No amount of good news on the Covid front will persuade the Government to speed up the exit from lockdown. We are “very close now to really turning the corner” in our efforts against Covid, but not close enough that our unlock can be brought forward, according to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab. What’s more, he said that rules on mask-wearing and social distancing could continue beyond June 21st. MailOnline has the story.
The Foreign Secretary warned “there will still need to be some safeguards in place” after [June 21st] in comments likely to anger Tory MPs who want all coronavirus rules to be lifted.
[Talking to Sophy Ridge on Sky News,] Mr Raab rejected calls to speed up the roadmap as he insisted “we are very close now to really turning the corner” in the battle against the disease.The success of the U.K.’s vaccination programme and falling infection numbers have prompted demands for the Government to bring forward its reopening dates.
But the Foreign Secretary this morning urged people to be patient as he insisted June 21st is not far away and “we are nearly there’”.
He argued that “taking steady steps out of the lockdown is the smart way to go” to avoid undoing the progress made during the national shutdown.
He also… promised that on June 21st “almost all social restrictions will be lifted”.
To justify the “roadmap” continuing at its current slow pace, Raab said: “[The] fourth step out of lockdown is not far away now so I think [we should] just hang on.” But for the sake of the hospitality venues that have yet to reopen (and even those that have reopened outdoors), and for the sake of the nation’s mental and physical health, any amount of time still spent in lockdown is too long.
MailOnline‘s report is worth reading in full.
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Redefining the meaning of terms is all the rage these days. Haven’t you noticed? Rebate, bonus, non-taxable income – whatever it’s called, spend it while you can before it’s market value collapses.
Just to remind everyone that “vaccine” was redefined recently too.
And “pandemic”.
Having got into this entirely predictable mess with energy, I’m afraid I dont see any other good solutions that try to mitigate its worst effects as best you can on one side, and try to secure new supplies and lower costs on the other. Its the classic ‘Buggers Muddle’. I’m encouraged by the green light of fracking, and the Chancellors statement this morning. I hope we will see the repeal of Green Taxes and subsidies, and of the manipulations of electricty prices in the coming days and weeks.
She’s buying the win of the next GE.
Simple.
With our own money.
Of course, as always.
And the Covid and Ukraine related squandering of hundreds of billions was just the dry run for this and more climate change related squandering.
The resulting debt explosion and inflation will devalue that debt, but also eventually make it unserviceable, leading to hyperinflation, the collapse of the currency and ultimately the institution of a new one.
Then, we can restart.
Off a much poorer base, of course.
The bright spot of this is that the civil service&co incl. its pensioners will see its size, income and influence collapse to the proper level with and after that collapse, as, for decades, only what the public sector earns can be used to fund it, and/as borrowing will be unavailable even at then high interest rates.
See Germany from 1945-1970s as the blueprint.
The challenge will be to stay on a libertarian course instead of succumbing to a Keynesian one once the real and healthy growth phase comes to an end, like they unfortunately did in the 70s.
She’s certainly trying to.
The whole purpose of this is to bankrupt & collapse economies so that the country can be ‘saved’ by the bankers with a digital currency linked to UBI & all the rest of the scam.
It’s how the US has operated in developing countries for decades… All in the aim of control of assets.
It just doesn’t make sense to me, all this financial help for households, while welcome for many, is shaking a money tree that by all accounts is dead and ready for the chop. I really can’t see this ending well for the ‘man in the street’ (as they used to say). What amazes me is the government goes about wrecking the economy irretrievably with a certain sort of relish, like it’s a race to the bottom.
Oh, and I think we are going to have a cold winter too from what I have been reading, due to a huge volcanic eruption earlier this year (Tonga, January I think) which has put massive amounts of water vapour in the air – however, if this does happen it will all be blamed on us useless humans and our ’emissions’, natch.
….and all when there is no shortage of coal, gas or oil!!
just think how much worse it would be if they were really in short supply….?
I want to say clown world..but it’s so much more serious than that…I just can’t help but see it as a concerted effort to kill millions and send many more millions into squalor and poverty….
“I just can’t help but see it as a concerted effort to kill millions and send many more millions into squalor and poverty….”
Mass deaths followed by poverty and enslavement for the survivors. That is my summary of Agenda 2030.
Looks like things are going according to plan then.
We should impose a windfall tax of 80% on MP’s who voted for Net Zero. Until such time as it is repealed.
Great idea. And 100% for all the time they voted in favour of lockdowns etc.
This tax payer funded price cap must be one of the most expensive election gimmick (GE in 18 months) ever. What disgusting depths of scamming the Tories have descended to. We should expect more of the same in the run up to the election.