still can't see what advantage there is in accelerating the numbers who will require to lean on the welfare system for unemployment benefit, housing etc etc. Surely it costs less to better support their employers to keep them in a wage, especially given the fact that international travel restrictions are ensuring that the majority of that income just gets re-spent into UK PLC.
As Wattie says, extend and pretend. More lending from the central bank, the retail banks and the government, all entrapping the ordinary person. It will just mean more defaults as you can't get blood from a stone.
So you're left with massive unemployment, massive increases in empty commercial premises, defaults across every sector of lending. Not exactly a stellar reelection policy.
If I was Keir Starmer, i'm be grinning ear to ear. He may have facilitated marxism and antisemitism and taken the knee very naively but he's the acceptable face of it to many.
The trouble with politicians is that they don't ever have a reason to think beyond their term and they are almost entirely unaccountable for their actions. That's a broken system if ever there was one.
I feel for @spkennyuk and others who work in super exposed sectors however I also don't clearly see why the focus has been on hospitality within the press. There has been the eat out help out vouchers and the VAT reduction to 5%, but no help whatsoever for other sectors which add far more, per capita, to the economy. Doesn't make sense to me.
It’s like F1, the bought rise to the top.
None of the current MP crop have “nous”, no streetwise knowledge, no idea of what the population endure.
Removed from reality, just words.
Bit like Bankers. How many got arrested this week for ML shenanigans?
Zero.
Zero clue politicians in bed with their zero clue bankers and advisors
and now I think people are beginning to see this.
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