Leaked report warns of Covid-Brexit “horror show” – remember THIS IS WHAT BORIS JOHNSON WANTS
Two-fingered salute: the UK might fall into lawlessness and chaos because of Boris Johnson but he doesn’t care, as long as he gets what he wants.
A Cabinet Office “reasonable worst-case” report on the effects of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit combining with another wave of Covid-19 has laid out exactly what Boris Johnson wanted for the UK when he became PM.
Johnson, you’ll remember, did not want any trade deals with the European Union after the UK leaves that bloc.
It was widely believed that this is because the hedge fund managers who supported his bid to be Tory leader have bet heavily on the UK going into recession, with many big-name firms going out of business. The claim was that they could make £8 billion out of it.
Of course, none of these multi-billionaires care a fig about the rest of us. If the country falls into chaos they’ll be off to their holiday homes in the sun, with their cash safely stowed in a tax haven.
Meanwhile, back in Blighty, you will be left to deal with food, fuel and power shortages, illness and deaths caused by flood, flu and Covid-19, and incursions into the country from outside such as EU boats coming into our fishing waters.
And, as may reasonably be expected from his government’s failures so far on Covid-19 – the school reopening furore, school meals, exam results, care home deaths, PPE procurement, face mask procurement, test and trace, contract nepotism… the list goes on and on – on flooding (remember that?) and on any other subject you care to mention, the Johnson government has not planned any response to this at all.
The article goes on to state:
- One in 20 Town Halls could go bust in a second Covid wave, sparking social care chaos.
- The economic impact of the virus and Brexit could cause public disorder, shortages and price hikes.
- Troops may have to be drafted on to the streets to help the police in the worst-case scenario — 1,500 are already on stand by.
- Social distancing measures and masks will have to continue until 2021 regardless.
- Supplies of food and fuel are all under threat this Christmas if Dover becomes blocked.
The planners warned that “pandemic influenza, severe flooding, a Covid second wave and an unruly exit from the EU transition period could cause a systemic economic crisis with major impact on disposable incomes, unemployment, business activity, international trade and market stability.”
It could be combined with likely “coordinated industrial action” as well as shortages risking public disorder and a mental health crisis that will hit the poorest hardest.
Nobody in a Tory government is going to worry about a mental health crisis that harms poor people, of course.
And the attitude by leading Tories to this frankly terrifying report seems to be that if they ignore it, it will go away.
Michael Gove is quoted as babbling: “We got Brexit done with a great deal in January.
“A brighter future awaits as we forge our own path.”
A government spokesperson did add that this was a “reasonable worst case” scenario.
But on the Johnson ministry’s record so far, it is stretching the facts to breaking point to suggest that the government is “ensuring we are ready for all eventualities”.
That simply is not going to happen. On the evidence of the last 12 months, it would be irresponsible to believe anything Johnson, his ministers or his spokespeople say about it.
But there’s one more matter to remember:
If this disaster happens, then there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, other than to prepare as well as you can (because the Tories simply won’t).
I anticipate another stockpiling splurge, worse than the rush for toilet roll in March, at the very least.
Obviously the worst-case will be social unrest and violence – and I’m not ruling that out, either.
Whatever happens, if we end up with no deal and any of the feared outcomes are triggered, you must remember (because he’ll lie about it):
It is what Boris Johnson wanted all along.
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… “hedge fund managers who supported his bid to be Tory leader have bet heavily on the UK going into recession, with many big-name firms going out of business. The claim was that they could make £8 billion out of it.”…
This is already happening, despite the billions the Bank of England, with their QE, is pouring into big companies, who yet are making millions jobless, just to keep rich shareholders wealthy. Bank of England’s QE is the central bank squirrelling away assets, to no benefit to the general public.
We have a formally declared worst recession in 300 years now.
My petition demands Bank of England pay £372 per week per person basic income to each UK resident adult (from 16, for life) by the free, nicknamed ‘helicopter money system’, that generates no national debt, and is not a loan to be repaid by individuals. It is a form of ‘printing money’ that central banks can do, by sending the money electronically to your bank account.
As the new normal is an online ordered, home delivered, economy, this is the sole way to save businesses and save jobs.
It would help people escape the horrific Universal Credit, as even council jobs are lost, which is also happening already.
Social care chaos has also been happening for a long time. £372 per week per person basic income also to pensioners, would help them remain in their own homes.
The lie all pensioners are well off, is disproved by the highest early death rate in our 50s and 60s especially of women from pension age rise, highest rate of quicker death in retirement, and doubling of pensioner deaths under this Tory government since 2010.
Now the over 65s are amongst the highest numbers falling out of work, who were still in work as could not afford to retire. From 50, never mind 60 and above, least likely to find a new job.
Please might you widely share my basic income petition
https://community.sumofus.org/petition/cc4ddaed-e0c3-4a7b-b8bc-1689fba0a0ba/