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There's Nothing New About Boris' New Deal | The Backbencher
The penny hasn’t dropped for many that we are about to go over the edge of a very steep financial cliff. Figures of a 2.2% contraction in the economy in the first quarter followed by early figures of a 20.4% drop in April alone betray a reality that says the UK is economically dropping like a stone. Of those many, the few who really shouldn’t be there amongst them are the Members of the Government themselves.
Piecemeal solutions to universal problems only make things worse:
Right now, the Events & Meetings industry is fighting to survive. A sector worth £31.2 Billion to the UK economy, employing more than 700,000 people is on its knees. It has been forced to sit back and watch as allied industries have been green lighted to open on 4th July, knowing they have been pinned back by little more than descriptive words and collective terms. They are not alone.
Corruption in Planning isn't just about personal financial gain | The Backbencher
Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government Robert Jenrick has been skewered by his involvement in a local planning case in London that circumstances suggest benefitted a Tory donor. A debate has flared up over the role that Jenrick has played. But beyond the smokescreen that his involvement has provided for the PM, questions have been raised by journalists and politicians alike over the Minister’s interference in a local policy decision.
Only a new political movement will make sense of the mess that the UK is now in
Rarely does one individual have the platform and access to the eyes and ears of the Public and then use it to speak the truth in the way that Lord Sumption did so in his piece for this Week’s Mail on Sunday. In an evisceratingly honest analysis of a kind you are unlikely to ever receive from the new generation of Judges, readers are treated to a brutal overview of the root cause of the problems we have in Government today.
The False Floor Economy: When will it fall through?
These are strange times. We know that things are not the same as they used to be. Our lives are being governed by a set of rules that seem to be changeable at political whim. We see the rising numbers of redundancies reaching out from our TV screens and know from conversations that many businesses are already struggling and looking ahead hopefully whilst suspecting that they will go bust. Yet life continues and even seems to be returning to something like normality before the Lockdown began.
The Need for Free Meals is Something this Government will never understand
The Government U-Turn on providing Free School Meals during the Summer is one that only a different set of politicians could have avoided. Yes, we have seen Boris led once again by powers outside of his control. But where the Labour Party is concerned, they have also spent many years in power too, never once taking the opportunity to extend provision beyond the end of School Terms.
Welcome to the deadly age of Groupthink where groups and 'leaders' aren't thinking at all | The Backbencher
Whilst none of the usual suspects have produced work that reflects this from the US, the chances are that when they do, it will show that there has also been a giant leap to the left in political direction since George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis Police. Polling that has suggested that Keir Starmer is already doing as well as the early days of Blair may well be the reflection of this shift without those same questions being asked.
Trashing historic statues is part of a hypocrisy that risks repeating the same mistakes again
Adam Tugwell June 8, 2020 The vandalism during protests in London and Bristol over the weekend has highlighted a worrying trend for people to attempt to remove anything from view that they find unpalatable – without any regard for the real cost of doing so. Whilst this vogue appears new to many, it has been in its ascendency for a good time. It hinges on blame culture and the overindulgence of the personal slight.
Do businesses make staff redundant now or delay using furlough money until October?
Adam Tugwell June 5, 2020 The Financial Measures that the Government implemented as a follow up to the Lockdown are a piecemeal response to a universal problem. Even now, organisations such as Forgotten Ltd are fighting to highlight for a response from the Treasury over the lack of provision for Directors of Ltd Companies forced to stop or severely reduce trading, losing their incomes as a result. They are not alone.
What will the cost of the Lockdown be for our kids?
Adam Tugwell June 1, 2020 As the ties loosen, shops open, horse racing returns and we dare to hope that the pubs will be open before the end of June, the questions that have been troubling many for the duration of the Lockdown are finally finding their way into the news. It is troubling that only after 9 weeks of the Lockdown have senior Tories recognised openly that there may have been a related increase in abuse for children vulnerable in their own homes.
China: The war we must win without ever fighting
Adam Tugwell May 31, 2020 If speculators could bet on future world events like they play stocks and shares, there is little doubt there would be more focus on the dick swinging and pumping rhetoric against China that has been underway since before the Covid-19 Pandemic began. That the origins of Coronavirus has given the likes of Donald Trump an excuse to point the finger at the Chinese and use it as a call to action for all the usual suspects is clear.
The NHS Test & Trace Service: The only certainty is the loss of freedom
Adam Tugwell May 29, 2020 The much heralded NHS Track and Trace Service apparently came into service on Thursday. But what help to you and I can it really be? Throughout the Lockdown, the Government and the Police have sought to encourage friends, families and neighbours to dob each other in. The creation of the Track and Trace Service takes that further and fully establishes the UKs new social police service. We have so far lost 9 weeks of our freedom to the Government’s Coronavirus response.
The War on Social Media: Is Trump the biggest Social Justice Warrior of them all?
Adam Tugwell May 28, 2020 Fake news is a phrase that we have come to associate with Donald Trump in the same way that we do a machine that Hoovers with Dyson. I’ll bet you can hear him saying it right now. With the news that Trump is about to take the Social Media Companies to task – now that Twitter has created a button to flag fake news, the threat that the President of the United States could pull the rug from under the new media age is something that should concern us all.
Cummings Statement: The elephants in the room and missed questions about the validity of the Lockdown
Adam Tugwell May 25, 2020 After a delay that brought new meaning to the term ‘a pregnant pause’, Dominic Cummings rolled into view over half an hour late to deliver a Statement that had basically put the UK on pause. In a diatribe that raised possibly more questions than it could ever answer, such as the 30-mile drive with his family to check out that he was fit to drive, we witnessed a very different side to the Prime Ministers head honcho.
Keir Starmer will not be the man for all seasons that we now so desperately need
Adam Tugwell May 14, 2020 When Jeremy Corbyn was Labour Leader, Boris looked World class. That, for Boris, is the only relevant comparison that we have, becuase he and Keir Starmer are two different sides of the same damaged political coin. With Boris star waning quickly indeed, a new Labour Leader who looks prepared, clinical and unlikely to lose his calm whilst jousting with the Prime Minister at the Despatch Box seems a reassuring sight indeed. But it isn’t the case.
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