Saturday, 17 July 2021
Scarborough and many other coastal towns succeed with tourism or struggle without tourism
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
July 19th 2021: time to go back to business as usual?
Sunday, 4 July 2021
Slow, a Labour authority, went bankrupt
When the Labour Party talks about doing this and doing that, people should ask themselves about how they are going to do it. This is not news. A loophole of £100 million Pound in the finances of the Council in Slow? We are not anti-Labour. We are anti-mismanagement. With a 300 votes the Labour Party managed to keep the seat in Batley and Spen. Has anybody asked about the local authority in Batley and Spen that the Labour Party lost control of?
When you listen to Labour politicians they are all very quick to blame the government because things are not done, but where are the resources to do what they want to do going to come from? Imagine Britain being managed by the Labour Party in the same way that they managed the Council in Slow. It wouldn't be just a case of a Labour authority going backrupt. It would the country as a whole going bankrupt. Have we been here before?
We know that Britain has to go back to work full blast to recover from the consequences of the pandemic and of the measures that had to be implemented to deal with the pandemic.Hopefully, from July 19th 2021 onwards, Britain will be going back to work full blast. Hopefully, as the economy gets back on its feet local authorities will once again start getting the resources that they need not to go bankrupt, but we need sound management of public finances.
So some foreign countries would not allow free transit of British citizens. So what? Have you looked at the state of internal British tourism? If you cannot go abroad, move around Britain. Get to know your own country and support local British tourism keeping and promoting employment in the United Kingdom. I look at pricing when it comes to public transport in Britain. We need to lower down railway travelling fares. We need to lower down airlines travelling fares inside the Unite Kingdom to allow people in Britain to travel more inside Britain and re-activate the economy in Britain to produce the tax monies that we need to help local authorities to deliver services in Britain that people desperately need.
Sunday, 2 May 2021
Covid-19: Barclays Bank forecasts the bigges economic boom in the UK since 1948
The news is extremly encouraging and helped by good weather and the will of the British people to finally come out of the Lockdown period to start spending and enjoying their newly found freedoms might well be the key for more spending, faster turnout of monies spent and an explosion of optimism to get us out of the doom and gloom period to start runnning towards higher rates of exployment and of consumer satisfaction.
This happens when our neibouring EU countries are still in a muddle in what concerns Lockdowns, vaccinations and the number of infections and life losses and adding to this the climate of instability that leads to street protests and confrontation as countries like Germany and France are heading towards General Elections. One can only wonder what will be the outcome of those elections and the political repercussions across the European Union.
Covid-19 and the pandemic are health issues that have quickly turned out to be highly charged political issues in terms of competence of authorities to deal with health crisis and the willingness of elected representatives to pass ever more restrictive and in some case more repressive legislation.
We await the new dates for greater opening of Britain and we await also the outcome of experiments of social mass gatherings to detect the effects concerning the spread of infection.
Tuesday, 6 April 2021
Extinction Rebellion: yet more disruption as if we hadn't had enough disruption
Diane Abbott MP's participation during a LBC radio programme became legendary when having been asked how much money was going to be necessary to increase the number of Police officers she gave a figure that would have been the equivalent of spending £10 per Police officer.
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Covid-19: Back to school, back to work, back to life
Friday, 22 January 2021
From Covid-19 to B117: This could be like the plague that killed 50% of the population of Europe
From Covid-19 to B117. 70 per cent more contagious and more than 30 per cent more deadly. We are flowered. More than 25 per cent of those who recover will die within five months because of the damage done by the virus to vital organs.
Since no country can exist under a permanent Lockdown, financial collapse will follow leading to riots and revolutions that will destroy any democratic form of government.
This is Das Ende. If you live in an area of the world where the pandemic is not an imminent danger coming to Developed World is the equivalent of committing suicide. Refugees and illegal imigrants are effectively migrating to die a most horrible death in the Developed World.
Saturday, 16 January 2021
Covid-19: Siege without end?
With all transport in and out of the country practically blocked, Britain faces what looks like constant crisis and in the meantime the public debt and the private debt keep going up and up. It is just a matter of time for the financial system to be bombarded with defaults generated by lack of economic activity and by the efforts to deal with the pandemic.
Companies - big and small - face the wall. During World War Two, British households were destroyed with bombs. In the Twenty-First Century, British households are being destroyed by a biological agent and this would go on ad infinitum. British authorities have said that there is no end in sight. With of without vaccination, there is no visible end of the tunnel. The virus is not just mutating in the United Kingdom. New strains have been arriving from places as far as Brazil and the possibility of a strain that cannot be tackled with today's vaccines must not be discarded.
In an effort to deal with the present pandemic, thousands upon thousands are not being treated for other diseases. This is the new Battle of Britain. This is not something that can be solved within weeks or months. We must prepare ourselves for a siege that could last several years.
On another issue - the extent of the damage done to the British economy by the measures implemented to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic is incalculable. In 2008, the financial sector had to be rescued, but the economy itself was working full blast. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, many areas of the British economy have come to a hault, many are being subsidized and others have simply evaporated thus ceasing to produce tax revenues for the British Treasury. There is little talk about balancing the budget because at this point in time balancing the budget is an impossibility.





