THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Frustrated In Essex

Labelled as manicure Monday, bosses opened their doors to customers as the Government gave the green light to carry out specific treatments, but workers said they were not busy as customers were left feeling frustrated by the insufficient offering.

Nail treatments, leg and bikini waxing and massages are back on the menu, but treatments involving work directly in front of the face have been forbidden, and it now appears that salons are not flat out, but that’s probably due to several different reasons.

Salons can’t do face treatments and presumably, a few people have chosen to do their own nails now, and some customers are a tad concerned about going back, but you would think that salons would be busy when they reopened.

It seems that phones have not been ringing very much either, but it’s believed that as soon as the salons can do more treatments and people are feeling a bit more positive about going out, then business should improve.

And it’s frustrating that salons can’t do face treatments and their customers are a bit gutted about it as well, and salons also want to make a modest sum of money and they’re not going to while they’re limited as to what they can do.

They all have their personal protective equipment and are doing everything they can to get clients through the door.

Screens and barriers are in place between clients and staff on the premises, with enhanced surface sanitation and handwashing implemented.

The latest rules will further spell the end of spontaneous treatments in numerous salons, as businesses are urged to consider using appointment only booking systems to reduce the number of people on-site at one time.

There won’t be a cup of tea with the pedicure, as food and drink other than water is to be forbidden, and there will be more disposable supplies, and skin to skin contact will be circumvented where practicable.

Customers chairs will be spread out, which may reduce the number of appointments, and if two-metre distancing can’t be maintained, for instance, when giving treatments, the person giving the service should wear additional protection.

This may include a clear visor that covers the face, in addition to screens and gloves, and businesses will be asked to keep records of clients and staff to share with NHS Test and Trace if required.

So now, online shopping is taking over and the only thing left in the high streets will be restaurants, beauty parlours, nail salons, estate agents and perhaps betting shops, and even big brands aren’t immune from the rising force of economics, and now some are closing their physical doors.

And according to reports, the growth of the number of store counts has degenerated, and old traditional shopping no longer prevails.

Shopping is often essential, but can also be time consuming and inconvenient, and now the industry has started to develop and evolve with society becoming ever more digitalised, and there’s been a notable transformation in all walks of life and is now shifting from reality to the virtual world, and shopping is no different.

And with online wholesales offering financial and logistical capability, there’s less need to leave the house to shop. So, undoubtedly, high street shops are in decline, but will online shopping have the ability and obtain the popularity to make physical shops obsolete in the future?

Now, Amazon is leading the way for shopping originality.

Its innovation and continuous metamorphosis of the industry as a whole is quickly leaving high street shops behind, but the dilemma for physical shops isn’t just one company though – the threat is coming from the digitalisation of society in general.

It began with Blockbusters, a once-mighty firm – the growth of video streaming sites such as YouTube, and later Netflix, which gradually destroyed any shop whose sole premise was selling video’s, as consumers migrated to the more affordable and more suitable online equivalents.

Take bookmakers as another example – they’re in grave peril of being closed down for good, solely due to the precipitous rise in popularity of online gaming. After all, why would someone leave their house to hike to the bookmakers, lay a bet at whatever the odds are being offered to them and then go home, only to have to return to that shop to collect any winnings?

Instead, they can stay in the comfort of their own home. Shop around literally every bookmaker online to decide which ones give the best odds and lay a bet like that, meaning that they can withdraw winnings remotely as well.

Entertainment is another enterprise, associated to both gaming and streaming, that’s been massively affected by digitalisation, and looking at gaming respectively, developments such as virtual reality offering fully immersive experiences for all variety of games, are ensuring that the gaming industry remains fresh.

It’s still as popular as ever, yet high street gaming shops are struggling due to this online migration, with some stores offering a remote, online platform to buy games from, and the New Gen consoles are even phasing out the need for physical discs, with numerous games already ready to buy from online stores.

And for both consumers and producers, it’s hard to see how the growth of online shopping will be harmful, but of course, if shops aren’t prepared to adapt, they face being left behind.

High street versions of shops may close, but the online presence should still satisfy the demand from customers, should the firm welcome digital migration, and if firms do embrace the online transformation, they should simply retain most of their custom and outgoing expenses like employer salaries and shop maintenance will be diminished or even be eradicated.

For the customer, online gives a far more extensive experience, and not only are the commodities not restricted to what’s inside one store, but they also have an opportunity to shop around to find the most desirable price, and what’s more, this is all from the convenience of their own home.

Although these could also be shut down with apps like Just Eat where you can simply order food from the comfort of your own home, and there will be no need for social intercommunication with another person except if you go and visit them at their home because everything is now online with Facebook being at the vanguard of technology.

Online shopping will never fully replace high street shops, as there will also be a meagre demand for going into stores. However, if we’re talking about which will become the most prevalent form of shopping over the coming years, it’s difficult to see how shops can compete with their online counterparts.

Maybe the only way for high street shops to compete is to also embrace technology and design a shopping experience which will be different but superior to that which customers get online.

High Street Bloodbath

Britain’s economic problem intensified as three large firms revealed their job losses bring the number to more than 150,000.

Boots, John Lewis and Burger King are axing their workers due to coronavirus, and Rishi Sunak’s meal deal recovery plan was not up to the task of saving thousands of high street businesses.

Rishi Sunak promised to put jobs at the centre of his economic recovery, but the reality of the task was laid bare with a high street bloodbath.

Just a day after the Chancellor’s mini-Budget promised discount meals for people to get Britain spending, three major firms unleased more suffering and uncertainty by announcing closures to shops and outlets.

Boots, John Lewis and Burger King followed the expanding stream of businesses axing thousands of jobs, which indicates the number of jobs lost in the wake of the coronavirus disaster has reached more than 150,000.

And there were concerns that the five-week wait for Universal Credit will plunge thousands into debt if they’re given the boot from work, and it’s believed the latest cuts are just the tip of the iceberg as the furlough scheme comes to an end.

Britain’s high streets are facing a horror show, and Rishi Sunak’s promise to offer cheap meals out during certain days in August is just a drop in the ocean, as more and more people are left with no jobs and others suffer pay cuts.

A 13-day meal deal is certainly not up to the task for saving tens of thousands of jobs on the high street and in hospitality, and the Chancellor’s announcement was a missed chance to give practical help to save jobs now through fightback fund sectors still in trouble.

Boots unveiled more than 4,000 job cuts to offset the significant impact of COVID 19, and the cull of about 7 per cent of its workforce, included redundancies at its Nottingham headquarters, stores and optician chains, where it’s closing 48 branches.

The retailer said sales fell 48 per cent over the past three months, despite branches being allowed to open, while optician sales plunged 72 per cent.

Boots UK managing director Sebastian James said that the proposals were decisive steps which enabled Boots to sustain its important role as part of the UK health system and to guarantee effective long term growth.

But shopworker’s union Usdaw national officer Daniel Adams added that after everything Boots workers have given to their communities and their country as key workers over the past few months, it was bitterly depressing news and a further blow to the high street.

Burger King UK chief executive Alasdair Murdoch warned the company could permanently close up to 10 per cent of its stores, and that only around 370 of the chain’s 530 UK outlets had reopened since lockdown.

Alasdair Murdoch said that they didn’t want to lose any jobs and that they strive really hard not to, but that one had to assume that somewhere between 5 per cent and 10 per cent of their restaurants might not be able to survive.

John Lewis confirmed eight shops have closed since the start of the coronavirus lockdown and would not reopen.

They include its flagship Grand Central store in Birmingham, which only opened in 2015, along with another full-size branch in Watford, and the worker-owned business has started deliberation with 1,300 of its workers.

Aircraft engine maker Rolls Royce said more than 3,000 British workers had applied for redundancy, with about 2,000 set to go, and approximately 17,000 possible job losses have been announced so far this month alone, on top of 75,000 last month.

Rishi Sunak had sought to stop a surge of redundancies by promising firms a £1,000 gratuity for keeping furloughed workers in employment until the end of January, but obviously to no avail.

The Chancellor, who visited the Worcester Bosh plant, had further sparked concerns of tax hikes and spending cuts to come later after his pandemic recovery fund hit £190 billion.

That would spoil Boris Johnson’s general election promise to end austerity and reimburse the trust of voters in Labour’s once-loyal red wall of northern seats who shifted to the Tories.

Amongst those hardest hit by job losses have been the lower-paid, usually with limited savings if any to fall back on, and that risks a million more people signing up for Universal Credit.

And a damaging report by The National Audit Office found that the five-week wait for Universal Credit payment after losing a job could increase claimants debt.

But the Government must end this five-week wait now because it’s creating unnecessary pressure and grief, and it clearly didn’t occur to Rishi Sunak that any simpleton can stand there and spew any twaddle.

And over the years, we’ve never seen such an inefficient government as this. U-turns every other day with so many so-called initiatives or not enough and always far too late, the entire thing is a Fawlty Towers parody.

Keir Starmer Accuses Boris Johnson Of Cruel Move

Keir Starmer has blasted Boris Johnson for pulling the plug on free TV licences for over 75s.

The Labour leader attacked the Prime Minister of savagely admonishing pensioners who may have to choose between paying their TV licence and heating their homes.

The assault came as Boris Johnson dug his heels in, and said the BBC remained responsible for the perk, in spite of their Tory manifesto promise in 2017 to preserve it until at least 2022.

The BBC said up to 3.7 million homes will have to start paying the £157.50 annual payment, besides those getting Pension Credit.

The move reflects a deal imposed on the BBC by the Government in 2015.

Free licences for all over 75s would cost £745 million a year, as the Chancellor Rishi Sunak put aside £500 million for his meal deal discount for restaurant diners, and Sir Keir Starmer stated that it just wasn’t good enough for the Prime Minister to pass the buck and indict the BBC.

The Prime Minister is turning his back on hundreds of thousands who will struggle to pay this and could be forced to choose between paying their TV licence or their heating this winter.

TV has been crucial to numerous pensioners during coronavirus, and the idea that Boris Johnson can take away so many people’s connection to the outside world is brutal.

And in a statement from No 10, Boris Johnson stated that they were bitterly disappointed by the BBC’s decision not to prolong the concession past August but that the BBC continues to be responsible for the concession and for setting out what those affected will now need to do.

And he said the financially struggling corporation should now look urgently at how it can use its abundant licence fee revenue, and agitated OAPs organised by the Silver Voices campaign group are threatening to gum up the works of the licencing scheme.

It’s considering creative but legitimate ways to complicate payments and increase the cost of collection by stopping direct debits and standing orders in favour of cheques and cash, and a small number of over 75s have said they may intentionally break the law as a matter of principle, to express their disgust at the plan.

And it’s definitely not worth the money they’re asking – make it more affordable and people might not mind so much, but £157.50 they can bite me, and all pensioners should get their pitchforks out and make a stand by refusing to pay it.

Elton John Says He Was Surprised By Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Decision To Vacate Their Royal Responsibilities

Sir Elton John was surprised by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to vacate their senior royal responsibilities.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have become dear to the musician in recent years, having known Harry his entire life through his cherished bond with Princess Diana, and even lending the couple his French Riviera home and private plane.

The first that Sir Elton John learned of the details and timing of Harry and Meghan’s intentions were when the news went up on their Instagram.

But the bombshell decision that has shaken the royal family and threatened to widen the gulf between the Cambridges and Sussexes came as a surprise to him and was described as a rock to the royal rebels, with Sir Elton John defending the couple, following the backlash over their use of four private planes in 11 days, calling Princess Diana one of his dearest friends, whose family he felt a heartfelt sense of duty to defend.

A royal insider said that Sir Elton John talks to Harry and Meghan every day and that he’s an inspiration, an almost maternal figure, and that he was continuous support, particularly to Meghan, and is highly protective of them both.

He’s been their rock, but while he would never tell them what to do, he’s been a listening ear and support throughout.

Harry and Meghan’s plan to quit as senior Royal has broadened the gulf between the two siblings, with William understood to be incandescent over his brother’s blindsiding of the Family.

William said that he’s put his arm around his brother their entire lives and that he couldn’t do it anymore and that they were now separate entities.

William further talked of his disappointment that Harry was no longer part of the team by choosing to become financially independent, yet he hoped that there would come a time when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would be singing from the same page once again.

The Queen was also pictured ashen-faced behind the wheel of her Land Rover and is said to be concerned for the mental delicacy of her grandson Harry.

It also surfaced that the Duke of Sussex pulled the trigger on his abdication decision because he feared his wife, who had not settled well in the United Kingdom, was on the verge and could suffer a meltdown if she remained in the country permanently.

Anxious to circumvent intensifying an already tense situation, the Royal Family is keen to tread gingerly, and there’s no suggestion that they will be punished or stripped of their Royal titles or HRH standing, and that everyone wanted to attain a solution as quickly as possible.

It was said that Sir Elton John talks to Harry and Meghan every day but that he was surprised that he wasn’t told, well, some things are best left unsaid, and what has it got to do with him anyway?

Perhaps Sir Elton John was being extremely diplomatic because he must know that if he said anything, they would discard him because they have new friends with bigger homes, yachts and private jets.

We shouldn’t be surprised that Elton was surprised. Let’s face it, it was surprising news, which was surprisingly surprising.

Princess Diana had a no barred interview too when there were three in their marriage, and it gave her the divorce and the independence she needed.

She was also on a similar path as Harry is now. Her presence was worth a lot of money at charity functions in the US. Her dresses were auctioned and she also capitalised on her name.

Harry is following in his mother’s footsteps, so we should all stop the hostility and let him settle down and set out his own life.

At least he married for love and not just to produce an heir to the throne.

Sir Elton John needs to worry about his own life, and when did he stop being a pop star and then turned into some sort of social commentator?

The Queen has broken rules several times to make Meghan feel welcome and that’s absolutely magnificent, but sometimes the saying ‘where I lay my hat’ isn’t always true. Meghan must have been feeling extremely homesick and it was a huge adjustment for her.

However, Prince Harry will struggle with his new life, and he will also find life a bit challenging.

The couple and their baby Archie moved to Los Angeles after a few months in Canada, following their decision to step down as senior members of the Royal Family officially on March 31.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the trio left Canada for the States where Meghan’s mum Doria Ragland lives. But a royal source claimed that Harry is appearing to be thinking twice about his long term stay there and will not apply for a green card or US citizenship in the foreseeable future.

And there have been concerns over Prince Harry during the coronavirus crisis as he self isolates with Meghan, and there were concerns that Harry has no sense of purpose and no stabilising family influence during the crisis.

Harry is someone who’s really connected to his family, it’s all he’s ever known.

He had his life with his mum and dad and then he had his life with his mum and dad separately, then he lost his mum and so he was left with his dad and Prince William.

It was further reported Prince Harry would discontinue hunting as his wife Meghan didn’t like it, so that’s over for him as well, and he may struggle in Los Angeles without his friends around him. Meghan, however, has her mum on hand in California’s View Park, but that also compares to how Meghan must have felt in the United Kingdom.

It was also reported that Prince Harry and Meghan looked at a home in the same Californian community Princess Diana once intended to live, and the couple are said to be house hunting in the Malibu, Pacific Palisades and the Pacific Coast Highway corridor of Los Angeles.

However, Prince Harry might have lots more to keep him occupied in future if speculation about them having another baby proves to have any basis, and it was reported that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would like to see their family progress as they navigate life after royalty.

A source told US Weekly that they want another child, but the couple is said to want to wait a few months first because they’re still enjoying precious days with their son Archie, but that they’ve committed to having another baby, but don’t want to put too much pressure on the situation.

Coronavirus Debt Will Take Decades To Pay Off

The UK’s coronavirus debt will take decades to pay off as the country faces the most penetrating slump in its antiquity.

The esteemed Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think tank warned Chancellor Rishi Sunak that they will be forced to increase taxes as the nation’s £190 billion COVID 19 spree leads to a reckoning, and borrowing will hit its highest levels in 300 years aside from two world wars.

It came after Rishi Sunak declined to rule out long term tax increases and acknowledged there would be tough choices in future amid a particularly significant recession, and IFS Director Paul Johnson predicted no big tax rises this year or next.

This will be no ordinary recession, it will be the deepest in our history.

Last month the national debt topped the UK’s whole yearly GDP for the first time since 1963 as the Chancellor pumped cash into propping up the economy.

Ten billion has been spent on the NHS’s test and trace programme alone, and another £15 billion on protective equipment for frontline workers, and the debt will be much higher than expected, and £500 billion of borrowing this year and next won’t be a surprise.

And IFS Deputy Director Carl Emmerson said that we’re going to borrow more as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) than we did at the peak of the financial disaster, and he said that while government borrowing is currently cheap, that could change.

He said, maintaining that elevated debt, and in particular the chance that the correlation between interest rates and economic growth turns out to be less advantageous than it is at the moment, will be a task for not just the current Chancellor but also many of his replacements.

Carl Emmerson said tax rises of about £35 billion a year – 1.5 per cent of GDP, might be required just to sustain the debt, adding it could be quite a chunky tax increase, but he added there was uncertainty around the figure, because the economy may end up permanently smaller.

Carl Emmerson stated the Chancellor also said in his address that over the medium term they must and they will put their public finances back on a sustainable foundation, and he believed that what that implied was that once they were through the emergency phase, once the economy had been established to its new normal, they were seemingly going to discover that the economy was not as big as what it would have been had the coronavirus never hit.

And if that was the case, it was highly likely the case, that revenues would still be depressed, and that if they wanted to try to bring the shortfall back to where it would have been absent the crisis, they would need to make some spending cuts, or given a decade of austerity, possibly some tax increases.

And delivering its decision on the Summer Economic Update, the IFS prophesied tax rises were inevitable.

Director Paul Johnson said that the second and subsequent acts were much more difficult to address and get right and that they needed to get the balance between preserving those sectors of the economy which have a long term future for helping the transition to a new normal.

And that they also need to actually deliver goods and services and change – that’s pretty different from just disbursing cash.

Mr Rishi Sunak indicated that there would be challenging choices ahead as the UK enters a rather significant recession, declining to rule out long term tax increases following the £30 billion mini-Budget caused spending on the pandemic to about £190 billion – he said that we need to make sure we have sustainable public finances.

And that he would distinguish in everything they do this year that is one-off and time-limited to help in the first instance to protect people’s jobs but also to protect the long term damage on the economy.

He said that over the medium term, people clearly couldn’t live like this and that we have to return our public finances to a sustainable position over a reasonable period of time and that was the right thing to do for the economy, and that he was not frightened to make whatever challenging decisions had to be made.

Sadly, it’s not only the United Kingdom that will take decades to pay off the debt by this disease, but it also appears to be a global problem – except for China who will benefit from a virus they released.

But why isn’t China paying for this? Why are they not being punished for lying about the outbreak at the start and essentially creating a situation where this virus could transfer to humans?

Let’s have a second wave of lockdowns so we can actually slaughter any promise of normal life under the guise of protecting people.

This is what the government wants because we are serfs, and it will happen in the UK because we enabled our government to take away our ability to resist oppression, and you will never convince the eternally afraid of everything, to live life like you could lose it at any time because they live for the government masters – Stockholm Syndrome for the common people and they can’t even see it.

And capitalism can’t be tinkered with and the gravy train has gone totally off the rails and no amount of amends can fix that, and it’s quite astounding the number of people who have viewed themselves on this matter and are actually siding yet again with the Tories.

Although astounding doesn’t truly hit the mark, rather, typical or even stereotypical would be more suitable. This country is done in and this society, ethically and morally is gradually fading.

Sadly, you can’t fix dumb because some people must love being under tyranny, being thankful for their little houses and a little scrap of lawn – there are only two types of Tory voters, the millionaires and the confused – to find out which one you are, simply look in your wallet.

And the government know how to help this country, but they won’t because of their deep-seated resentment for helping the working classes, and to improve the economy they’d have to support the working classes and they simply can’t bring themselves to do that.

How about our government endeavour to recoup damages from China, after all, they’re to blame for this and if they don’t cough up, pardon the pun, perhaps we should stop importing their goods completely, and make everything in the United Kingdom, that will soon create jobs.

It does make sense, however, making items in the United Kingdom would never happen because the prices would be incapacitating, but it certainly would be doable to make goods in the United Kingdom because the more we make, the more the prices would lower through competition and when stuff was made in the United Kingdom years ago, at least it was made to last.

We now appear to have such an expendable society and buying cheap is actually a false economy, and there are numerous stores out there like this.

The only way to protect our economy is to bring back British manufacturing and to stop importing and to give workers much better rights.

The trouble with our society is simplicity and ignorance, and only education can combat that. The problem is that over the years we have had the intentional dumbing down of education, which has been deliberate.

Dumbing down varied according to the subject matter, and generally involved the diminishment of critical thinking and by weakening intellectual standards, thus trivialising essential information, culture and academic standards.

And for the past few decades, our country’s educational system has seen both struggle and tremendous change, and our children are not prepared for the real world when they leave school.

The journey that takes most students through school before getting their exam results is already packed with complexities, and our struggling education system places scores from standardised testing at a greater value than the actual curriculum taught in the classroom.

This means that students are only learning how to take examinations, but are lacking in other learning opportunities to amplify their possible skills and knowledge.

Take that, along with performance gaps, persistent truancy, and discouraged educators, and students are already working with a built-in disadvantage leaving school.

And on the subject of higher education, a number of students just don’t complete college.

There is an abundance of factors to consider, socioeconomic status, individual and personal barriers, even immigrant status, and it must be understood that some students are going into college unprepared and already slipping behind their peers, and academic accomplishment will be a struggle if at all accomplished.

Countless years ago we began dumbing down educational requirements starting in junior schools and continuing through college, with numerous school graduates who can’t make change at a cash register if the machine doesn’t do it for them.

Public education has been a gradually declining disaster, and now it seems to be exporting to the rest of the globe, and at a United Nations conference 15 years ago, the world’s governments agreed on the goal of enrolling every child on the planet into primary school.

Admittedly they’ve almost succeeded but oddly, this grand scheme didn’t say anything about the quality of the schooling into which we have now forced more than 9 out of every 10 human children, and the plan was to get children into government-approved classrooms, despite what happens there.

But are the students who spend more time at school really learning more as a result? Has the goal of putting more children into the classroom really led to more children getting a decent education? There doesn’t appear to be any indication that children are learning more as a result.

And in almost all developing countries the levels of learning attainment are shockingly low and in numerous low-income countries pupils learn essentially nothing and end up functionally illiterate.

In fact, the situation is so severe in some regions that for it to be improved they would require a more frequent attendance of teachers, and we appeared to have been duped by a central illusion, a confusion between formal schooling and education in general.

And pledging to teach every child in every culture through primary schooling is a little like promising to clothes every child in every climate by giving them a parka.

In fact, until recently, nearly all children learned the necessary skills of life mostly outside of school, through watching and participating in with the activities of grown-ups.

Education is an enduring means of learning, and learning takes place not only in school but in all spheres of life, and when a child plays, or listens to parents or friends, or reads a paper, or works at a job, he or she is becoming educated.

If students in many schools are learning so little and leaving functionally illiterate, and if attendance doesn’t really provide real education. If teachers sometimes don’t bother to show up, then maybe the parents and the children feel that they would learn more outside of school than in.

The presence of this educational opportunity cost may help clarify why, despite all the subsidies and bonuses meant to help encourage children into the classroom, high dropout rates of children remain an impediment to universal primary schooling.

Children are going into school, they and their families are examining the results, and they and their families are deciding they’re better off elsewhere, but sadly, this important educational opportunity cost doesn’t appear to be on a global pedagogical philanthropists radar.

There’s no consensus on why so many poor children don’t attend school or the best way to boost participation, and if children’s labour becomes essential to the family’s well-being, it may prove quite difficult to entice more children to school, and there’s no mention of any education that might happen while the child is outside the classroom.

But for the moment, let’s go on the premise that only schooling is education and that no learning occurs outside of schools.

Under this assumption, not only do children’s minds profit nothing from a day spent at home, but most of the parents of the children in the developing world are themselves completely illiterate, benighted barbarians whose brains are packed with cobwebs.

Therefore, for altruistic pedagogical overlords, it could make sense to get children away from their parents and into schools as quickly as possible, even though in some countries, almost every phase of the schooling system is dangerously deficient, with support, teaching supplies, teacher availability and qualifications, lack of student assessments and lack of incentives for improving learning outcomes.

Over numerous decades a grand experiment engaging in social engineering has been unwaveringly working to homogenise the lowest common denominator product of sub-par mediocrity, producing crops of young people who can neither read nor write, nor think for themselves in any critical way.

And this centres on the myriad of ways in which the powers that be have been systematically dumbing down people as a society for a pretty long time, and all by meticulously calculated design.

Basically, the phrase dumbing down was used as a dialect idiom in 1933 by film screenwriters to mean revising the text so as to appeal to those of lower education or intelligence.

The most prominent example of how people have been dumbed down is through the failed public education system because at one time our education system ruled supreme, but over the last many decades while much of the rest of the world has been passing us by, it appears our insidious governments have had a plan that has been executed to condition and brainwash a population of mindless, robotic citizenry that just does what it’s told, and of course, brainwashing begins early in schools.

But prior to delving into the various ways we’ve been duped and dumbed down through the years, we should take a sharp hard look at the calamitous results, with doom and gloom predictions of imminent downfall.

The economy is struggling, still mired in recession, haggard and cut off from life support, and we’re suffocating, desperately caught in collateral damage, and we’ve become an unfortunate population that’s become prey of its own government’s oppression and tyranny, leaving its citizens vulnerable, following centuries of carefully choreographed design.

And oligarchs of the banking conspiracy have ultimately got what they’ve been planning and plotting. Globally imposing austerity and impoverishment, reducing life to near Third World status, and total control.

And the oligarchs were counting on a dumbed-down society too occupied and addicted to their video games or viewing sports or Kim Kardashian’s latest wardrobe malfunction to even see that the long time oligarch eugenics program was well underway.

But this unfortunate outcome has long been in the making on several fronts, and this is the planned system of a New World Order (NWO) highlighting a planned global economy and a planned global education system that’s been cultivated for well over a century.

Fury As Tories Set To Axe Free Hospital Car Parking For NHS Workers When Coronavirus Alleviates

Tory ministers have sparked fury after saying free hospital car parking for NHS workers will be axed as coronavirus eases.

Councils and NHS trusts in England were given money by the government in March to waive fees for hospital workers during this unprecedented time. But health minister Edward Argar announced the support can’t continue indefinitely.

And the Department of Health and Social Care has now confirmed NHS workers will only benefit in certain circumstances in England once the pandemic eases.

While the government gave no timescale for free parking to end, and free parking will continue for some limited staff, unions, LibDems and Labour voiced their anger.

The British Medical Association said the policy had gone from Clap for Carers to Clamp for Carers.

Boris Johnson could now make yet another screeching U-turn after a Tory peer said axing free parking was strange and insisted it was not even on the table.

Baroness Nicky Morgan, a former Cabinet minister, stated stories based on the government’s statements had no basis and no decisions had been taken.

She informed Sky News that she was sure that it was something that will need to be looked at again and that it did seem quite strange given how hard our NHS and care workers had worked over the last few months.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced on March 25 that the Government would cover the costs of car parking for NHS workers who he stated were going above and beyond every day at hospitals in England.

But the Department of Health has said the free parking will continue only for key patient groups and NHS workers in some cases as the pandemic eases, although no further timeline had been given.

Health Minister Edward Argar said the support to make free parking accessible can’t continue indefinitely and continued that the Government was looking at how long it would need to go on.

And replying to a written inquiry from Labour’s Rachael Maskell, he stated the provisions of free parking for National Health Service workers by NHS Trusts had not ended and nothing has altered since the announcement on 25 March.

However, free parking for staff had only been made attainable by backing from local authorities and independent providers and this help couldn’t continue indefinitely. Yet teachers and police officers don’t have to pay to park at work, but nurses do, and this is an immoral practice.

And hospital trusts are making millions of pounds by charging hard-pressed nurses for parking at work, and NHS trusts in England made about £103 million from car park fees last year.

About £78 million was paid by visitors and patients, while £25 million came from staff, and according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the burden is growing, with motorists paying £5 million more than in the previous year, and a survey revealed that nurses thought the system was grossly discriminatory, and that nurses should be excluded from the charges.

Parking costs for NHS nurses and other healthcare workers across the United Kingdom should be abolished because, with the ever-rising expense of nursing registration and petrol costs, it’s insane that nurses should be required to pay for the pleasure of parking the vehicle they use for going to work.

Exactly how far does the government and the NHS expect our much less than inflation pay rise to stretch? But Trusts say charges are needed because of the huge cost of car park maintenance, and to stop hospital land being abused by commuters and shoppers.

But nurses aren’t impressed. If you’re a factory worker, you’re not expected to pay to park at work, so why should nurses have to pay? And it shows a genuine lack of regard for the nursing profession.

No healthcare worker should have to pay to park at work. Driving to work is not a perk of the job, it’s an essential requirement and charging for car parking is an added tax on working.

The concept of charging for car parking is at odds with the spirit of the NHS, which is still bound to postulates of humanity and universality.

Parking charges stimulate more than just annoyance at cost and inconvenience, and they seem to strike against people’s sense of justice and fairness, and steep charges in England and Northern Ireland are in clear contrast to those in the rest of the UK.

Wales ended hospital car parking fees for workers, outpatients and visitants at most hospitals, and Scotland capped the charges at £3 per day and has now gone further, and Nicola Sturgeon announced that charges would be scrapped at 14 hospitals across the country.

Nurses using three car parks operated by private finance initiative contractors were not met by the new rule but the Scottish Government said it expected staff charges to be limited or reduced.

Northern Ireland health minister Michael McGimpsey introduced free car parking for severely sick patients and their families. But neither Northern Ireland nor England had any plans to eliminate fees for staff.

They didn’t believe it was a practical use of insufficient resources to subsidise car parking at hospitals for everyone. In England, hospital care parking charges are determined by individual trusts to meet the cost of operating and managing a car park, with numerous people saying that parking charges that were to be scrapped in Wales and Scotland but not in the rest of the United Kingdom was wrong.

And it wasn’t right that a chief executive on a six-figure salary paid the same to park as a band 5 staff nurse.

It’s not just about paying the fees, it’s the amount staff have to pay, and the plight of nurses and all healthcare workers who have to pay exorbitant car parking charges, and because decisions on car parking fees are made by organisations, the charges nurses face alter wildly from trust to trust.

At Addenbrooke’s Hospital, members of staff pay £2 per day to park, so a nurse working four shifts a week has to find £32 a month.

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which made £461,926 from staff parking in 2007-2008, charges workers £7.50 a month for a parking permit if they earn less than £13,750 a year, and £14 a month if they earn more.

Although permits are usually more affordable than paying a daily rate, staff are not automatically entitled to one and they can be difficult to get at some trusts, and even if they’re lucky enough to find one, it doesn’t guarantee them a free parking space.

And it’s been argued that free car parking at NHS hospitals in England would go against their environmental policies, and calls for free parking have been defined as environmentally negligent by public health organisations.

And it’s said that free car parking would effectively blight efforts to decrease the NHS carbon footprint from transport and would undermine efforts to get staff physically active, and it was recommended that NHS trusts make more effort to encourage staff, patients and visitors to use public transport, walk or cycle.

This argument may apply to those who have a choice in how they travel to work but it doesn’t take into account nurses for whom driving is the only way they can do their job, especially for those that reside in rural districts and have no alternative but to drive to work and there are no buses available so have to use a car, and it’s a pretty bad idea to punish people for driving to work when they have no alternative.

Especially when they’re working shift patterns and unsocial hours, it can make it difficult for nurses to use alternatives to the car.

Staff need to be able to travel to work 24/7 and public transport is not always accessible or reliable and is a non-starter in the more rural regions, and if trusts want staff to use other means of transportation, they have to provide more incentives.

And employers have a duty of care to look after the well-being of their workers, and it’s about putting staff safety first, and the strain on nurses is in contrast to the treatment of other key workers.

Under normal circumstances, police officers don’t pay to park at police stations, and spaces are reserved, where feasible, for those working shifts.

Teachers are also not expected to pay to park at schools, but NHS trusts are adamant that they don’t see parking charges as an easy way to make a profit, and that revenue from car parking is used for the maintenance of the car parks, and any profit is ploughed back into frontline services.

And a spokesperson for Addenbrooke’s Hospital added that if they didn’t charge for car parking, maintenance costs would come out of the patient care budget, but if trusts are looking solely at upkeep, charges should be costed properly and the amount people pay should be in proportion because numerous organisations are making a profit by charging extreme amounts.

And even though managers do have a tremendous problem juggling budgets, this argument is ethically weak, and making nurses pay to park at work jeopardises their safety.

Boris Johnson must have been so desperate to be Prime Minister – the other day he antagonised all care home workers and then he antagonised all NHS workers, who will he push away tomorrow?

But don’t worry, tomorrow he will frolic with tank top bum boys or pickaninny’s or women dressed at letterboxes, that will make him famous again with his core fan base.

Hospital parking charges are repugnant, and if this government had any sense of propriety they would scrap hospital parking fees for everyone, NHS staff, patients and people visiting their loved ones who are in hospital.

And it doesn’t come out of the NHS trusts budget – the hospital car parks are controlled by private companies and they take a huge chunk of the parking charges.

No one working for the NHS should have to pay a car parking charge on the premises of the hospital to go to work, and the charges for anyone parking at the hospital is sinful, corrupt and sickening.

And it’s evil and repugnant that people who go to work to look after people who are sick, save their lives and get them back on their feet have to pay to park their car at their place of work for the privilege of doing so, and pressing questions need to be demanded of Boris Johnson and his government because if Wales and Scotland have discarded hospital car park charges why can’t he do the same thing in England?

But then we shouldn’t be shocked, all Boris Johnson wants to do is get his fraudulent economy up and running, and it didn’t take them long, did it?

Their party song should be ‘money, money, money’, after all, it’s all the Tories worry about, and they’re never pleased until they get more.

Piers Morgan continually highlights the fact that NHS staff have to pay for parking and he made the government answerable, and it’s only because of him and his crusade that the government agreed to give free parking to NHS workers.

But now Boris Johnson is acting like the coronavirus no longer exists because of course, he wants to make money out of the NHS.

The sad thing is that because car parks have been privatised, there’s the middle man taking money from the whole sorry situation – this is Tory Britain at its worst.

It’s revolting that anyone who needs to go to the hospital has to spend absurd amounts in parking costs whether their there for treatment or someone visiting a loved one who’s in hospital, and it’s even more sickening that NHS workers have to pay to park.

The government can’t even claim that all parking charges help finance the NHS as the car parks are controlled by private companies and they take a huge chunk of the money, and this is just a slap in the face for NHS workers and it just confirms that Boris Johnson and the government’s recent praise of them was artificial and hypocritical.

And then the government are making NHS workers from abroad pay to use the NHS themselves should they get sick. Boris Johnson pledged to scrap that but there’s no indication of that happening yet.

Boris Johnson is a worthless, lying, sleaze bag and most people think of him and his clown followers as collaborators who in other times in history would be put against a wall and executed.

All in this together, I don’t think so and people in government are only there to line their own pockets, and this is sickening because we all support our NHS and this government goes back on its word.

The revolting Tories should be booted out because Boris Johnson doesn’t have a clue how to govern the country, and it seems like bumbling Boris Johnson is bestowing his appreciation to the NHS saving his life and he then goes and kicks them in the pocket.

And I hope that everyone who voted this repugnant party is proud of themselves. Doctors and nurses et cetera do an astonishing job and now this government have given them the two-finger gesture.

This must have caused alarm bells to ring in all departments, yet another slap in the face from this government for all our beloved NHS workers who’ve served so tirelessly during this frightful pandemic.

And our hearts should go out to every doctor, nurse and care worker and anyone else who works in the NHS under such a stressful time, but at least when the next general election comes around, you’ll know who not to give your vote to.

But the Tories are bound to triumph again in 2024 – the momentum will make sure of that at the next Labour conference, although it will depend on what their intentions are because it won’t be Brexit this time.

Free parking is the very least the government can do for NHS workers for all the wonderful work they’ve done in caring for people, and hospitals get less than a quarter of the car park revenue – the companies running the car parks make the most in running costs and expenses et cetera.

Of course, Boris Johnson was entitled to have his life saved the same as everybody else, but then he booted 30,000 elderly patients from NHS hospitals into care homes to free up beds for COVID 19 patients, and then he took up an NHS bed himself when he caught coronavirus, and he didn’t go to a private hospital which would have seemingly been better funded and better equipped.

Or would that have been a bad political decision to choose a private hospital instead of the NHS as that would confirm what the public already know, which is the NHS is massively underfunded?

And it might seem pleasing to see Boris Johnson clapping for the NHS, but it doesn’t actually prove that he cares, it’s merely a publicity stunt.

Face Coverings Must Cover Mouth And Nose

No 10 has advised the public to wear face coverings correctly, covering up both the nose and the mouth to ensure they’re effective.

Face coverings have become a common sight in the United Kindom as people have sought to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but there’s debate on how effective they are.

Face coverings don’t protect the wearer, but it may protect others if people are contaminated but have not yet manifested the symptoms of the coronavirus. However, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that masks on their own will not protect from COVID 19.

But the government have been pretty clear about the advantages of people wearing face coverings. Stating that face coverings can better protect others and decrease the spread of the virus if people are contaminated but not presenting symptoms.

People have been urged to wear face coverings in confined places where they can’t keep a physical distance from people they would not ordinarily meet, such as in stores, but No 10 has not made it compulsory in England, except on public transport.

Highlighting the right way to wear a mask, the Prime Minister’s official spokesperson said that COVID 19 is a respiratory disease, and if someone has the virus, droplets can leave the nose and mouth and contaminate others when someone breathes, speaks, sneezes, laughs or coughs.

Therefore, a face-covering should cover both the nose and mouth to decrease the spread of coronavirus droplets, helping to protect others.

The President of the Royal Society, Professor Venki Ramakrishnan said everyone should wear a face-covering in public to decrease the chance of a second wave of COVID 19 infections.

He said that people should wear a mask when they leave home, especially in confined indoor areas, but admitted that the public remains dubious about the benefits, but he said that not wearing them outside the home should be viewed as anti-social as drink driving, or failing to wear a seat belt.

It comes as two new reports on face coverings were published by the scientific body, including one which found the United Kingdom was more reluctant to take up wearing them compared with other countries.

The virus hasn’t been eliminated, so if we lift lockdown and people increasingly mix with each other, then we need to use every means we have to decrease the chance of a second wave of infection.

There are no silver bullets, but beside hand washing and physical distancing, we also need everyone to start wearing face coverings, especially indoors in confined public places where physical distancing is often not possible.

The United Kingdom is way behind other countries in wearing face coverings, but there’s been unclear messaging and contradictory guidance, and it’s led to people following their own decisions.

But whatever the motives, we need to subdue our reservations and wear face coverings whenever we’re around others in public.

It used to be completely normal to have a few drinks and drive home, and it used to be normal to drive without seat belts. Today both of these would be deemed anti-social and not wearing face coverings in public should be viewed in the same way.

And if all of us wear one, we protect each other and thereby ourselves in reducing transmission. But the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has previously stated that the evidence does not currently support the use of masks to protect the wearer in the general population.

But the group stated that if someone was contagious with COVID 19 symptoms, face coverings would decrease transmission.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has concluded that the use of medical masks could prevent the spread of droplets from an infected person.

It stated, however, that there’s currently no proof that wearing a mask, whether medical or other types by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, could prevent them from infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID 19.

A report by the Royal Society’s Set-C (Science in Emergencies Tasking – COVID 19) group, published that they thought the behavioural factors in the public’s adherence to wearing face coverings.

The report, which hasn’t been subjected to formal peer review, found that, in late April, the uptake of wearing face coverings in the United Kingdom was about 25 per cent, compared with 83.4 per cent in Italy, 65.8 per cent in the United States and 63.8 per cent in Spain.

What is obvious is that it’s not the public’s fault for not wearing masks in the United Kingdom because public messaging has varied across England, Scotland and Wales, and now we require consistent management and effective public messaging which is essential.

A study, published from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, found that cloth face coverings were effective in decreasing the spread of the virus, for both the wearer and those around them.

This pertains to homemade masks made with the right material, while loosely sewn materials such as scarves were shown to be less efficient.

The study further discovered that face masks were part of a policy package that needed to be seen together with other measures, such as social distancing and hand sanitation.

Authors of the second report said new evidence strongly encouraged the use of masks where physical distancing of more than one metre can’t be maintained, such as in stores and office buildings.

An update on an earlier publication from Data Evaluation and Learning for Viral Epidemics (DELVE), the report, which has not been subjected to formal peer inspection, references a study which implies that face coverings can also give protection to the wearer.

And there are people without symptoms going about their everyday affairs who are unknowingly breathing out droplets that are carrying the virus, but meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has decided that the use of a medical mask could limit the spread of droplets from an infected person.

However, that said, there is currently no proof that wearing a mask, whether medical or other types by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, can prevent them from infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID 19 – so enough said, from now on people won’t be wanting to wear a face nappy.

The Prime Minister’s office stated that they were always clear about the use of masks – when was this? Was it when they were telling people there was no benefit from wearing one or when they were telling us that the science didn’t support the use of them?

It’s not the masks that are needed, it’s common sense which sadly many people don’t have, and we shouldn’t still be arguing this in July, it should have all been cleared up in March, then things could have opened up far more safely and swiftly.

And if we can’t formulate the mask + face = lower infections, then all hope is lost, and how on earth will they deal with the more obscure dilemmas that are destined to develop throughout the next few years?

Huawei Denies Ex-MI6 Spy’s Claim That China Recruits Brits As Useful Idiots For Company

China has been accused of attempting to influence important people to support Hauwei’s assimilation into the UK’s 5G interface.

A questionable dossier reportedly assembled with the cooperation of former M16 spy Christopher Steele, claims high profile people were targeted to act as useful idiots for Beijing.

It was reported that the 86 page document stated politicians and academics were amongst those in the United Kingdom whose backing China endeavoured to obtain, and Huawei was said to be described as Beijing’s strategic asset in the report.

A spokesperson for the Chinese telecoms monster reported the accusations as groundless and stated they were part of a long-running US campaign against the company.

The spokesperson stated that they categorically denied the baseless accusations, which didn’t bear scrutiny and were regrettably the latest in the long-running US campaign against Huawei.

And that they were created to deliver maximum reputational damage to their business and have no foundation in fact, and it comes amid heightened tension on Boris Johnson from his own backbenchers to stop Huawei’s involvement over concerns that it presents a security risk.

The Prime Minister’s move to enable the company to set the Government at odds with the US, which had been repeatedly warned against the firm amid conflicts with China and Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said that US embargoes on Huawei were expected to have a notable influence on the firm’s ability to play a part in the UK’s 5G network.

He said he had received a National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) report on the Chinese technology firm and would be discussing it with Boris Johnson and China’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Liu Xiaoming, later tried to banish concerns that Huawei’s involvement allows the Chinese state back door access into mobile networks.

And during an online press conference, he also accused some British politicians regarding China as a threat or a hostile country.

And it stated that politicians, academics and other elites in the United Kingdom had been targeted by China in an effort to achieve their support for Huawei’s integration into Britains technology infrastructure, and here lies the dilemma.

Because the word elite has lost its significance, its meaning and its purpose and these people are nowhere near elite in the English language sense of the word. But the Huawei saga isn’t about security, it’s about money and more money and Donald Trump said Huawei could run their business in the US but that he wants them to pay his government a few billion dollars first – of course, Huawei declined and there lies its woes.

But none of this is new and the weakest component of security is the human factor and the reason classification needs invasive and extremely thorough examination by the security services, and for employees to have access – sex, money and extortion are the age-old enablers, and because useful idiots can be bribed.

But then once the UK 5G network is installed, it will be run by British personnel and not Chinese personnel. So, does that mean that all British engineers will not know where the data is being sent?

It sounds like James Bond stuff to me! Well, this is fantasy land but on the other hand, we do have some fairly serviceable idiots here as well – mind you, Christopher Steele is a bit of a fiction writer for hire.

And this has got to be the machinations of someone attempting to destroy and divide the United Kingdom – has China bought the BBC too?

At the end of the day, China is all about business but other nations want our soul and there’s nothing unusual about these revelations – this is simply basic recruitment tactics of industry.

However, these useful idiots seem to be a motif at the moment, and these people are often utilised by controlling or sociopathic people in domestic situations to slander, malign and destroy, but be observant and on the lookout peoples, they roam amongst us, hapless and uncomprehending but potentially extremely dangerous.

And we should be frightened because if it’s not the Chinese that is attacking us, it’s the US or the Russians – it looks like foreign governments are attacking us, but we’re also attacking them and it’s spycraft as usual.

Everybody is spying on everyone and has been since before computers were connected to networks. The only difference is that US spies are possibly the best ones in the world, getting in and out without being noticed most of the time.

Hacking around the world are overall American hackers who simply exceed those from other countries. They were just more innovative, they learned fast and pushed the boundaries of what could be done.

Hackers from other countries were exceptional at learning precisely what was taught to them but were not as great at discovering new ways to do something or at putting previous lessons together to create a new attack chain.

That said, hackers from many other nations also excelled, the United Kingdom, Poland and Bulgaria, to name three. Hackers from Bulgaria were particularly skilled at writing malware, as were Russian hackers, surprise, surprise.

But more important was the way Russian hackers looked at hacking as a business, because the Russians are great at combining legitimate business models and frameworks with malware writing and hacking.

They further excel at cracking and using encryption, presumably for the same reason.

Israel is a unique case, not only does it have exceptional hackers, but they’re apparently the best in the world at defence, and it’s no wonder that many if not most of the best defence concepts and companies have come out of Israel.

And when you look at the most current hacking innovations, there are only a few a year, everyone else is mimicking, and they most usually start with American hackers. Not the latest malware or hacking kit, we’re talking about who’s cooking up ideas that haven’t been considered before and lead in a completely new direction.

Over the course of 20 years of hacking history, the United States leads in discovery by a mile. This is probably due to various factors. One, the United States had led the computer revolution since shortly after it began, that is, after Alan Turing.

The United States began the mainframe and personal computer revolutions with some level of computer knowledge, along with a standard of living that allows access to a computer, which is now part of our culture.

But the true difference is the American entrepreneurial spirit, which wouldn’t take no for an answer because we’re taught to challenge everything, our parents, our bosses and our politicians.

This ultra-competitive behaviour carries over to hacking because Americans are always looking for a better way to do something, including breaking into areas electronically, although that’s not saying that other countries don’t have great hackers or come up with innovative hacking techniques, but if you’re looking for clever new lines of attack, you’d be remiss if you didn’t check out the US hacker scene first.

This isn’t conclusive, but the United States probably has the biggest offensive cyber capability in the world, and seemingly we have at least tens of thousands of hackers working for the US government and billions of dollars are spent on offensive hacking.

The most news you hear about in the United States is hacking linked to the National Security Agency (NSA), and in numerous leaked documents, you’ll discover a treasure trove of clever hacking tools.

There are catalogues from which spies can pick the latest gadget guaranteed to gain unrestricted, almost undetectable access – this is hacking innovation at its most extreme.

Outside the nefarious slip, you’ll seemingly never learn about a country, company, or person who’s been hacked by the US government, and if you think about it, billions are being spent on state-sponsored hacking, which apart from one NSA whistleblower’s disclosures, are practically never discovered or reported.

This is pretty scary and an unwarranted intrusion which is apparently happening millions of times a day, led by different parties throughout the world, but let’s quit pointing fingers and seeking to alarm people because one country is found spying on another country.

It’s being done by all sides, and in all probability, the United States is doing more of it better than anyone.

NHS Chief Says Coronavirus Vaccine Could Happen This Year

A coronavirus vaccine could be coming later this year, but the NHS Chief executive said that more could be done.

A vaccine could be available between September and December this year, but even if it does, there are some practical questions about getting it delivered, because, to deliver it, tens of thousands of NHS workers will need to be trained up.

There are further issues about how it will be given, by one dose or two, and if it will be safe to administer alongside the flu vaccine, and it’s also been called for people to get the flu vaccine as a way to reduce pressure on the health care system.

It came as it was reported that the Government was near to agreeing a £500 million contract with Glaxo Smith Kline and Sanofi to provide 60 million doses of their coronavirus vaccine if it proves medically significant.

Ministers are looking to purchase the vaccine from the pharmaceutical giants, should it work in human trials, which are due to start in September and during an appearance on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show, Sir Simon Stevens also established that the Government would roll out a new COVID recovery service within the NHS.

It will be designed to defeat the long term repercussions of coronavirus on a patients well-being, and Sir Simon said the NHS had to adjust to the virus and its impact being around for years.

The scheme will see those who suffered from the virus get a health check-up, and up to 12 weeks of video support, including pre-recorded physiotherapy sessions, and it was established that the NHS was planning for a second wave of the virus this winter, especially if it is co-existent with the flu.

And Sir Simon stated that plans to sufficiently finance the UK’s social care system needed to be in position inside a year, and he said that the coronavirus pandemic had reflected a pretty harsh spotlight on the flexibility of the social care system.

He stated that if any good is to come from this, it was his belief, that they must use this to resolve once and for all to actually properly resource and reform the way in which social care works in this country.

The truth is that following at least two decades of talking about it, we don’t have a fair and properly resourced adult social care system with a decent set of workforce supports, and Sir Simon added that he was hoping that by the time they’re sitting down this time next year on the 73rd birthday of the NHS that they’ve actually, as a country, been able to decisively answer the question of how they’re going to finance and afford high-quality social care.

But social care is something the Conservative government see as getting, nothing from, payout only, that’s why they’ve dodged all responsibility to it for over a decade. However, the government are now making preparations for 60 million jabs, that must be a good thing, right?

The problem is, it’s not been exactly encouraging, and I’m sure people are absolutely fed up of hearing, maybe, will be, should be this year, and because of this, how can anyone be sure of anything right now?

And why are they training up NHS staff when they’re skilled enough to give all other vaccines, so why is this one so different? And some people can’t have the flu vaccine because they’re allergic to it, so should we be slightly concerned if this COVID vaccine is the same?

And is there actually going to be a vaccine so easily accessible, so quickly? Vaccines usually take years to develop and test. So, perhaps we shouldn’t be getting our hopes up.

Seven Times Boris Johnson Dramatically Changed

Boris Johnson has repeatedly maintained he’s proud of his record in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic but the last few months have witnessed a succession of U-turns, variations of heart and shifts in the science as COVID 19 killed more than 50,000 people in the United Kingdom.

No Prime Minister could have dealt with an unprecedented disease with utter perfection, but even so, there’s been plenty of moments when the government’s strategy came under examination and buckled under the stress.

They range from cold, hard scientific matters like testing and facing coverings to the political heartstrings of free school meals and the bereaved.

England’s contact tracing app was created as a necessary means to tell if you’ve been exposed to someone with COVID 19, even if you don’t know them. But it’s gone from an NHS app that would be a key part of the system by mid-May to an Apple and Google run software that will be the cherry on top by winter.

The app was designed as a component of the NHS Test and Trace, which also uses about 25,000 human contact tracers to ask anyone with COVID 19 contact to isolate.

On April 28, the Prime Ministers official spokesperson said the app would be an important part of the surveillance programme going forward. But that date started to shift to the end of May, then the coming weeks following that, and then winter, as the abandoned app-only picked up contacts with iPhones 4 per cent of the time.

By the time Boris Johnson said this on May 20, it was already apparent his promise didn’t include the app and he said that they had increased confidence that they would have a test, track and trace operation that would be world-beating and in place by 1 June.

Ministers then attempted to downplay the app, with Matt Hancock stating it was the cherry on the cake.

On June 18, the Government then discarded the system behind the NHS coronavirus app and put all its energies into developing an app based on Google and Apple’s built-in system.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock maintained he’d always backed both horses. Yet a spokesperson for his department told on May 17 that there was no alternative app and in May, Boris Johnson U turned and dropped the Immigration Health Surcharge on migrants who come to work in the NHS or care homes.

That’s a yearly £400 charge, increasing to £624 in October, paid by foreign nationals to cover the cost of their access to the NHS.

Less than 24 hours after backing the unpopular scheme at Prime Minister’s Questions, he stated that those coming into the United Kingdom to work in the health and care service would be excluded.

In June, Boris Johnson promised to repay any NHS and care workers who had been forced to pay the surcharge, backdated to the date of his decision, but when that would happen was still unclear.

The Prime Minister said he was going to cut the fee for relevant staff as quickly as possible and that bereaved families of NHS cleaners who die of coronavirus will be permitted to stay in the United Kingdom, as part of a major U-turn announced in May.

NHS porters, cleaners and social care workers were not incorporated in the Home Office scheme granting families of health workers unlimited permission to remain in the United Kingdom if they die of coronavirus.

And at the daily press briefing, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden stated the policy was under investigation, and soon after the briefing concluded, the Home Office announced the decision had been changed.

The scheme will presently be accessible to families of all NHS support workers, including cleaners and porters, as well as social care workers. The Home Office further established the families of contract workers operating in NHS hospitals would also be eligible.

Possibly the Prime Minister’s biggest U-turn has come not at the hands of the Labour Party, or even from his own backbenchers, but from a Premier League footballer, and millions of England’s most disadvantaged children will, for the first time, be able to claim free school meal vouchers over the summer following demands from campaigners and 22-year-old footballer Marcus Rashford.

The Manchester United and England player gained hearts with a touching letter detailing his own upbringing by a single mum, asking the Prime Minister not to let children go hungry.

Marcus Rashford’s demands had been snubbed by No 10, but with tension building amongst parents and campaigners, Boris Johnson dramatically caved at the beginning of June.

Only days preceding No 10 decided to defeat campaigners demands by promising a £63 million pot for councils to support struggling families, but following the footballer’s campaign started to grow, Downing Street caved in.

Parents whose children would normally get means-tested free school meals will get a £90 supermarket voucher to cover the six weeks of summer.

For months Boris Johnson and his medical advisors maintained there was little or no benefit of covering your face to reduce the spread of the coronavirus but the Prime Minister gradually came round to the idea as evidence surfaced proving they had little impact, preventing the wearer transferring COVID 19 onto others.

For the first time on April 30, two months after the first case reached the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson declared that he believed that face-covering would be beneficial, both for epidemiological purposes, but also for giving people assurance that they can go back to work.

Face coverings were later made compulsory on public transport and advised in some contained places, or as part of the one metre plus social distancing rule.

In fairness to the government, the Prime Minister could honestly say his scientific advisors had been cool on face-covering for a long time and even when approved, they stated the effect on the virus was weak, and social distancing and handwashing were still important.

The UK quit extensive community testing and meticulous contact tracing on March 12 after it became apparent the virus was growing beyond control. It was only mentioned months later once capacity was high enough, with care home residents not being routinely tested until mid-April.

On March 12, Boris Johnson claimed that they had a clear strategy that they were working through and that they were moving to the next stage in that plan because it was not just an endeavour to contain the disease as far as possible, but to prevent its spread and thereby decrease the suffering.

But on May 27 the Prime Minister revealed that they did have a test, track and trace operation but sadly they didn’t have the capacity in Public Health England and that he believed in the harsh reality that this country didn’t learn the lessons of Sars and Mers and they didn’t have a test operation available to go on the scale that they needed.

At the time community testing was abandoned and Jenny Harries, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England insisted it wasn’t a suitable mechanism as they went forward but she too, later accepted the country would have taken a different route if more tests were available.

She then continued that if they had the unlimited capacity and the continuing support beyond that, then they possibly would have chosen a somewhat different path.

So, there’s going to be billions of pounds to get Britain booming and the Prime Minister said he’s a fit as a Butcher’s dog and is helping with nappies and night feeds as he announced his revival strategy.

What an utter embarrassment to millions of people across the country with thousands of people dying from the virus and this clown of a Prime Minister is seen doing press-ups and likening himself to a tin of dog meat.

Billions of unprecedented borrowing with the Bank of England electronically generating another £200 billion – once it was called the Magic Money Tree which never existed and Boris Johnson proceeds to be an embarrassment, but it’s what he does best.

And in front of a selected audience, he could draw a laugh and get a response that inflated his high conception of himself – now the audience is the country, even the world and they laugh for a completely different reason.

Austerity isn’t caused by the people, it’s caused by government cutbacks and we were never this poverty-stricken before David Cameron’s government began this austerity.

Boris Johnson has acid for blood and is a floating reprobate of a person and so horribly bitter and twisted.

Boris Johnson is a one-trick pony who lacks even one trick, and his speciality was playing to an elite audience as if his life was one long after-dinner speech. As far as being Leader of any country, he’s clearly unfit for purpose and I’m sure the Tory party will themselves soon be ditching him, or we could just replace the Tory party.

And when Brexit is over he will be replaced just as brutally as Margaret Thatcher or Theresa May – then when Brexit becomes an economic nightmare it will be reversed, and I’m sure there are numerous people who are now bored to death by it.

And COVID 19 is only part of the dilemma because the entire capitalist structure is disintegrating into the bargain, and with or without COVID 19 there’s no going back to normal and it will just be a different form of capitalism.

The point is our government is greedy, nefarious and self-serving and it runs on the revolving door principle, in that whatever seems attractive and grabs the headlines is the policy for that day.

A totally unfit, inadequate and destructive government led by a clown who has been bought and paid for by developers, hedge fund managers and right-wing media magnates and people are lashing out at this inefficient government, sometimes in irrational ways and this can only go three ways, violence, repression or revolution and only time will tell I guess.

Evidently, no rational person would want Labour to run this country, hence why people have repudiated them time and again, but it was Labour who founded the NHS and the welfare state, which is the envy of the world, yet both were created by Labour and both are being systematically destroyed every time we have a conservative government.

And when the Tories get their wish and eventually stop both, I hope people have plenty of savings if they find themselves out of work or retire, and let’s hope they never get sick.

The preponderance of people in this country don’t want a revolution but it’s getting there, and what if the Tories have got it wrong, will Boris Johnson still be proud of his achievements?

But one thing is for sure, Boris Johnson isn’t restructuring stuff for the sake of it, pretending he’s busy when there are decisions to be made, and there should be legislation restricting politicians from lying.

And all political decisions are made for the advantage of the bosses, not the workers, and furlough was about keeping the lower classes ready to go back to the grind to create surplus value.

It wasn’t for the advantage of the workers, and we’ve just furloughed the bosses again to the tune of £100 billion, guess who will be sweetening that?

COVID 19 was rife in the United Kingdom and there’s no possible way to tell if someone caught it here, abroad or from someone who travelled to here from abroad, but if there’s any truth in the assertion that the virus came from abroad then it’s clearly Boris Johnson’s fault for not securing our borders sooner.

These might be unprecedented times but the Tories are making decisions that are costing lives, and political decisions that are putting profit before people, and the Prime Minister runs a revolving door government – what day is it? What sounds like a good blurb? Let’s run it up the pole and it’s a grand bit of blue sky thinking et cetera.

And the old and vulnerable in this country should still have the option to self-isolate and be supported by the community, and it’s pretty obvious immense swathes of the population want to get on with their lives and that’s their choice, but the most vulnerable should still be protected if they’re not happy mingling with the population.

And the shadow cabinet must be members of the Marcel Marceau appreciation society, as they never say a word, but maybe they think that if they stick their heads over the parapet then people will see the dire straits we’re in.

But this has nothing to do with Labour, they stated from the start they would set politics aside and let the government get on with it without interference, and whenever they’ve spoken up it’s been generally in support of the government.

And it’s only right that politics are not brought into this and all opposition parties have remained remarkably quiet. However, we’ve all been appalled by the number of deaths and have had extensive compassion for those who’ve lost loved ones, but it appears that our government don’t seem to have a clue day to day, and are losing the confidence of the populace over their administration of this.

And faced with this unprecedented crisis, the economy should be taken out of the hands of the capitalists and put in the hands of the working class. In this way, we can then rationally organise the economy for our needs, and not the profits of the banks and monopolies.

Boris Johnson is fragmented and disordered in the administration of this pandemic but this article only covers the number of U-turns Boris Johnson has done and sadly not how late his response was to the pandemic, and allowing boarders to remain open even following the belated lockdown.

Along with poor PPE equivalent for NHS workers and the failure to reach their 100K testing target and fibbing about it, yet he’s proud of killing 500,000 people due to his government’s incompetence and ineptitude.

But then what do you expect from Boris Johnson, who’s failed in every position he’s had, and that’s without mentioning his stupidity getting himself infected with COVID 19, and letting the borders to stay open so that people could ramble in from countries currently in a pandemic was an absolute shambolic and dangerous mess.

The establishment, their compatriots in the media, and the right-wing of the Labour party worked to prevent a progressive government coming into leadership, and it was represented as if Jeremy Corbyn had been in control for ten years and not the Tories.

Boris Johnson was the people’s victor – talk about putting lipstick on a pig, and now the truth has come out, and Boris Johnson is a bumbling, working-class hating, lying Tory, and has been all along.

Keir Starmer knew this, but they couldn’t support a government that put the people first.

I don’t believe that any right-minded person could even infer that the government have handled this well. There’s a list of blunders and lagging governance, with the Prime Minister who missed the first 5 COBRA meetings, instead, he ran away to Chequers where he completed his divorce to his now ex-wife.

Then there was the allowance of Liverpool v Athletic Madrid – the allowance of the Cheltenham Festival which both impacted – the unwillingness to secure borders – the refusal to shut pubs until it was evident COVID 19 was widespread in the nation.

The PPE was an utter disaster – the test and trace was a debacle. Then there was the awarding of a contract to ConDems to create an app that failed – the awarding of a test and trace app to Circo – a company with a litany of failures with NHS contracts – the list was infinite.

The exclusion of treatment for people in hospital over a particular age, instead, sending them to care homes which didn’t have the expertise or the PPE to cope and therefore spread the virus.

But the very worst was the allowance of ConDems mate sitting in SAGE meetings – this politicised science and caused countless deaths, Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock should hang their heads in shame and quit.

Of course, nobody is infallible and we don’t expect them to get everything 100 per cent right in this bizarre situation, but Boris Johnson is totally out of his depth and his entire government are winging it day to day, so there’s no surprise there have been so many variations of direction.

And it comes to something when it takes a 22-year-old footballer to tell the government what to do about child poverty and hunger.

The other big problem is that Boris Johnson has stated from the start that he and the government are guided in their decisions by the best scientific advice (SAGE), yet he declines to make that advise public, so how do we know that the government are acting because of that information or in the spirit of it?

And it came out that members of the SAGE committee have said the government was easing lockdown against their advice and seems to be putting the economy before public well-being.

Boris Johnson changes his mind as frequently as he changes his undergarments, so let’s get this right, he’s a nincompoop like his counterpart in the USA, but as long as Boris Johnson runs his fingers through his hair like a mischievous schoolboy he believes he’s okay.

Boris Johnson is a rambling disaster, and he deserves nothing but scorn for what is equivalent to corporate manslaughter.

Leaders lead, they’re not supposed to be led, but our leader has distorted and spun his way through this disaster, and we shouldn’t be praising a government that allows 60,000 people to die through their utter inadequacy.

What I find difficult to accept is that there are people out there who will defend Boris Johnson no matter what he says or does, and even though the Tories have been winging it from the start, they’re actually fighting to stop the second wave by making sure the first wave doesn’t end.

You just can’t make this stuff up, and what comes out of Boris Johnson’s orifice has led straight to failure. He’s a walking time bomb.

He told everyone to go to the beach, what happened? Mass fights and children getting caught up in it. There was a shopping list of stuff that occurred and he’s called our so-called Prime Minister.

He said children couldn’t get the virus but now children are dying because of this virus. He said use your common sense but he didn’t, did he? He caught the virus, and according to scientists, if lockdown had been one week earlier, it could have saved 20,000 lives, but blundering Boris didn’t do that.

It would make a difference if the squabbling voters could make their minds up, for any issue they care to raise, they’re normally split into mutually opposing camps. But then that’s the nature of the beast – human beings for you, but to be honest, there’s no such thing as a will of the people, that’s all a myth.

The politician’s role is to make sense of these conflicting opinions and to do what they believe is most desirable for the nation as a whole, knowing that what they’re doing is going to anger a whole bunch of people.

A Member of Parliament has three duties – the first being able to act in the national interest. The second is they’re chosen by their constituents, so they must express their opinions – so an MP is their constituencies representative in parliament.

Finally, they represent a political party but anything they do in regard to that must be subordinate to the first two.

But are you guys actually going to defend a Prime Minister who’s a complete and utter baffoon? Who has the blood of over 50K people that needlessly died because of his lack of leadership, lack of knowledge and lack of not knowing what the hell to do in such distressing circumstances?

You all seem to want to show sympathy towards a fool who said that he was putting a protective ring around our care homes, and you want to support a so-called Prime Minister who believes that sending poor innocent children back to school when the rest of the United Kingdom is dropping like houseflies is okay.

You want to support this nincompoop for killing other people’s families, Uncle’s, Auntie’s, brother’s, sisters, mums, dad’s, cousins and newborn babies, the list is infinite, and on top of that, this complete clown who himself had the virus told everyone to use common sense, well, Boris, you may need to use it first.

Boris Johnson is disregarding matters concerning the COVID 19 situation in the United Kingdom because he’s only focused on financial interests and following in the tracks of Donald Trump.

Personal profit and personal notoriety rather than the well-being of the less fortunate amongst the domestic population. Sadly, this is what the majority chose when electing the overweight blonde and his disciples to run the country, which is fast falling to that of a poor banana republic, even without bananas to sell.

It’s the medias duty to report, and a leader shouldn’t be influenced by what they read. Leaders lead, they don’t allow themselves to be coerced, and scientific proof is not something that Boris Johnson can profess to have followed.

Remember all the calls for a lockdown that began too late? They were scientific calls.

This man changes his mind a lot but I can’t help thinking it’s because he gets persuaded into it by advisers or coerced into it by his own party, but then he was never a smart man, and the prevailing advice is economically motivated and it’s going way too fast with long Sunday opening hours, what a dumb approach and opening up our borders to holidaymakers is hardly scientifically supported advice.

But then the scientists advise, the government decides and numerous times they’ve openly disagreed with what the government has done, but the most natural thing for a politician to do is to follow the advice which best fits what he wants to do.

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