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Old 11th Sep 2020, 18:36
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racedo
 
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The Govt since election is not so much lurching from crises to crises as driving down a road hitting pothole after pothole with each one bigger than the next.

Brexit is not so much on the horizon as being the horizon, zero planning being done because most businesses are still trying to get grips with returning from Covid lockdown.

Bricks and mortar retail is dead with many pension funds looking at big holes because their previous "safe" property investments are gone, amazon and online retailers booming who pay minimum wage and thousands of delivery drivers on self employed contracts barely making a living wage.

Aviation is dead because no one is travelling yet Govt has zero clue about how to plug the gaps in UK aviation taxation shortfall. Pre Covid to end of March 20 it was heading for £4 billion, this year it will be lucky to be £300 million. UK already highly borrowed but now owes more than Total GDP and that is before any Brexit impact. But lets have another lockdown when we have no clue what is happening and force the media to comply.
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