Thread: Sir Keir’s Kerfuffle
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Old 15-05-2020, 14:00   #250
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Re: Sir Keir Starmer elected as new Labour leader
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
Don't want to go too far off track, but an FT article I read suggested that internal right-wing Conservative Party criticism of Johnson's handling of the crisis will result in Johnson placating the right-wingers by going hard on Brexit. with the economic repercussions hidden by a CV-19 recession.
Economic repercussions! What these measures have guaranteed is that we will have a huge deficit and major problems with the economy with the size of the debt we have to pay back - nothing whatsoever to do with Brexit. Also, the longer this lockdown goes on, the more companies will collapse, taking away jobs forever.

It's a pity this has muddied the waters, because I was looking forward to getting undeniable proof that Brexit was good for the economy. I guess we may now have an uphill struggle to prove that, but I am confident that being outside the EU will help us to build back rather faster than would otherwise have been the case.

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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
I think whichever way you look at it we're amongst the higher end of the death rates so in terms of 'keeping deaths down' it won't be seen as a success unless some dramatic change happens from here on out.
Boris made very clear in the early days that you could only slow down the course of this virus. It cannot be stopped without a vaccine or a total lock down over many months - even years. Somehow, the population seems to be running away with the idea that we are avoiding more deaths altogether. We are not.

Watch what happens in other countries as measures are eased.

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Getting back to the subject of this thread (sorry, Chris, just read your request to get back on topic), I will be very interested in seeing just how supportive he is going to be in working out how to get the country back on its feet. He could play a useful role in getting the co-operation of the teachers in re-opening the schools.
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