See update at the end for:
It’s official.
Britain is now a 3rd world country, with over £2,000,000,000,000 of debt!
How more shops could be open instead of a ghost town:
Oxford Circus.
Prior to the lockdown of shops, it was central London’s busiest crossroads!
(Image courtesy of the Metro 27-5-20)
‘Spot the brain cell’ is the opening sketch from side two of the LP: Monty Python live at Drury Lane.
Introduced as: ‘the ritual humiliation of the old and greedy’ by quizmaster John Cleese, it poked fun at contestants (other members of the Pythons).
‘Spot the brain cell’, for this particular article, applies to those, moreover, one specific person, who, it has to be said, don’t have enough brain cells nor common sense to organise the dilemma presented by covid19 (also spelt covid-19).
At present, and since the lockdown of most non-essential shops, the government’s incompetence has and will cost the tax payer dearly, almost as if everyone who is not in paid work is in receipt of something equal to and greater than Jobseeker’s allowance, while, if they had enough brain cells and common sense, that need not be the case.
Plain and simple, more high street shops could, can and should be open than is the current situation. It’s all about using common sense and organisation. Something that the British government and Boris Johnson are totally lacking in.
Queues for shops, in particular, supermarkets, are the main concern, while the more shops there are open the less queues there would be with customers wanting goods from multiple shops.
So, how does it work?
Simple! With trading days for non-essential shops limited to Monday to Saturday, 6 days a week, shops 1, 7 and 13 etc would only be open on Monday, while shops 2, 8 and 14 would be open on Tuesday. If it came to it, they could alternate shop hours, 1 and 13 in the morning and 7 and 19 open in the afternoon.
Going back to the comedy aspect of ‘Spot the brain cell’, a quiz that very much poked fun at and made a clown of the contestants, Boris Johnson said this of himself when he appeared on a 1998 edition of satirical BBC2 show ‘Have I Got News For You’.
Ultimately, it’s for local government, under the approval of central government, those responsible for running the country including the economy, to establish the order of which shops open, while the shops, themselves, simply post the day of the week they can open along with the time. ‘What’ could be more simpler than that, while I dare say a teenager could work it out.
Update! 9/6/2020. Following the TRUTH’s e-mail to the Education Secretary and the Conservative party, informing them of this article, along with several others, shops will get back to some semblance of normal next week, while it will be interesting to see if the Government has the (common) sense to have worked out the TRUTH’s solution above, otherwise the public, YOU, could be at risk from covid19.
WARNING!
Ignorance of the TRUTH (see above) has a price, and it’s one that the British public will pay for in the long run, and through retail price increases as well as tax increases, in order to recoup the many millions of pounds in lost revenue as a result of the enforced closures.
The British government has offered to pay businesses that sign up to its furlough scheme, 80% of their employees wages. The current ‘minimum wage hourly rate’ is £6-45 for those age 18 to 20 and £8-72 for those age 25 and over. A 40 hour week (9 to 5 five days a week) includes an hour per day for lunch, which is unpaid, and so the total paid weekly hours are 35. For those in the lower age group the 80% Furlough rate works out at a minimum of £180-60 per person per week, while, for the higher age group, the vast majority of employees, it works out at a minimum of £244-16 per person per week.
In addition to that burden on the tax payer, there is the many millions of pounds lost through VAT, the loses of which will have to be recouped through tax increases.
The same also applies to each and every one of the closed shops and businesses. Not only are they losing profits, something that will please their shareholders less and less the longer the Government’s mishandling continues, but for those who lease their business premises they will have to go on paying rent while all of them will have to pay Council tax.
UPDATE!
Counting the cost of the government’s incompetence in handling Covid-19, as mentioned above and to YOU, the taxpayer.
According to an article on page 2 of the Metro dated October 22 2021, Government debt currently stands at: £2.2 trillion, numerically speaking, over: £2,000,000,000,000 – the highest ratio since March 1963.
The article, headed: ‘£4bn (£4,000,000,000) just to pay interest on Covid debt’, also explains: Overall, the public sector borrowed £319.9 billion (.1 shy of £320,000,000,000) between the end of March and September (6 months).
With the negative economy mentioned above, plus that amount of debt, it is now official! Britain is currently a 3rd world country, one with nothing else, save for the emergency services (Fire, ambulance and the police) to sell off. As a result, the only way to reduce and repay that staggering debt of over £2,000,000,000,000 (not forgetting the interest) is to increase taxes while cutting back on public spending. Especially since the alternative, as mentioned above, is and has been, beyond the comprehension of British Governments before and since 1994.
UPDATE!
February 2022
As the TRUTH rightly foretold and warned (see above), the cost of living has gone up, in particular, food. In one case, I noticed, something had gone up by a STAGGERING 25%! While it need not have happened with competent handling of the dilemma.
UPDATE!
July 25 2022
On the same day that the front page of most newspapers carried an article about the state of Britain’s NHS, an item inside the Metro mentions:
The interest on Britain’s debt is a staggering £20,000,000,000 per month!
Imagine what that amount (£20,000,000,000 a month), let alone the debt of over
£2,000,000,000,000, could better be spent on!
