This will be the point where public opinion rapidly turns. It’s already happening - my local Facebook has even had a few anti-mask posts in the last couple of days, which is a first.
The job loss tally is already creeping up. What do they expect is going to happen when people find they physically cannot pay their bills, especially when this will be able to be directly blamed on political policies and decisions?
Likewise the taxpayer cannot keep splashing out on measures like this. There’s begging hands coming at it from all directions, and most of this is as a result of deliberate policy decisions.
I fear this is now a juggernaut that’s out of control.
And if hospitality is now being singled out as such a major issue, it cannot have been a sensible decision to crowd it out during August. That was Sinai’s baby, and he should be held accountable for that. If only cost half a billion of our tax.
Of course all this has to be paid back by the Great British Public at some point, one assumes higher Income Tax and higher VAT at some point,
IF there are any shops left to gp into, I see Edinburgh Woollen Mills, that have shops, and aso own PRIMARK and JAEGER, are also calling in the administrators, with 24,000 jobs at risk to go, the downward spiral of the UK gets faster, of cours eit was CINEWORLD last week, and the ODEON chain is not that healthey either.
Increasing taxes is not some magical way to unlimited government purchasing power.
This government is expending colossal quantities of purchasing power in a likely futile attempt to keep pensioners alive, largely for political advantage.
The cost per QALY vastly exceeds that justified for all other public health interventions according to NICE et al.
This purchasing power will have to be extracted from teh economy eventually - either through inflation, austerity or taxation.
Scandinavia has a fundamentally different economy to the UK, and in many ways is considerably more Staid.
I myself would welcome such an economy, but many would not like the inevitable consequences of it.
HAS anyone asked what the Pensioners really want ? Do they want to fester in their home, or a care home, or rather see family, and have at least some life in the latter years, we all know we have to go at sometime, it is never nice for those left behind, some lived through 2 World Wars, and more, and this must be the first time that have ever been told to 'put life on hold' for months and months, even in WW2 you put a tin hat on and got on with it ! no pussy footing about, running away, they lived life to the full as best they could.