Showing posts with label pandemic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pandemic. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 July 2021

Scarborough and many other coastal towns succeed with tourism or struggle without tourism

 

Fair weather that encourages people to go out and enjoy what Britain has to offer is not the rule, but the exception. Scarborough like many other coastal towns depend very much on the flow of tourism.

While the mass media and politicians seem to be focused on international travel, lets remind them that there is a country called United Kingdom and that millions of peoples depend on seasonal economies.

Would I want to travel across Britain and get to know Britain? You bet that I would like to see every corner of Britain, but when you look at the cost of public transport (public transport that is subsidized by taxpayers) you understand that for a huge number of Britons travelling across their own country is an impossibility. Whether it is Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat they have had decades in power to ensure the dream of being able to see Britain becomes a reality and they had done very little or nothing to make such dream a reality. They are too busy talking shit about each other and getting involved in campaigns against Britain and against British interests. They are supposed to represent Britain and to stand  up for Britain and they go around undermining Britain and thaks to mass media manipulation and indoctrination many of the culprits keep getting elected. Elected to do what? Promises about a Socialist Paradise that has never existed and will never exist and talk about Value for Money that is translated as Value for Rubbish have destroyed hopes and aspirations for decades if not centuries.

The worst enemy of Britain is  not the Russian Federation nor China nor AlQaeda or Taliban or any other external foe. The worst enemy of Britain are politicians that completely ignore the needs of Britain and walk around promoting their own agendas that have nothing to do with British interests.

Politics in Britain is an absolute shambles. As an example, one of the leaders of the Green Party just resigned 'because she did not agree with her own party policies on transgender issues'. You will struggle to find the link between saving the planet and the sexual agenda. It seems that for the said leader of the Green Party sexuality is more relevant that efforts made to protect the environment.


Tuesday, 6 July 2021

July 19th 2021: time to go back to business as usual?

 

Since images like this were taken, London has moved on and movement in the capital city is almost normal in terms of people going about their business, public transport is getting busier as the number of vehicles on the streets has also been rising.

On July 19th 2021 the country is due to go back to normality without any major restrictions but the issue of Lockdown has been politicized so much that it will continue to be controversial with those who want a full opening and those who talk about caution.

The new Health Secretary Sajid Javid seems to be on the same wavelength with Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak that is totally opposed to any more furlogh schemes as the level of expenditure is hurting the British Treasury after more than 12 months of over-spending to deal with the pandemic and the cost of measures implemented to keep the economy afloat.

Many marching on the streets of Britain have said that 'enough is enough'.

Having seen holes on British highstreets with renowned businesses that are no longer trading it is difficult to believe that normality will be back any time soon. We will also have to be creative when it comes to public transport and fares. Because of Lockdown several franchises had to be temporarily taken over and reduced passenger numbers have also affected branches of services run by the State. Whether this is a temporary setback or a more permanent state of affairs remains to be seen.

And what about shopping habits and working habits for all other businesses that depend of the numbers of people working in offices. Will they ever be able to return to business as usual or will they struggle to get customers back?

At this point in time, July 19th 2021 is still a promising re-start of activities for many and the government has committed itself to a full re-opening. We waited and waited for June 21st 2021 and just days before Lockdown measures were extended. There are almost two weeks to go before July 19th 2021. Could some similar happen once again?  






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

 

While may of us worry about the economic prospects during the pandemic and after the pandemic, Barclays Bank forecasts the biggest economic boom in the United Kingdom 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.  

Since then, the Labour MP has complained that she has suffered torrents of abuse during her political career. When she was asked on radio, pressed for time, she gave a figure from the top of her head because she hadn't actually calculated beforehand how much it would be necessary to recruit Police officers that the Labour Party had been talking about for so long in Parliament and outside Parliament when criticizing Conservative governments past and present.

Policing rallies and demonstrations, enforcing Lockdown meaures and dealing with chaos and disorder while protecting public and private property does not come cheap. Police officers that would normally be carrying out regular duties have to be concentrated in big numbers on the streets to prevent public disorder and to deal with cases of violence when violence unavoidably erupts. Extra hours are piled up and all the monies invested in big deployments, arrests and legal proceedings consume even faster a very tight Police budget. As if the number of rallies and demonstrations we have been dealing with was not enough, the news kids on the block - Extinction Rebellion - are now threatening us with further actions and this time focusing on banking institutions. You can bet that, yet again, sizeable amounts of money will be taken out of the Police budget to prevent disorder and to deal with unavoidable confrontations on the streets. As we come out of the quarentine imposed to deal with a pandemic, and as numbers of peoples walking around rise, spring and summer don't look like seasons of the year that you will be able to enjoy, but more as seasons of the year that you will have to suffer thanks to people who believe that generating chaos and disorder they are promoting a healthier environment.

As new legislation is being introduced to tackle disorder, the very same people whose actions serve to justify the passing of stricter legislation are once again creating chaos on the streets and are now going to be joined by the new kids on the block and by other individuals who couldn't care less about any cause and are only around to engage in disreputable behaviour including violence and destruction of public and private property. As always, policing and clean up operations will be paid for by Joe Public.

Council Tax letters were already sent by local authorities including increases of the fees house owners have to pay at a time when local authorities are under additional financial stress, party because of the pandemic, partly because of expenses that rise year on year. So, less money for Police services and less monies for local services delibered by local authorities and this at a time when the Treasury is struggling with vast amounts of borrowing to deal with the pandemic and to protect peoples' jobs. Furlough schemes are basically state subsidies to support those who have lost their income and to keep those who are still working at work.

Any actions that could undermine the operations of vital financial services are a direct attack against the United Kingdom. Such actions can be said to be carried out to promote a healthier environment, but are the de-facto acts of terrorism at a time when the country is slowly, but surely heading towards relative normality. This is a time when we should be supporting the creation of new jobs. Extinction Rebellion doesn't care about jobs and this is also a way to say that Extinction Rebellion could not care less about millions of families in the United Kingdom that have lost their incomes or are struggling to survive with reduced incomes.
   

Tuesday, 2 March 2021

Covid-19: Back to school, back to work, back to life

Since March 2020, Britain has been on downwards spiral because of its efforts to tackle a pandemic that started very far away from its shores. 

The United Kingdom has witnessed a new level of awareness concerning immigration. The open-doors policy, with little control of who comes in and who goes out, has killed more than a 100 thousand people in the United Kingdom. Thousands upon thousands of British families mourn a loss relatives. In some some families, several members perished.

As the flow of pretend refugees continues, many of them have been found to be infected with viruses that could literally killed them and those they come into contact with. 

For decades, Britain has cared and control the flow of dogs and cats with legal quarantines to prevent illnesses like rabies but, paradoxically, has allowed the free flow of people without the vitally required sanitary controls. Britain, like other countries, has paid a very high price for the policies supported by liberals and left-wingers. Open Doors? In your dreams. No more. From now on, everybody coming to the United Kingdom should be subjected to stringent sanitary controls to ensure that people living the United Kingdom are safe from pests brought in. Will stringent sanitary measures be implemented? Lets see. Very soon Liberals and Left-Wingers will say that stopping illnesses is 'a Human Rights violation'.

The one industry that has been extremely busy in recent months is the industry of funeral parlors and undertakers as more than 100,000 lives were lost to the pandemic brought into Britain from overseas.

Now that there are plans to go back to school, back to work and back to life, lets remember how such a pandemic was possible. It was possible thanks to the Open-Doors policies supported by Liberal and Left-Wingers.
  
We want Britain to become, once again, a buoyant and vibrant economy. We must never forget that the pile of deaths was brought to the United Kingdom by unsuitable immigration policies. Yes, dogs and cats can bring in illnesses, but every years millions of peoples were coming in or passing through British ports of entry without any crucial sanitary controls. 

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.