Brits Will Inevitably Face Higher Tax Rates Due To Coronavirus

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Tony Blair stated that inevitably people will suffer higher taxes as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic, but the people of the United Kingdom already knew this, because they’ll be a huge shortfall that this government are going to run into.

Tony Blair, who led Britain from 1997 to 2007, stated that these changes should be coupled with the aim to stimulate better value through the UK’s public services such as the NHS and how efficiently they operate.

He continued that this is also going to mean that you force better value through public services and through what government does, and it’s not practical just to spend money, and the former Labour Prime Minister said the party should be very cautious and heedful about supporting increases in tax.

It came as some members with Sir Keir Starmer’s party talked about so-called wealth taxes to pay back the money borrowed for coronavirus, which is not official Labour policy.

Boris Johnson pledged not to increase VAT, income tax or National Insurance in last year’s election, which still stands despite the pandemic, but Chancellor Rishi Sunak has stated the books must be balanced again in the medium to long term, and the former HMRC chief also said that tax rises will be necessary.

And it added that government borrowing reached £350 billion this year, which is equal to about ten per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

The Chancellor will now need to come up with £40 billion worth of tax hikes or spending cuts just to maintain debt levels to 100 per cent of GDP, and Tony Blair said another nuclear lockdown would be disastrous for the economy and emphasised the importance of preparation and prevention to avoid another spike in cases.

He further said that they’re not going to be eliminating the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, meaning that it was worth putting in place a foundation that enables it to be controlled.

We honestly can’t go back into lockdown as we were in March and April, it’s quite unworkable to think we’re going to be able to do that because the economic outcomes even from the lockdown we’ve had were so severe.

And Tony Blair said that he was already appalled by the potential damage even from the lockdown that’s been done and the loss of confidence.

And if we were to go back into another big lockdown, it would be devastating for the economy, but we can’t rule out that it won’t happen and if it does, it will be disastrous for the economy.

If there’s another spike in cases and there is a possibility, we should wish for the best and plan for the worst.

The former Prime Minister strongly recommended that we use face coverings and criticised the government’s message on wearing them.

They started saying they weren’t needed, yet two or three months ago it was apparent we were going in the direction of masks, and we should plan now, use the months of August and September to put in position the best infrastructure.

However, why should we listen to Tony Blair who led us into an illegal war, for his own self-esteem, and cause the slow-building poverty crisis the United Kingdom currently suffers from?

He’s also been the creator of our education disaster, hundreds of thousands of people, massively in debt, and vastly overqualified for the available jobs. All encouraged to spend more time in education to conceal the growing unemployment he created, and then when the burden got too great for the state to pay for, the children and their parents had to start paying, and how this man is ever permitted to show his face in public, or the media, is beyond me.

But according to Sir Keir Starmer, if you choose the Labour party in the next election he will take out his magic wand and it will all just go away.

And Tony Blair has pretty much been completely repudiated by the vast preponderance of people because he’s a war criminal, and as for us paying additional taxes, I don’t think so, and I think it’s about time these people were brought to trial.

This man needs to stop talking, and he should be in jail for war crimes he perpetrated. He has the blood of the servicemen who died in his hands – how does he sleep at night?

But the plain truth is we have the Tories in government with a vast majority, consequently, they will look to get most of the money from most of the people, while looking after their rich cronies.

What we should be doing is taxing Boris Johnson and his rabble-rousers, the millionaires, the billionaires, then us, and it’s odd how people with so much money are usually the tightest and most self-centred people.

And it’s astonishing how someone who has literally billions in their account can happily wander past people starving in the street, while the most disadvantaged will still strive to help those less advantageous.

The things that Tony B(liar) knows, nothing. Things that Tony will do to line his own pocket, anything. And people who care what Tony thinks, probably not that many.

So, why are we completely obsessed with this guy? He only has to put his socks on and we’re salivating over his every word, with most of them being either irrelevant or mainly blindingly evident.

So, the well off will be bailed out by the workers as normal, who also pay for the shortcomings of the state, and those people who saved for a potential disaster like this will get nothing in contributions.

Government Unveils 12-week Program To Help Britons Slim Down

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The government has unveiled a 12-week program to encourage all Britons to become fitter and slimmer, in a move that will see GPs prescribe cycling to help curb obesity, and as part of the Better Health campaign, NHS weight loss services are to be expanded to give people more targeted nutritional direction and make specialist support referrals more accessible.

In a pilot trial, GPs will be prompted to appropriately prescribe cycling to help increase fitness levels, as studies reveal it’s linked to a 46 per cent lower chance of heart disease compared to a non-active commute.

The move comes as Public Health England discovered excess weight put people at higher risk of severe illness or death from coronavirus, following an examination of existing studies.

With more than a third, 36 per cent of UK adults are classified as overweight, and 28 per cent obese, and the proposals are supposed to encourage people to lose weight before a possible second wave of coronavirus hits.

A government spokesperson said that COVID 19 has given us all a wake-up call of the immediate and long term dangers of being overweight and that the Prime Minister is clear we must use this time to get fitter, more mobile and eat healthier.

So, now the Government will be asking the public to use this time to take stock of how we live our lives, urging us to take easy measures to lose weight, live healthier lives, and reduce stress on the NHS.

Boris Johnson has been asked to extend a possible embargo on junk food, and there will now be more television adverts and advertisements, but a new study revealed that this Government appears to be targeting the UK’s most deprived regions.

The findings showed areas with greater levels of childhood obesity had increased exposure to harmful food adverts, and campaigners warned the advertisements could be hampering efforts to beat Britain’s obesity epidemic.

The research, by experts at the University of Liverpool, is thought to be the first of its kind to match the location of public advertisements on regions of social deprivation.

This came on the eve of the Government’s new obesity strategy, which is expected to include a 9 pm watershed for unhealthy food adverts, but campaigners worry this won’t go far enough as the new findings indicate at-risk groups are possibly being targeted within their communities.

The researchers used artificial intelligence to identify over 10,000 adverts across Liverpool using video footage of the city’s streets, over 1,300 of which were for unhealthy food.

The locations were then charted against neighbourhood deprivation statistics using the 2019 English Indices of Deprivation and National Child Measurement Programme data that measures childhood obesity levels.

Unhealthy food adverts were about 60 per cent more prevalent in the most deprived half of the regions analysed, compared to the least deprived half, and they said that they already knew that people living in more deprived regions were more inclined to be living with obesity, and therefore at greater risk of diseases associated with weight.

The study provides compelling new data that points to them being profoundly targeted by junk food companies and may be part of the reason for the obesity disparity they see in the United Kingdom.

Managing junk food advertising is like pressing a balloon – you regulate one space and advertising switches to another channel, so it’s vital the Government considers both broadcast and non-broadcast measures.

The dilemma is that the Tories always seem to find someone else to indict for their ineptitude, and if junk food is not good for us, which we know it isn’t, and the Government seem to want to ban them from the supermarkets, and they’re actually that concerned for us, which they’re not, then they should be troubled about the BBC charging elderly people for TV licences.

And take a glimpse at Boris Johnson, he’s also overweight, perhaps because he has no self-discipline, but numerous other people who are disabled or sick reach obesity because of illness, not because they eat junk food.

But then we can discuss processed food, and I’m not only talking about microwave meals and ready meals.

Not all processed foods are harmful but some processed foods include high levels of salt, sugar and fat. And some foods need to be processed to make them safe, such as milk, which needs to be purified to removed dangerous bacteria.

So, what makes some processed foods less healthy? Well, components such as salt, sugar and fat are sometimes added to processed foods to make their flavour more appealing and to lengthen their shelf life, or in some cases to contribute to the food’s structure, such as salt in bread or sugar in cakes.

And purchasing processed foods can lead to people consuming more than the recommended amounts of sugar, salt and fat as they may not be aware of how much has been added to the food they are buying or eating.

So, there appears to be a pretty simple answer Boris, ban all foods that have been processed, aside from those such as milk or that have to have bacteria taken from them and you will quickly end the obesity era.

He knows that these foods can also be higher in calories due to the large amounts of added sugar or fat in them, and he also knows that we have no control over the amount of salt, sugar and fat we eat because they’re in all our processed foods, but it’s just easier to indict an entire population for being overweight.

Of course, there are other foods such as red meat that can be high in saturated fat, but take the processed foods off the shelves and you would diminish the obesity rate at least a little, and it would certainly take the pressure off the NHS.

Don’t Bank On Seeing A Doctor After COVID 19

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It’s been said that life will never be the same following the COVID 19 pandemic, and the new normal has even changed the way we access local healthcare.

From booking visits to A&E, live video links with doctors, and receptionists giving a triage service, and far-reaching changes are set to transform how we’re treated.

Plans were well underway before lockdown to relieve the stresses on the healthcare service that was creaking, as GP’s and A&E’s buckled under the stress of rising demands, and novel ways of working were already being put in place to prevent emergency departments becoming bogged down with patients by offering more reliable methods of triage.

GP’s were also looking at ways to use their resources more carefully, including holding telephone consultations, and these measures were conveniently set in motion as lockdown hit but now it seems they’re set to continue.

As well as GP telephone consultations, Clinical Commissioning Groups are introducing care navigators to surgeries following trials during the crisis, and under the scheme, receptionists have now had the training to triage patients and refer them to the best service.

But, there are some concerns on how those who are less able, such as the elderly, would cope, and some struggle just attempting to make an appointment with their GP, particularly if they’re hard of hearing, they would find it challenging speaking to a receptionist at their doctor’s surgery.

And some elderly people don’t even own a mobile phone because they have no concept of how to use one, so they use their landline, that’s if they even have one, and the older generation feels much more at peace when consulting with a doctor face to face, and some wouldn’t know how they would manage having a telephone appointment instead.

It certainly wouldn’t feel reassuring speaking to a doctor on the phone as what it would in person. Nevertheless, an innovative way to remove some of the constraints has already been started, and well before the pandemic.

London based company, Medic Spot rolled out a new service to pharmacies last year, offering a two-way live video link between patient and doctor with diagnostic technology, and the People’s Chemist, in Southend on Sea, England, took on the service in October 2019, and the owner thinks it will serve to relieve stress on NHS resources, offering time-strapped visitors a fast and efficient option to the conventional surgery.

NHS bosses are also trialling a 111 first model that will see patients calling the triage line to schedule a visit to A&E if it’s considered essential.

Pilot schemes have started, with the system going nationwide by the winter.

Under the proposals, NHS 111 will serve as a triage point so people requiring critical treatment can book their care. Some will still go to A&E’s, but others may be transferred to primary treatment centres, primary care or hot clinics.

A spokesperson for campaign group Save Southend NHS said that they wouldn’t want to see telephone triage become commonplace in A&E departments in Mid and South Essex, or at any other hospital in the United Kingdom.

And by their very essence, A&E departments should be adequately staffed and open 24/7 and able to receive all or any blue light patients and walk-ins.

And with the population of Southend now topping 320,000 and increasing quickly, it’s essential that they maintain and indeed invest for larger and better A&E services in the town.

A spokesperson for the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust said that they’re now actively urging people to call NHS 111 before visiting Emergency Departments and that from December, it will be part of a national programme.

This new system won’t replace 999 calls for life-threatening emergencies such as a suspected heart attack or stroke, and a spokesperson for Southend and Castle Point and Rochford Clinical Commissioning groups said that practices have made exceptional progress over the preceding few months in delivering triage and online consultations and will be encouraged to continue.

So, basically, they’re giving the Nazi Ann Robinson lookalike receptionists more of a right to say ‘Nein’, you can’t have a service, and that you’re the weakest link – goodbye!

Boris Johnson Admits The Government Could Have Done Things Differently

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Boris Johnson has confirmed there were things the government could have done differently in its handling of the coronavirus crisis, and in a marked shift in tone, the Prime Minister admitted that lessons could have been learnt from the first stages of the pandemic.

And he acknowledged that the government didn’t understand the virus in the way that they would have wanted in the initial few weeks and months, and he said that perhaps there were things they could have done different and of course, there will be the opportunity to understand what precisely they could have done, or done differently.

Boris Johnson stated, that when they listen to the scientists, the questions that they ask are really open questions as far as they’re concerned and that there would be an opportunity to analyse all those problems.

He said that he believed that the sole thing that they didn’t recognise at the start was the degree to which it was being transmitted asymptomatically from person to person, but he would not be drawn on any particular lapses in judgement, such as lack of protective kit for frontline workers and the turbulent testing regime.

And Boris Johnson dismissed that lockdown had come too late, despite several of the government’s own scientific advisers saying that the UK’s death toll could have been lower if constraints had come sooner.

And he stated that it was on the contrary and that if you looked at the time of every single piece of advice that they were given from their advisers, from SAGE, that whenever they said that they needed to take a particular action, that they adhered to that advice like cement.

So, Boris Johnson has finally admitted the Government has mishandled its response to the coronavirus, and this has finally put to bed the Prime Minister’s earlier claim that his Government took the right decisions at the right time.

When all said and done, Boris Johnson was too slow to acknowledge the threat of the virus, too slow to start lockdown and too slow to take the disaster seriously, and the menace of a second wave is still quite evident.

And it’s crucial the Government learns the lessons of its errors so that they can help save lives, and the Prime Minister and his Government must face reality so that they can recognise where they went wrong so that they can learn from their blunders which have led to fatal consequences.

And maybe not letting people in from other countries while we were in the middle of a pandemic would have been a great start, or urging people to wear face masks earlier when in stores – this is all common sense and something that is extremely obvious.

There were UK Government contracts for PPE worth more than £830 million that had been granted to at least 12 separate companies, supporters of the Conservative Party, and PPE has never evolved.

And the coronavirus pandemic has allowed some to replenish their coffers, so say thank you to the Tory enablers you voted in, and Labour attacked the Government of handing out profitable COVID 19 contracts to Conservative friends and warned that supplies had not been delivered.

More than $1 trillion of corporate profit smuggled into tax havens to dodge taxes – UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the ‘axes of tax avoidance’, responsible for 72 per cent of global tax loss, and the United Kingdom takes little effective action against the avoidance industry.

And if deception has been perpetrated they should be named and shamed, and then prosecuted irrespective of who they are.

That said, historically British governments and local authorities are world-class when it comes to wasting taxpayers money, irrespective of their political leaning.

Lies are spread and then the onus is placed elsewhere, and Brexit was the biggest lie in British politics this decade and the majority fell for it, hook, line and sinker.

The first failing for Boris Johnson was that he didn’t attend the Cobra meetings on the pandemic. He missed the first five Cobra meetings and then later maintained he didn’t know until late that some people were asymptomatic carriers.

However, if he had attended the earlier Cobra meetings he would have known this and saying that he didn’t understand this virus was a deception.

They had loads of time to prepare and did zilch and they let it get out of control, but then the Tories have never been interested in listening, with one exception – money, that’s been extorted or extracted.

These people have a terminal mindset that is one of elitism and divine freedom to dominate. Not because of any particular skill, but because some public school head told them so, and millions have suffered because of it.

And the industrial and tech revolutions have made millions obsolete in their economic design, and then they’re therefore lied to and treated like filth.

The United Kingdom is a pretty basic and very rudimentary society, and the average Brit is afraid, terrified and kept illiterate, and then you have Labour acting all smart, but that’s like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.

And it’s shocking that so many have died through the Governments inadequacy, and I bet now the opposition parties are laughing their heads off, as this Government is slaughtering itself without them having to oppose them in any way.

And to be fair, if Boris Johnson had been honest and true to the British people, that would have at least been refreshingly nice, but it’s too late now Boris and now you’re being honest, saying that you messed up. Well, tell that to the families of the 50,000 plus who’s kin have died through Boris Johnson’s vanity and inadequacy.

Now Boris Johnson is going on about obesity, well, he really does need to take a good look at himself in the mirror – oink oink! What’s he been eating out of? The trough of plenty, and now the blob is saying they could have done things differently.

And it seems as if not everyone is wearing their masks and staff have been told not to challenge, confront or refuse entry to anyone who isn’t wearing one. Well, that’s another nice mess Boris has got us into, and one that’s totally unenforceable.

And something tells me Boris Johnson isn’t going to get much sympathy because there’s no justification for the things this Government have allowed to happen.

They are the only ones complicit in this tragedy, no one else, no matter how hard they try to shift the blame onto innocent bystanders and to be fair, Boris’s career has been one whopper after another.

If he can’t testiculate, jabber or bluff his problems away, he goes into hiding, and he might have admitted his shortcomings but he also needs to admit responsibility as he’s deemed to be in charge of everything.

Come on Boris, you’re the Prime Minister, so anything that has arisen because of what the Government have done or failed to do is 100 per cent your responsibility.

And I don’t believe the families and friends of the 65,000 plus who’ve died are going to say, ‘Oh, that’s okay then. The Government messed up and my relative or friend died as a result of their ineptitude, but it was nothing to do with Boris Johnson and his Government, someone else was to blame’.

This should have been brought in when there was the first mention of the virus, not three months later, and I just wish that our Government would learn from this and actually organise themselves properly.

Boris Johnson should have fired Dominic Cummings, that was the turning point when our country eventually lost patience with Boris Johnson, and that’s when he lost control of the country, and he will never get that back, and that was his damaging mistake.

Because prior to the Dominic Cummings embarrassment, most people were doing what the Government told them to do, and when Dominic Cummings wasn’t fired, people justifiably decided that if the rules didn’t apply to him, then the rules didn’t apply to them either.

And now it’s the denial of their mistakes, and the instant endeavours to condemn someone else, which highlights Boris Johnson as mean-spirited and callous.

After all, it was there in the public domain what would happen if the UK buried its head in the sand. Italy produced a blueprint and the Far East was taking it really seriously from day one.

And it seems that several more underdeveloped countries had done an exceptional job at containing their outbreaks, while here in the United Kingdom we’re still bickering over face coverings.

The virus came from China and it made it as far as our relatively near neighbours Italy, so why didn’t our Government not realise it was going to come here to the United Kingdom when it reached Italy and lockdown quickly?

Even the SAGE government advisers stated if lockdown had come one week earlier as they had urged the Government to do, half the deaths could have been averted.

Face Mask Rules In Takeaways Finally Confirmed

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People grabbing takeaway coffee or food in England will have to wear a face covering.

Brandon Lewis cleared up days of uncertainty over compulsory masks that have been launched in England, and it’s now law to wear a face-covering in shops and supermarkets in England, with £100 fines for rule-breakers.

But people won’t have to wear a mask in restaurants or bars, because it’s impossible to do so while eating or drinking, but that left uncertainty over the dictates for takeaway food and drink outlets, like Pret a Manger or McDonald’s.

For days, ministers failed to clear up the situation before full laws were issued, but now Brandon Lewis stated you will have to mask up in a takeaway, depending on why you’re going there.

If you’re sitting down and eating in the takeaway, you don’t need a mask, but if you’re paying for food or drink then taking it out, you do need a mask.

Brandon Lewis said people will also need to wear masks in high street banks and indoor petrol station counters, as those are effectively a retail outlet, and he insisted the rules were reasonable common sense.

You have to sit down straight away if you’re going to eat in, and if you can sit at a table, you don’t need to wear a mask, although Brandon Lewis didn’t mention this plan and it was unclear if this was part of the official rules.

No 10 has changed the rules on masks as part of a set of new constraints in an attempt to avert a possibly catastrophic second wave this winter.

Children under 11, people with specific disabilities, those eating or drinking and companions of deaf lip-readers are among those exempt.

Shops can deny admission to people not wearing a mask and can call the police as a last option, but officers warn the law will be practically impossible to implement.

And the Association of Convenience Stores said they have urged members not to challenge customers resistant to wearing a covering, and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick recommended shop workers should only call the police if they had tried everything else.

She said, that calling the police should be the last option for dealing with a mask issue, but of course, the law is the law, and her belief was that the large preponderance of people would comply, and people who didn’t comply would be humiliated into complying or shamed into leaving the shop by the storekeepers or by other members of the public.

But what’s the point of making it law to wear a mask when the police have stated the law is unenforceable?

The police don’t even turn up to house crimes, so I doubt they will go to a store or takeaway because the staff have rung them and said someone has come in and isn’t using a mask, please come and rescue us.

This is an entirely absurd and unenforceable law, but I guess this, ‘we don’t know what we’re doing’ government needs to be seen as doing something, even if it is pointless and too little too late.

And it looks like this Brexiteer Government is prepared to slaughter as much as possible, including small shops, where it won’t be worth or indeed possible to pop in for the impulse buy as shops depend upon.

So, next time there’s a complete lockdown they won’t be there as Boris Johnson would have made them insolvent, and masks don’t make you invincible, and numerous medical personnel caught COVID 19 despite wearing masks.

Of course, this will be another Boris Johnson faecal matter, and people are getting weary of his bumbling lackadaisical failures. And the police might enforce this rule for a while but they have more important things to do with their time than to implement a so-called rule change.

If the police couldn’t enforce the lockdown properly, they certainly won’t be able to enforce mask-wearing, and this is a complete hodge-podge, and while I’m on the topic, masks should be given free on prescription for people who are entitled to free medicines because if they can give out millions to China, I’m certain they can do this for the British people.

But then that would mean that all of Scotland and Wales would get them free as they don’t pay for prescriptions and as usual, the preponderance of England would have to pay for them all.

And what loophole will apply when Dominic Cummings is caught with his pants down for not wearing a mask?

And those people who are now back at work, they will be working with people for 8 hours, and they won’t know if they have the virus or not or who they came into contact with the day before, and who might have passed the virus on, but yet they don’t have to wear a mask.

However, if you want to pop into your local shop to purchase a pint of milk and you’d literally be in and out in about 30 seconds you have to wear a mask, doesn’t make much sense, does it? But what can we expect from this government?

It appears this Government doesn’t actually have a clue, and they’re not managing this very well, and now some people are saying they won’t go to shops because they’re a lot of people in a democratic country who will refuse to wear something that they don’t believe will benefit them.

But the big question is, why didn’t they implement this at the start of the pandemic, and it makes you question if these so-called experts have any idea what we’re fighting, or perhaps they don’t, but really don’t want to tell people the truth.

And even more ridiculous, they’re telling people to go back into work, and they’re letting people hit the pubs at the weekend and then they’re going back into work – I think this government needs to take their heads out of their bum.

And now we’re allowed to go into cafes and eateries, but we don’t have to wear a mask. We can sit down on the seats, order the food and then contaminate the table and we don’t actually know if it’s been cleaned adequately for the next person.

And let’s face it, folks, would you seriously have a vaccine injected into you that’s been hurried through without the normal testing time period et cetera? The vaccine could end up killing you, and in doing so achieve what this exaggerated virus failed to do.

There’s clearly some jumbled messaging going on here, and it now appears quite deliberate, and there’s no science to back up that if you’re seated eating a burger that you can’t catch the virus, and it would seem that such mixed messaging is something that SAGE and the Behavioural Insights Team believe can shape behaviour to the discretion of authoritarian politicians.

Evidently, it’s difficult to get a doctor to give you anything to show exemption, and it will only be children under 11 who will escape the ignorance of the mask-wearing coronaphiles.

But people with genuine health reasons will face the pitiful mask shaming that will now trend, and why are staff working exempt? Now they can breathe all over you and your food in a store.

This is all quite absurd. You have to wear a mask on a bus, but the operator doesn’t, and most operators choose not to wear a mask and may have spent the day coughing and sneezing in the vehicle, contaminating the equipment you use when paying your fare, even in a contactless manner.

This is all completely unworkable, so why bother with this drama, which does nothing more than please the feeble-minded, who get some ghastly satisfaction from seeing others forced to do something they don’t want to do, in this case wearing a mask.

Have you noticed Rishi Sunak wearing a medical-grade N95 mask which filters his breath back out so he can contaminate you, but then there are loads of people wearing these masks. And he’s one of the people giving out advice, it’s like a comedy of errors.

And some people are asking why the current coronavirus has brought the world to a standstill, while a previous dangerous coronavirus, SARS, did not. Others have questioned why a vaccine is so crucially needed now to hinder the spread of the current coronavirus when a vaccine was never developed for SARS.

The tale of SARS and its novel cousin that causes COVID 19, SARS-CoV-2, reveals just how variable viruses can be, especially when they bounce from animals to humans, and understanding emerging, communicable diseases needs to be a priority.

SARS, which killed approximately one in 10 infected people and turned out to be extremely deadly, yet eventually and somewhat mysteriously vanished.

SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, was first seen in Guangdong province, China in November of 2002, when doctors there saw this unusual pneumonia, but the disease was not reported to the World Health Organisation at that time.

In February of 2003, another outbreak transpired in Hanoi, Vietnam, and a WHO officer, who later died, examined a patient there and reported a massive outbreak to the WHO main office on March 10, 2003.

Meanwhile, a doctor from Guangdong province went to Hong Kong and stayed at the Metropol Hotel, along with a number of other international travellers.

The doctor was contaminated with what we now know as SARS-CoV-1, and the virus was transmitted to at least a dozen other hotel patrons.

Two returned to Canada and took the disease there. One returned to Ireland, one to the United States. Three went to Singapore, and one to Vietnam.

In addition, several people were hospitalised in Hong Kong, leading to an outbreak in the hospital there. From that point, SARS spread to much of the world, although most cases settled in Asia.

The disease was aggressive and deadly, and patients typically showed symptoms inside two to three days.

There were few reports of any infections without symptoms, as there were with COVID 19.

The masks came out, temperature scanners were installed in all major public gathering places in China and other parts of Asia, quarantines were implemented, but the virus climaxed in late May of 2003, and then it disappeared, so perhaps the stringent quarantine measures paid off, and by July 2003, WHO announced the threat was over.

SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 are closely related viruses, and scientists think that both viruses started in bats.

The RNA genomes of the viruses are around 80 per cent identical, so what does this mean?

Our own genomes are over 98 per cent identical to those of chimpanzees, so 80 per cent seems a lot less similar, so for a virus, particularly one with an RNA genome, this is actually pretty closely related.

That’s because viruses can mutate quite quickly, and they make a lot of mistakes when they copy their genomes, and they can make thousands of copies within several hours, and the two viruses have very similar proteins on their surface and use the same proteins, or receptors, on our cell surfaces to enter the cell, and these receptors are seen in a number of different cell types.

Most studies of SARS-CoV-1 centred on the lungs because that’s where the most severe disease transpired, but both viruses can infect a number of different organs, and it’s not known how often other organs are infected with SARS-CoV-2 until there’s time to do proper post-mortems to thoroughly appreciate the way the virus causes disease.

And the scientist won’t know the actual number until they can test a lot more people, and can understand the role of people without symptoms.

With SARS-CoV-2, it takes about two weeks for the symptoms to develop, and many people don’t have any symptoms at all. So, imagine asking someone whom they’d had contact with for the last two weeks – can you exactly remember most people you had contact with for the past two days, let alone two weeks?

The crucial tool for pandemic control is extremely challenging to execute, and this would mean that the only safe thing to do, is to maintain quarantine of everyone until the pandemic was under control.

So, what about the SARS vaccine? Well, the vaccine studies for SARS-CoV-1 was started and experimented on animal models.

An inactivated whole virus was used in ferrets, nonhuman primates and mice.

All the vaccines resulted in protective immunity, but there were difficulties because the vaccines resulted in an immune disease in animals.

No human studies were done, nor were the vaccine studies taken further because the virus disappeared.

Several factors were involved at the end of SARS-CoV-1. Maybe it was the summer weather, perhaps it was the stringent quarantine of all those who had contact with infected people, but we don’t actually know why the epidemic ended – viruses are like that, unpredictable.

Many of the vaccines being developed for SARS-CoV-2 are considerably different, and many use only small portions of the virus, or the virus RNA.

This may evade the problems with SARS-CoV-1 vaccines that used more of the virus, and vaccine development has a large experimental component, with educated guesswork, seeking various things to see what works – hence why many different avenues for vaccines are being tested by various labs around the world.

But with the extensive economic penalty of Brexit coming, this country would never be able to afford it.

Over the past ten years, the Tory’s have increased our national debt by well over 500 billion so far and it’s only going to get worse.

So, wear a mask, except if you’re eating because COVID 19 supposedly has respect for those that are eating and won’t attack them, but if you’re queueing up for food, beware.

And it seems that masks offer no protection whatsoever to wearers or others. Viruses are airborne and move through the air as you breathe in or out, and this seems like it was a political decision and not a scientific one.

 

 

Vladimir Putin Has A Dozen Sleeper Spies

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Deep cover Russian operatives are rooted in our society, security officials believe, and up to a dozen highly trained illegals may have been here in the United Kingdom for years in one or two-person cells.

Now the Government is poised to ramp up M15’s abilities to stop undeclared spies by making their presence in the United Kingdom criminal, and it follows the report into Kremlin meddling in the Brexit referendum, which called for a crackdown on spy activity in the United Kingdom.

Included in a review of the Official Secrets Act will be a kind of foreign intelligence officer registration, which spies will have to sign on entering the United Kingdom or chance being prosecuted and imprisoned.

It’s not currently a crime to live in the United Kingdom as an undercover officer.

The Government are further invoking the Magnitsky Act, named after murdered Moscow lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, which can allow the freezing of Russian assets.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated that this Government was bringing forward a law, not only a new Espionage Act, not only new laws to protect against theft of our intellectual property but also a Magnitsky Act immediately to counter people in Russia or elsewhere who infringe human rights.

Sources say the undeclared illegals are instructed in Soviet-style spy schools outside Moscow.

They could be used for pre-mission surveillance and one may even have helped prepare the novichok assault on Sergei Skripal.

Relating to the Russian spy service, a former military intelligence officer stated, it was remotely likely the GRU were helped in the Salisbury assault by an illegal.

Other information undercover officers could give might include data on the coastal territory or local troop movements.

Crucially they would also know what to look for in critical infrastructure such as dams, water systems and power networks or installations to be targeted for sabotage.

Russia’s most well-known illegal was Anna Chapman, who remained undercover for numerous years in Britain and the US before being rumbled by the FBI in 2010.

Security Minister James Brokenshire stated that they were clear-eyed in relation to the threat that Russia poses, that’s why they had taken the actions that they had and that there could be no normalisation of their bilateral relationship until Russia stopped the destabilising activity that endangers the United Kingdom and our allies, and that threatens the safety of our citizens.

Labour’s Nick Thomas-Symonds told the Commons that British security agencies require help stopping Russia spies, and he said they’ve not got strategic assistance, the legislative means or the resources needed to protect our interests.

And the Prime Minister hit back at allegations the Kremlin might have helped influence the Brexit referendum, and he said that the people of this country didn’t choose to leave the EU because of Russian meddling, they voted because they want to take back control of our money, our trade policy and our laws.

And while the largely non-dom and foreign-owned right-wing media has you all chirping on about reds under the bed, there’s practically no scrutiny about the far greater menace undermining our democracy, and how the prosperous buy direct access to political leadership, influencing decisions in their favour, and until we challenge that issue head-on, our own democracy will remain in real and present danger.

But this is what happens when you have a country that’s free to enter for all.

Boris Johnson Turns Down EU Vaccine Scheme

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Boris Johnson has turned down the EU’s vaccine scheme over fears of delays, and it’s understood that following weeks of discussions about joining the scheme, the Government believes that it could delay the rollout of a possible vaccine by up to six months.

However, they’ve been accused of believing in Brexit over vaccines in the wake of the decision, and the UK has officially declined in taking part in the programme, and it appears that the UK government has chosen on this occasion not to join the internal EU initiative, but given their shared interest in ensuring that vaccines were accessible to all, that they were committed to strengthening their collaboration with the EU outside the framework.

Ministers have now struck an agreement with Oxford University and pharmaceutical goliath AstraZeneca to expedite trials of a possible vaccine, and to roll it out in months if it proves triumphant.

Business minister Alok Sharma is said to have withdrawn from the project after failing to get adequate assurance that the United Kingdom would get the number of vaccines it needs on time.

But Lib Dem leadership contender Layla Moran accused the government of putting ideology over public well-being, and she added that working together would have helped push down costs and make sure that we got value for money.

You would think that during a pandemic ministers would put political dogma aside, but it appears that for this government it’s Brexit over vaccines.

The decision came weeks after officials in London and Brussels said Britain was in negotiations with the EU about whether it would seek a proposal by the bloc to obtain supplies of possible vaccines against COVID 19.

But the 1 per cent who run the country and deceive you into voting for them aren’t worried about you or your families because they have that much money they will never have to live like you or eat the same food as you.

And I just hope and pray more people come alive and see the reality of life today and the future.

Boris Johnson and his government delayed their COVID 19 response, that was conducive in the deaths of over 47,000 people in the United Kingdom, and then there were the needless deaths of the elderly in care homes due to their policy of sending COVID 19 contaminated patients back into the care homes which prompted countless deaths, but then its always been ideology before individuals.

And one day, quite soon, Brexiteers are going to wake up to the reality that basically they’ve voted in a host of Tories whose only purpose is to get wealthy on the back of Brexit.

There’s nothing for the voters in the United Kingdom – zero, and our government are self-serving, self expecting, ruthless brutes, doing precisely what’s good for their offshore reserves despite it being detrimental for the people.

And this was in preparation for no deal, which is what the Johnson government actually wanted all along, but then Boris Johnson doesn’t do facts and believes that anything to do with the EU is automatically obverse without any thought of whether it would help the people of the United Kingdom.

And he clearly thinks that delivering a vaccine in the United Kingdom would be more beneficial than delivering it from the EU, but the people of the United Kingdom shouldn’t have such a short memory, look how badly we struggled with PPE.

However, working together with the EU, wouldn’t that produce faster and better solutions? Because of course, the UK has done so brilliantly so far. Perhaps our government didn’t wake up to the reality that this virus was going to turn into a pandemic.

So, they were delayed in imposing lockdown, slow in obtaining enough PPE and ventilators for hospitals. Too sluggish in executing a sufficient testing system, too late in achieving a track and trace system, which didn’t achieve when they did.

They changed their minds on a daily basis on what people could do and could not do, leaving everyone completely bewildered. Slackening lockdown too quick when the infection rate was creeping up and not going down.

This is incredible because it’s about protecting lives and has absolutely nothing to do with politics or Brexit, and if this decision not to help with the development of a vaccine to fight the coronavirus isn’t evidence that we’re in the hands of irrational Brexit enthusiasts then nothing is, and what if the EU develops a vaccine before the UK – do we simply let people die?

And while the remainder of the world are pulling together to get a vaccine that works Boris Johnson is convinced that Oxford University and pharmaceutical colossus AstraZeneca will find one sooner than the rest of the world’s scientists combined – so it will be fine, Boris knows what he’s doing.

But then the Tories with their private health care will get the vaccine anyhow, never mind the rest of the population, but there are people out there who are getting thoroughly sick and tired of his incessant lying and total inadequacy because the Tories only have one intention and that’s to get rich, and that’s all that they’re actually interested in.

And every day that Boris Johnson is here, the bigger the hole he digs for the conservative party, and the longer they will have to slither back under their rock and stay there when the government inevitably falls once this is over, and you have to consider that with every day he endures, more people are dying through this governments ineptitude.

But then why do people seem shocked because the only thing that’s relevant to Boris Johnson is Brexit, with the American’s lobbing him millions for selling ordinary Brits down the river, but then you only get what you vote for.

With the US alleging that it’s doubtful that a settlement with be agreed before election time. Even if it is, confirmation of the deal won’t be until sometime next year, and if Donald Trump loses, and it’s looking that way at the moment, then Joe Biden will be president and his strategy for improvement is to inspire people to buy US products.

In other words, he will probably delay ratification until the US economy has picked up, leaving the UK with no main market at all to market our goods and improve the economy.

Once again Boris Johnson’s not doing anything that’s best for this country, and he expects everyone to kneel down to him and get everyone on board to get their pockets lined instead of paying for a vaccine that could protect people, which either way could take six months plus before the Oxford vaccine is available.

Another setback for the health and well being of the people of the United Kingdom, and Boris Johnson is an overbearing, dangerous clown, guided and controlled by Dominic Cummings whose plan is to destroy everything.

And if you think things are bad now, they’re going to be way more serious over the next couple of years, and an Eton education is indeed an extremely costly education in the art of gobbledegook, and Boris Johnson’s extravagant bombastic elaboration laces his idioms with merry distortion, with a barely hidden sneer that gives the game away.

And it’s not only when Boris Johnson makes a lengthy speech – he can’t seem to string a sentence together without it being full of um’s, ha, wuf and baah, making him sound like he’s got Tourettes Syndrome than anything else, and I deeply apologise to anyone who has Tourettes Syndrome for making that analogy.

And if the government’s record on COVID 19 and track and trace is anything to go by we’ll probably get a vaccine that doesn’t work, well after the rest of Europe has been completely vaccinated.

DWP To Give Private Firms Millions As Fit-For-Work Test Deals Extended For The Third Time

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The government is set to give millions of pounds more to outsourcing colossi to run fit for work and disability examinations.

Atos, Capita and Maximus are due to have their profitable contracts for PIP and ESA assessments increased for up to two years, and it will be the third time the contracts have been extended without going out to tender.

That’s despite more than 450,000 sick and disabled people winning challenges against their assessment since 2013, and in the first three months of 2020, 17,598 people who were denied PIP or ESA had the test result reversed at a tribunal.

Three-quarters of all ESA and PIP tribunal claims overthrow the government, and contracts were originally due to last four years, but the latest extension suggests they will last about a decade.

This means that private firms will have taken hundreds of millions of pounds between them in extra government money, without having to compete for renewal through conventional rivals.

Previous extensions were awarded to July 2021 because the government wanted continuity while it changed the system, but ministers are now proposing another expansion to July 2023, after those reforms were suspended due to coronavirus.

Postponing procurement is an understandable decision, but it’s vital Government use the additional time to bring forward a green paper that will address the important weaknesses of our welfare system.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a constant, severe and disabling illness and welfare assessments like personal independence payments just don’t reflect the realities of living with the condition, and a survey uncovered that more than half of the people with MS didn’t feel their assessor understood their MS.

Atos delivers the preponderance of PIP assessments under the signature Independent Assessment Services (IAS) through a contract it’s held since 2013. Capita also has a PIP assessments contract.

The Atos and Capita contracts were first extended from July 2017 to 31 July 2019. They were then extended a second time to July 2021, and a third extension could take them up to 31 July 2023.

Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) has been delivered since October 2014 by a firm called The Centre for Health and Disability Assessments Limited (CHDA), whose parent company is US outsourcing colossus Maximus.

CHDA previously had its contract, scheduled to terminate on 28 February 2018, extended to 29 February 2020.

It was then extended again for a further 16 months to July 2021 and the third extension could take it up to 31 July 2023. The latest extension was announced by Minister for Disabled People Justin Tomlinson.

He maintained he was still committed to reforms including a single, integrated health assessment service on a digital platform, but he stated that owing to COVID 19, they had to examine their commercial strategy.

And that the impact of COVID 19 meant that it wasn’t possible to launch procurement for new contracts at the moment, even though they realised that their claimants needed to have a reliable and stable service.

And he said that his department planned to examine options to prolong the prevailing contracts for up to 2 years, which would ensure the continuation of services when the current contracts end on 31 July 2021.

And that they would continue to evaluate those extensions to ensure they only continue for the time they needed to effectively respond to the consequences of COVID 19, and that the extension period would give time to thoroughly understand and assess the impacts of COVID 19 on those crucial services, ahead of anticipated procurements.

While private firms run the assessments, the DWP decides on whether to accept someone for PIP or ESA, and the CHDA and IAS previously stated that they’ve made continuous enhancements to assessments.

Face to face PIP and ESA assessments were postponed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic – that respite remains in place but some activity is set to slowly return, and assessments are being carried out using paperwork or over the telephone.

But these assessment tests are extremely discriminatory to countless people who are just unable to work.

They make judgments based on ludicrous physical tests which have no relation to the persons capacity to work, and people who have infirmities with no visible physical disability are even less inclined to be given a fair assessment.

The decision should be left to the persons GP, who would have a much greater perception of that person’s health and their history, but welcome to Orwellian Britain!

None of these companies should be permitted to conduct the assessments as they all employ unqualified people.

A person with complicated neurological problems arising from a traumatic brain injury could get assessed by a social worker with a first-aid certificate. And you might be persuaded that the person doing the assessing is qualified but once you’ve done a little digging, you’ll find out that it’s a massive sham, and that person’s judgment could leave you with no money for weeks if not months.

The entire process needs to be taken out of private hands and put back in the hands of the NHS so nobody has to fight against decisions made by the uneducated who get ill-gotten gains for each person they strip of their benefits.

These assessors aren’t sufficiently qualified, and most of them don’t have the slightest notion of how the person’s disability impacts on their life.

The only qualification anyone needs to work for these companies is their own in house certification which has no bearing on their skill, or lack of skill, in any area of medicine, but some people have been incredibly lucky, but there’s a number of extremely ill and sick people who have died because they’ve had their benefits terminated.

What Huawei 5G Ban Means

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Boris Johnson ordered Huawei equipment to be removed from Britain’s 5G network by 2027, and he stated that the acquisition of Huawei 5G kit would be banned by the end of the year.

The move was announced in parliament by culture minister Oliver Dowden, who stated the imposition of new sanctions by the United States significantly altered the assessment of Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre, who couldn’t ensure the safety of future Huawei 5G equipment.

But what will this all mean? Will it mean that Huawei phones will stop working? And will they still be safe to use?

In May, the US issued a sanction barring US software and technology firms from working with Huawei. This also blocks Huawei chips from being made using US technology, or even inside a facility that uses US technology.

This means that the firm needs to make major adjustments to how it designs and builds its hardware, which comprises network equipment.

In January, the National Cyber Security Centre determined it was okay for Huawei to have a restricted roll in the rollout of new 5G networks, but changed their minds because of the new sanction, and because they could no longer work with US technology, and they no longer thought that the United Kingdom would be able to manage the security risks of using Huawei technology.

What does this mean for Huawei phones and laptops? Well, nothing. The embargo only pertains to network infrastructure, the equipment that runs internet and phone signals, and Huawei phones, tablets and laptops will still be on sale to the public as they were before.

Huawei devices will still continue to work as they do now. The only difference will be as a consequence of US sanctions and Google apps and the Google Play store is that they will no longer be available to use on new Huawei phones, but if they’re already on your device, they won’t disappear.

And beyond basic security updates, you won’t be able to get any new versions of Google’s Android operating system.

As far as overall security is concerned, the decision and cybersecurity advice doesn’t apply to consumer goods, only to infrastructure, and officials have stressed consumer devices present minimal security risks.

5G is the newest and fastest type of mobile internet connection. It’s about ten times quicker than 4G and more stable as well.

The government believes it can be used to improve mobile internet capability across the United Kingdom, enabling more people to get online without the network lagging, and the plan is that over time more people will use mobile internet instead of wired connections to their homes, which will allow faster speeds for people in remote areas.

Full fibre broadband operators are further being encouraged to transition away from using Huawei kit in their networks. They won’t be expected to stop purchasing Huawei kit straight away because there are currently only two firms making such hardware, Huawei and Nokia.

Having only one supplier available to make components for your whole network is just as precarious as continuing to use Huawei components, but 4G is perfectly satisfactory and 5G is about making money.

5G isn’t actually that important right now, but the decision to ban Huawei is certainly politically motivated and giving Boris Johnson an ultimatum that he had to get rid of Huawei or no trade deal and Boris Johnson simply rolled over and has lost little respect, and this is just the start of things to come with Boris Johnson bending over to satisfy Donald Trump.

But then we had all the lefties whining that 5G wasn’t safe, and telling us that 5G was responsible for the coronavirus, and how it would microwave us, and how dangerous it was to allow Chinese technology into the United Kingdom – now look at everybody, this is far too entertaining.

We’re leaving the EU but we’re still being told what to do and it seems that our government is Donald Trump’s lackey.

Oh dear, the US leaders and tyrants have inflicted their will upon the United Kingdom and Global Britain and now it seems we must toe the line, and when a big country changes its rules and the little country has to alter its policies – beware Brexiters because big fish eat little fish, and when America and the EU gesundheit the UK will catch a cold – take back control, you’re having a giggle.

This is just plain nonsense from the USA and Boris Johnson, and everyone in defence knows that IP addresses are monitored and are quickly barred. Perhaps the UK doesn’t want to pay to have IPs monitored? Or they simply don’t want people to know that they can stop China or any government spying on you.

Although, the Chinese are extremely robust and they act on their own terms with impunity as we have observed when they kept important coronavirus information while it spread globally.

And how can Huawei be imputed when Google hands over data to the American government on demand and so does Facebook, but of course, the American government want the United Kingdom to become an American state.

It’s so evident that Boris Johnson is saying yes to whatever Donald Trump wants, crippling the UK’s interest along the way, and for goodness sake, there are parts of the United Kingdom that get no phone signal at all, never mind 5G and they need to sort out the basics before attempting to leap forward.

And it now seems that America says jump and our government ask how high.

Dominic Cummings Aims To Rip The Heart Out Of Army Air Corps

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Dominic Cummings intends to rip the heart out of the Army Corps.

The 2,000 famous blue berets operate the MoD’s armada of 200 Apache and Gazelle helicopters providing battlefield surveillance, medevac and air support to ground troops, but now Dominic Cummings intends to close their training HQ in Middle Wallop, Hants to save cash.

Middle Wallop is the heart of the Army Air Corps and every organisation needs a heart, and it would be a true disgrace to close it.

The base is officially named the Army Aviation Centre and Prince Harry received his flying wings there, and AAC’s pilots are amongst the most experienced aviators they have, and anyone who visits Middle Wallop gets an immediate perception of the important purpose it plays.

The AAC has fought in all hostilities Britain has been involved in since its 1957 creation, but insiders say Boris Johnson’s top aide has it in his sights as he prepares to cut billions from our defence.

Dominic Cummings, who ridiculed lockdown by driving from London to Durham, is now undertaking a fact-finding tour of military bases including special forces HQs.

Chief of Defence Staff General Sir Nick Carter was warned by Tory MP Mark Francois of the Commons Defence Committee to tell the MoD to sort their bloody selves out.

The MP added that if not, then Dominic Cummings would sort them out in his own way, and they wouldn’t like it.

And Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey said plans for Britain’s future defence and security shouldn’t be in the hands of a political adviser.

Any decisions about the Forces should be taken by ministers and military leaders, and it wasn’t known if Middle Wallop was the only one of four ACC bases under threat or part of more extensive changes, but No 10 said the Integrated Review, which covers defence, will include all aspects of the UK’s place in the world.

But if Dominic Cummings is becoming the narrative once again, he should then go, and why is this unelected advisor deciding to cull our defences?

And now we seem to be going it alone in the world with our politicians throwing their weight around with diminishing back up. Remember David Cameron, he shut down the Harrier jump jets and flogged them off cheap – so is Dominic Cummings working for or against the people of the United Kingdom?

He’s not just content with destroying our economy and putting our political influence in the world on the same level as Easter Island, he also wants to decrease our ability to protect ourselves.

And it seems he will only be happy when the army is equipped with popguns and the navy consists of a trawler armed to the teeth with catapults, and Vladimir Putin must love him because this guy seems to be the enemy within.

And there was us thinking that Dominic Cummings didn’t have any power, didn’t make any decisions for the government and didn’t tell Boris Johnson what to do, yet he’s picking up his £100,000 plus taxpayer-funded salary for doing zilch.

Dominic Cummings isn’t an MP he’s an unelected tyrant with no public mandate but seems to be running the country, but wasn’t the whole purpose of Brexit to get rid of unelected bureaucrats deciding what the UK government does?

So, now it’s official, the receding oddity Dominic Cummings is the unelected PM, whilst slothful goon Boris Johnson is now the monkey, and just because the MoD has imperfections in its administration, this won’t be resolved by cutting necessary front line world-class forces.

Our defence is underfunded and the world is getting more dangerous, with other influential countries strengthening their forces.

We need to purchase more British equipment and spend the defence money efficiently, but this is a government problem and it’s folly to realise profits in a simple way by slaughtering a central base and the skills and training that is world-class, and when lost, they can’t be brought back at a time they wished they had them.

Defence of the nation is the single most important job next to the health of the country, but then everything is underfunded in the United Kingdom by our government – you just have to look at the police and the NHS to see that.

Thankfully the United Kingdom isn’t involved in a conflict with anyone at the moment, but if we were, we’d probably get our bums beaten due to underfunding and continuous cuts to government investment into our military.

It also results in not being ready when the worst happens, a bit like cutting the NHS to the bone and then being shocked the pandemic overwhelmed the provision.

Dominic Cummings is pretty much flameproof now, although how can he do this? He’s not been elected, so how much power does he hold? And what intrigues does he hold over Boris Johnson?

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