Another 378 People Die With Coronavirus In The United Kingdom

The latest official figures reveal that some 24,141 new cases of COVID 19 have been recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 1,123,197. The death toll now stands at 48,120.

The grim figures mark the third day in a row where the death toll has surpassed levels not seen since May, during the first wave and yesterday saw 492 deaths in the United Kingdom, the highest since May 19, while Tuesday’s toll was 397, the highest since May 27.

Separate figures from the UK’s statistics agencies for deaths where COVID 19 has been mentioned on the death certificate suggest that there have now been about 63,000 deaths involving coronavirus in the United Kingdom.

It comes as the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that the furlough scheme would be extended until March, which will come as a relief to workers hit by new regulations closing businesses to arrest the spread of the virus, as the second wave grips Britain.

NHS England has said a further 236 people who tested positive for coronavirus had died in hospital in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths reported in the setting to 33,873.

Patients were aged between 27 and 99 and all except eighteen, aged between 48 and 96, had known underlying health conditions – the deaths were between October 23 and November 4.

Twelve other deaths were reported with no positive COVID 19 test result and in Scotland, which recorded its highest number of deaths since May, another 39 deaths were recorded, in the past 24 hours.

The First Minister added that the death toll under this measure, of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days, had increased to 2,966 and she said the country had also recorded 1,216 positive tests in the past 24 hours, meaning 69,660 people have now tested positive in Scotland, where 95 patients are in intensive care.

She said the country had also recorded 1,216 positive tests in the past 24 hours, meaning 69,660 people have now tested positive in Scotland, where 95 patients are in intensive care.

She said the country had also recorded 1,216 positive tests in the past 24 hours, meaning 69,660 people have now tested positive in Scotland, where 95 patients are in intensive care.

Wales has recorded a further 1,272 cases of COVID 19, bringing the total since the pandemic started to 56,927 and Public Health Wales added that another 30 people had died taking the country’s total since the beginning of the pandemic to 1,969.

Northern Ireland’s Department of Health reported eight further coronavirus linked deaths and 516 new cases.

However, there are so many without symptoms that test positive and everyone is tested on arrival at the hospital. What we need are the figures of how many have died due to the effect of COVID rather than just having tested positive for it – that would help gauge the actual danger we’re in.

I am also extremely sorry for anyone that has recently lost someone they love, for whatever reason.

And some people believe that Boris Johnson had COVID and Donald Trump just before the voting – such excellent timing and didn’t they make a speedy recovery and it now seems that everything is labelled COVID – if you sneeze it’s COVID if you cough it’s COVID, and I daren’t look at anyone because they think I’m some kind of pariah – wake up, question everything!

The Government has lied to us our entire lives, mind you if they started being honest with us now, we probably would find it extremely bizarre and what they need to remember is that if they can’t manage the pandemic, then they shouldn’t expect others to take advice from them – COVID is real, but the seriousness of it, not so much.

Biden’s Lead In Arizona Narrows To Just 68,000 Votes After A New Batch Of Absentees Heavily Favoured Donald Trump

Democrat Joe Biden’s lead in Arizona has narrowed to just 68,000 votes after a new batch of absentee votes heavily favoured Republican President Donald Trump, giving new life to the Trump camps view that a victory is still achievable.

Donald Trump won the batches of some 140,000 additional votes from Maricopa County counted Wednesday and early Thursday by a roughly 57-40 margin, almost exactly the margin he needs in all the state’s outstanding votes to succeed.

After the new votes were counted, the statewide tallies stood at 1,469,341 votes, or 50.49 per cent, for Joe Biden and 1,400,951 votes, or 48.14 per cent, for Donald Trump – an estimated 400,000 votes had yet to be totalled in the state as of early Thursday.

Media outlets including the Associated Press have already projected Joe Biden as the winner in Arizona, predicting that his present lead is insurmountable, but the latest numbers gave Donald Trump’s supporters hope.

Paul Bentz, a Republican pollster with the consulting firm HighGround, told the Arizona Republic that Donald Trump would have to win 57.6 per cent of the outstanding votes in the state to crush Joe Biden’s lead.

Although that’s practically the exact margin by which Donald Trump won the latest batch of absentee ballots, the Republican would have to repeat that performance across the state, including places that tilt more Democrat.

Paul Bentz said that he couldn’t afford to trip up once, unless the next day suddenly he surges way back and he continued that it was a good first day, after the election. The question is, can he keep up this pace?

Paul Bentz said Wednesday was the best the Trump campaign could have wished for after being down by so much on Tuesday night and the President’s campaign still has a shot.

If Trump were to convert Arizona to his column, he could still lose in one of the following states and emerge victorious: Nevada, Georgia or North Carolina.

With Arizona for Biden, all three states are must-wins for Trump. In either scenario, Donald Trump must win Pennsylvania to retain the White House.

Earlier on Wednesday, Trump supporters, some armed with rifles and handguns, assembled outside an election centre in Arizona after unfounded rumours that votes for the Republican president were deliberately not being counted. Chanting ‘Stop the steal!’ the protestors stood in front of the Maricopa Country Elections Department in Phoenix.

Hopefully, it’s over for Donald Trump – he needs to take his defeat and pack his bags and go. But what I don’t understand is how Donald Trump has been President for four years and he’s still permitted to go on national TV with that horrible orange face.

And while we shouldn’t care about the colour of his face, you’d think he would have made a bit of an effort and until that magic 270 has been hit, nothing is official and Donald Trump is still the President and he could still win this.

68,000 votes don’t mean anything – it’s the electoral college ballots that have to be looked at and yes, he does still have a path to the White House, but he will need to win pretty much every State that has not finished counting.

JABBY XMAS

COVID jabs may be ready by Christmas, the NHS’s boss said and that the results of clinical trials were due within days, and Sir Simon Stevens stated that, if the vaccine is approved, he’d primed GPs for a December rollout.

He said yesterday on the eve of the lockdown that they were waiting to fire the starting pistol and that it could mean that Brits might get vaccinated when the country comes out of lockdown and just in time for Christmas.

Vaccine chiefs said the United Kingdom would have accumulated 14 million doses of the two front running jabs by the end of the year and NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens stated yesterday it was a ten out of ten ready to roll out mass vaccinations.

Government sources said a verdict on one, made by US pharma colossus Pfizer, will be out imminently and Kate Bingham, chair of the UK vaccine task force, said patients could be receiving a safe and effective vaccine within weeks and that she was 50 per cent convinced that all vulnerable Brits would be vaccinated by Easter.

And NHS bosses say revolutionary plans to vaccinate millions in record time will see Nightingale hospitals become mass COVID vaccination centres and travelling teams will visit care homes, while paramedics, physios and other health workers will support GPs and nurses to help deliver the nationwide rollout.

Sir Simon said that their job was just to make sure that they were prepared and waiting and able to fire the starting pistol and he said, how certain are we that we will be able to get going with at least some coronavirus vaccinations before Christmas if it were available? He responded, ten out of ten.

Sir Simon said the working hypothesis is that elderly Brits will get the jab first, followed by frontline health and social care workers.

In a different briefing, Ms Bingham told MPs the probabilities of developing a vaccine that lowers infection and deaths are extremely high and that she expects to see favourable provisional data from two of the front runners, Oxford University and Pfizer within weeks.

Ministers have already secured 40 million doses of the Pfizer jab, enough to treat 20 million patients, with ten million set to be delivered by the end of next month.

Professor Andrew Pollard, from the Oxford team, said an effective vaccine would also be a tremendous benefit help for other patients and hopefully it will be a monumental success, the same as all other vaccine programmes have been.

Although, I think that we should remember the Thalidomide catastrophe, the marvel drug that wasn’t tested correctly and lots of women ended up having deformed children.

Vaccines are wonderful when they’ve been tested correctly, but I’m not convinced that this can be done in a year.

Furthermore, the swine flu vaccine, that was thought to have triggered narcolepsy in 800 people, especially children from the United Kingdom, and I fear that numerous people in the United Kingdom and other countries will not want to get immunised with the COVID jab.

There’s no vaccine for SARS, which is 18 years old, there’s no vaccine for MERS, 8 years old, both coronavirus’s, so what makes people believe they can get a vaccine within 12 months?

And of course, the Thalidomide drug wasn’t a vaccine, it was an anti morning sickness medication, but the point is, if vaccines and medications are not tested correctly, we have no concept of what long term consequences they can have on our bodies.

Furious Nigel Farage Loses Temper With Piers Morgan

Nigel Farage lost his temper with Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain as the pair became embroiled in a fierce row live on air.

The right-wing politician, 56, appeared on the show to talk about the US election, but things turned sour between the two pals when Piers Morgan asked his view on Donald Trump’s statement about injecting disinfectant to combat coronavirus.

US President Donald Trump had been criticised by the medical community back in April after appearing to propose injecting disinfectant into the skin.

Piers Morgan pointed out the comment and referred to Donald Trump’s proposal to inject bleach into the skin, but Nigel Farage was enraged over the comment and demanded that Piers Morgan grow up and stop talking utter rubbish.

He went on to accuse Piers Morgan of sinking to the gutter and branded the interview the lowest grade interview he’d done in twenty years and Nigel Farage raged that Donald Trump didn’t talk about the word bleach and that they were talking about the person who’s going to become the leader of the western world.

Piers Morgan responded that he didn’t think the President stand there instructing people to inject bleach was good, but Nigel Farage insisted he hadn’t said bleach, then the clip of Donald Trump was replayed.

Piers Morgan pointed out that disinfectant was bleach and Nigel Farage continued to reiterate that he hadn’t emphatically said bleach, and then Nigel Farage snapped and said that he wasn’t surprised that his viewers were going down.

Susanna Reid then leapt in, pointing out that they weren’t going down and that they were going up and it was fake news.

To be honest Donald Trump didn’t say bleach, he said disinfectant which isn’t the same thing because bleach is a lot more toxic and there’s also medical disinfectant that’s used in hospitals, but saying that, you definitely wouldn’t want to be injecting it into the skin, I’d much rather wait for a vaccine!

I’m not a fan of Nigel Farage, far from it and Piers Morgan was already in the gutter, so he didn’t have to sink very far, and he takes delight in putting others down, just to feed his warped ego, and as for Nigel Farage, I do hope he’s being paid enough money to make a complete doofus of himself.

But whether it was bleach or disinfectant, both are equally as poisonous and should never be consumed and warning signs on bottles say so, and this was such lazy journalism by Piers Morgan.

That incident had already been exhaustively debated and what he should have been doing was talking about what’s happening now – he just brought it up to try and take a cheap shot.

At the end of the day, they were both there on live TV spitting their dummy out of their mouths like two overgrown children who don’t like losing and Piers Morgan just likes to get under people’s skins.

Donald Trump Leading Joe Biden In Key Southern States Of Florida, Georgia And North Carolina

Donald Trump is leading in the key Southern battleground states in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, tightening the race to the White House and dashing Democratic hopes of a vibrant victory on election night.

With 94 per cent of the votes counted in Florida, Donald Trump was leading by 51.2 per cent to Joe Biden’s 47.8 per cent, a news outlet reported and winning the Sunshine State’s 29 electoral college votes would be a massive boost to Donald Trump’s chances for re-election.

Pre-election polling had suggested the race was close, with analysts believing that a victory for Joe Biden would clear the way for national victory.

The Democrats were also hopeful of challenging in North Carolina and Georgia, Republican strongholds that Donald Trump won in 2016, but as of 3.30 am UK time, a news outlet reported that the President was likely to hold both states.

However, there were early encouraging signs for Joe Biden in Arizona, another key battleground that last turned blue for Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election victory.

The focus of the race will now turn northwards to America’s Rust Belt, where Joe Biden is hoping to win back several states that helped propel Donald Trump to the White House in 2016.

Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin and Ohio are all said to be in play, while numerous election spectators think Pennsylvania could the key battleground in the national race.

As of 3 am UK time, Joe Biden had secured 131 electoral college votes to Donald Trump’s 92, with the Democratic candidate picking up predictable wins in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and Massachusetts.

Among Donald Trump’s early victories were in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and South Carolina.

Unfortunately, America will be the loser if Donald Trump prevails, but at the moment it’s too premature to call and I must say that whilst Donald Trump is a wild card, the news will likely be extremely bland without him and Joe Biden in his place, but I’m sure that America can live with boring.

I mean, does America really want a despot who’s racist, prejudiced, misogynistic – someone who said he would date his own daughter and believes it’s okay to grab a woman by the vajayjay – apparently lots of American’s do.

Fortunately, some do have a brain and won’t tolerate discrimination, propaganda and gaslighting, and that’s what Donald Trump gives the American people.

And if he is going to win again, which he probably will do, the faith of people in him will be no different because the hatred in the US is way too strong and deep-rooted into people and it seems that they can’t defeat the Trump card.

It’s not looking good, unfortunately – looks like another four years led by a loony tune.

The problem is America is weak and has been broken up by Donald Trump and he’s going to have the biggest laugh if he wins, and people should remember that Donald Trump dodged his tax, failed to denounce far-right parties, employed far-right supporters into his administration, destroyed companies during the industrial shutdown in December 18-January 19 and described Haiti and other countries as shithole countries.

He also incited violence during his rallies, attempted to reverse Obama Care which allowed more people on low income to access healthcare – has a detrimental record employing White House staff, the list goes on.

The major concern is the distinct probability that Donald Trump and Boris Johnson will work together to dismantle the NHS soon after he takes up office, and we should be concerned about the post-Brexit UK economy from January 2021 onwards.

Will.i.am Compares Voting For Donald Trump To Staying In An Abusive Relationship

The Black Eyed Peas star recently made his feelings about President Trump crystal clear to a news outlet, portraying him as a narcissist who has used hostility and propaganda to divide America.

During his Good Morning Britain interview on Tuesday, will.i.am took it further and said Trump supporters have settled with the President’s stunts during his first four years in the White House.

And he said that it would be a very terrible thing if Donald Trump was re-elected over Democratic hopeful Joe Biden.

Presenter Susanna Reid then posited that despite the fact, a few people feel uncomfortable with what Donald Trump had said and done, he remained quite popular and in with a chance.

Will.i.am, 45, replied that was like any abusive relationship and that there were people that stick with their spouses and go through abuse because they don’t know how to escape, but that doesn’t mean that they’re happy.

He continued that they just don’t have the strength or the bravery to get out and change, switch it up and have confidence in something else and that was all people have known for the past four years and that people have settled and just took the humiliation and stupid antics of how he behaves, divides and steers hatred.

And he added that if Donald Trump gets in for another four years, that would be bad for the course of America.

Earlier in the conversation, will.i.am said that America was acting like they were a third world country as it leads the number of coronavirus deaths worldwide and struggles with social unrest.

He noted that seeing the racial tension right alongside COVID, a lot of people are feeling tension on both the Democrat and Republican side.

Putting his faith in Joe Biden to rebuild America, the Voice Kids host continued that Joe Biden was part of the cleanup crew – remember 2008 when we had the mortgage crisis? Barack Obama and Joe Biden stabilised the economy and they handed over to Donald Trump a pretty stable America.

And he added that they need that experience and that they don’t need division or chaos or an egotistical everything is about me candidate.

There are numerous people out there that are terrified and beg their fellow Americans to leave him, but there are many Americans that are so in love with him that they don’t care that he treats them like their nothing and only cares about himself and voting Donald Trump is like turkeys voting for Christmas.

Will.i.am is a great celeb and he’s good at what he does, but people should keep their politics to themselves sometimes, especially when they don’t live in the same world that working-class people do.

He knows that the media will publicise everything he says. I’m not implying that he’s trying to influence the election and if he feels that strongly perhaps he should have stood as a candidate himself, then everyone could have voted for him instead, perhaps he would do a better job, who knows!

However, he’s right, there is a cultish element around a lot of Trump supporters and I’m sure people would rather have a bland but consistent and dedicated politician over a posturing, bullying showman any day.

No, The United States Isn’t On The Brink Of Civil War

As the US enters the final straight of what has been, to put it mildly, a highly unusual election campaign, something akin to hysteria is taking hold among spectators on both sides of the Atlantic.

The assumption is that the United States is in a highly delicate condition, that the election could quickly tilt it into widespread violence, and that the social and political divisions presently dubbed the culture wars could escalate into a real war.

One scenario suggests blood on the streets were Donald Trump and his followers to resist defeat and a respected think tank, the International Crisis Group, which usually analyses places such as Somalia has explained that it’s presently focusing on the risk of violence surrounding the US elections.

Reuters is providing its reporters in the United States with flak jackets, helmets and gas masks and there’s even a strand of academic opinion saying that the country has never been as dangerously polarised since 1860, the eve of the American civil war, and at which point does someone need to say, steady on?

The United States today may indeed be combustible with the Black Lives Matter demonstrations following the demise of George Floyd, the vicious pre-election verbal slanging matches across the US media, and questions about whether a defeated Donald Trump would go quietly but do we really have to go back to 1860?

The United States of the mid to late 1960s was a far more violent country than it is today.

Race riots were a recurrent fact of life in numerous US cities – the civil rights movement was in full flow – the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965 were regularly broken up with excessive violence by local police and white avengers.

City centres and university campuses were the scenes of mob demonstrations against the Vietnam war that routinely turned violent.

In 1970, four students were shot dead and nine wounded at the Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard.

Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy only three years later.

Urban rioting that followed the demise of Martin Luther King that April affected more than 100 US cities and the extent of the damage to downtown Washington DC was such that there were still hints of it in the late 1990s.

For the 1968 Democratic party convention in August, Mayor Daley sent 23,000 police to the streets to counter an estimated 10,000 protesters. The result was a confrontation and four days of violence during which more than 100 demonstrators were injured badly enough to be taken to hospital and almost 200 police officers were hurt.

Hopefully, Donald Trump will end up being toast in the elections and come January he will then crawl back under the same rock from whence he came, and let’s see what happens when he refuses to leave the White House or won’t accept that he’s lost the election – those unscalable walls and heightened security forces aren’t there for decoration!

But we’ll find out in a few days – I mean, it’s not like Donald Trump hasn’t endeavoured to interfere with ballots already or asserted that he can stop the election because of COVID.

Whatever a person’s politics is, I can’t believe that any rational thinking person would vote for Donald Trump – he doesn’t care about you or anyone else – he’s a nutter and only cares about himself, although saying that, I guess that makes him pretty average in American politics.

Pro-Trump Caravans Are Jamming Freeways, Sometimes Causing Gridlock

Before the 2018 midterm elections, President Trump forewarned of caravans of migrants coming up through Mexico and with only a few days until the 2020 election, Donald Trump devotees are the ones forming caravans, taking to highways and freeways in considerable numbers to demonstrate their support for the President or make some other statement.

In some cases, like when Trump caravans waited on the I-35 in Texas to ambush a Joe Biden campaign bus, things turned a little sinister.

The FBI is investigating that incident, although Donald Trump tweeted that in his view, they should let it go – in other cases, the rallies just generate traffic jams.

Around Denver on Sunday, the gridlock appears to have been an incidental byproduct of the MAGA Drag The Interstate rally, however, in other areas, such as New York and New Jersey, the goal appears to have been to shut down traffic.

The real goal for most caravan participants appears to be a visible display of strength amid dire polling for Donald Trump, but police are readying for disorder and confrontations on Election Day, and already early voting has been tarnished by accusations of voter intimidation and unease around the polls, including numerous reports of caravans and honking automobiles flying Trump flags at times blocking access to voting locations.

Actionable voter intimidation includes people confronting voters in official or military-style uniforms outside polling places or poll watchers following voters or aggressively challenging or intimidating them.

But is this all these people have left to try? Apparently logic didn’t work, and it seems that when you’re that impotent, just get out your oversized truck, but this fits right in with Donald Trump’s obstructionism, anti-law and selfish egocentricity.

It’s a part of the MAGA hive mentality to assume the vexation they engender toward them and they enjoy the adverse energy – it’s a bullying thing, but some people just wouldn’t understand.

The irony is that they despise themselves more than anyone else, nobody who’s happy would act like this, they wouldn’t have the time.

Road blocking can be an effective demonstration tactic because, by snarling traffic, it puts pressure on local officials to address the protestors’ demands and blocking highways is a fearless expression of civil insubordination.

But, then that’s the point – one can either cheer both or condemn both – which camp are you in? But it’s a bad and even destructive strategy no matter who’s doing it.

And then you have the comic tweets for the FBI to let it go, generating disorder and endangering people with traffic jams and flag-waving – is this what the American people have become?

And it would be so amusing if all those people out there intimidating forgot to vote and do they believe that this kind of behaviour would make someone want to vote, if anything, it would make me not want to vote.

This is not America first, it’s a ME first cult behaviour and this could be one of the most idiotic things that the Trumpanzee are doing right now, and I love the fact that they believe this strategy will get Donald Trump re-elected.

You couldn’t make this level of idiocy up! And cult mentality isn’t especially bright.

I mean, how do you feed yourself stupidity? Well, it seems that in the last four years everyone has come out from under a rock and is now demonstrating a ridiculous cult-like mentality, and what, they didn’t realise they were that dumb?

Not now, Bird Flu!

Hundreds of birds at a farm in Kent will be culled following an outbreak of bird flu.

All 480 ducks and chickens on the site near the town of Deal will be destroyed to restrict the spread of the disease, Government has confirmed.

The outbreak of the H5N2 avian influenza at the small commercial premises was confirmed on Monday.

A 1 km restricted zone has been put in place around the site to limit the risk of the disease spreading while pressing enquires are underway for any evidence that it has fanned further.

Public Health England (PHE) says the danger to public health from the virus is extremely low and the Food Standards Agency said bird flu doesn’t pose a food safety threat for UK consumers.

Thoroughly cooked poultry and poultry products, including eggs, are safe to eat.

Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss said that avian flu has been confirmed at a small commercial premises in Kent and that prompt actions had been taken to limit the risk of the disease spreading and that all remaining poultry and captive birds at the farm would be culled.

There’s not expected to be an impact on food reserves as this company doesn’t supply poultry meat or eggs to the commercial food chain.

Christine Middlemiss added that bird keepers should stay alert for any manifestation of infection and report any suspected disease immediately and ensure they’re maintaining adequate biosecurity on their premises.

She said that they’re urgently looking for any evidence of disease spread associated with this farm to control and eradicate it.

Dr Gavin Dabrera, Consultant in acute respiratory infections at PHE said that bird flu is an uncommon disease in humans and the risk to the UK population remains extremely low.

He added that sick or dead birds should not be touched and to make sure to wash your hands exhaustively with soap after contact with any animal.

A thorough investigation is in progress to determine the most likely source of the outbreak.

The trouble is that these animals are kept in vast industrial sheds with hundreds of thousands of other birds with the space of only an A4 piece of paper to stand in, and it’s modern factory farming methods that make such disease outbreaks both more likely and more deadly.

This is why most farm animals are routinely dosed with antibiotics to prevent secondary infections from mutilations (animals cannibalising each other) and from faeces.

Viruses, of course, can’t be so actively prevented so you end up having these mass culls instead.

One Post, 947 Applicants: Restaurant’s Story Reveals The Depth Of UK Jobs Crisis

It was a single job advert for a minimum wage position as a waiter in a Manchester restaurant.

Buoyed by the ‘eat out to help out’ scheme, Peru Perdu, a Peruvian themed restaurant in the heart of the city was looking for someone to join its serving staff.

Within four days, 320 people had applied and by the time the ad was taken down, 947 people had submitted applications.

Recruitment consultant Abi Dunn, who posted the ad, told Channel 4’s Dispatches for a programme to be broadcast Monday night that typically they would have had between 20 and 30 for a position like this.

And said that they were surprised by that and that it was a true indication of where the sector is at and that they were recruiting in different times.

Among those applying was Faye, a dancer on a cruise ship. She’d been forced to move back in with her parents and was struggling to find a position that paid even the minimum wage.

She said it took her a long time to get a job on the cruise ships. It took her two years of auditioning.

She said that she’s rather small for a dancer, 5 feet 2 inches and she found it hard to crack through that wall to get a job, which was her dream job.

When asked about how many jobs she’d applied for, she said it felt like hundreds and that maybe it was hundreds and she said that when she first started applying, she was applying for everything, even things she was probably under-qualified for because, you know, you do feel so desperate.

Among the applicants for the position, even those with years of experience in hospitality were finding it difficult to get noticed.

Jake was most recently a manager in a luxury hotel and he thought it would be easier with a degree and ten years of experience, but it’s been a struggle and he said he probably only had one and a half months rent left in his bank account and that would only take him through to November.

Admin worker Kerry was one of 1,000 people to lose their job at luxury carmaker Bently. She said that her savings was going down and that she was able to put money into her savings and in the children’s accounts, from there to nothing.

She said that she did get a little bit of money from Universal Credit as it is now and that she just put it all into the joint account and that was her contribution at the time to pay for the house because she didn’t want to lose her house, and she said that she’s not even going to be able to put money away towards Christmas presents this year and that upsets her.

This isn’t an issue of lockdown, it’s the issue that our Government don’t want to help those in need and this is called mismanagement from our Government, but then what do you expect from a Tory Government?

In New Zealand they’ve been well managed, no more casualties and only one case that’s come from someone in quarantine, coming from overseas.

There Government gave everyone self-employed funding early on, which helped enormously. The problem is Britain has far too many people not observing proper health guidelines, so infection is running wild in places and it’s the same in the US and now very negative consequences of lockdowns are going to destroy economies.

However, if Governments gave everyone a universal living wage, then the economy would still be okay and that’s what we should be lobbying for.

There was a time when it was the Government’s job to help the unemployed find work, through what was called the Labour Exchange, but that all changed and now there are far too many unemployed people frantic to find work, applying for jobs and everyone is fighting one another for work when the Government should still be helping them.

Plus many permanent jobs have been superseded by several people working shifts, it’s called the ‘insecurely unemployed’.

Fewer workers rights that end up needing top-ups by benefits, but those top-ups allow the Government to vet everyone’s earnings – dictatorship masquerading as socialism.

It also massages the true unemployment figures by passing off part-time workers as being in permanent, if not full-time employment. On the other hand, it also suits the Government to keep a reserve of permanently unemployed to drive down wages and workers demands.

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