With enough vision, the furlough scheme could have become a lifeboat for industry

that Berlin has maintained through thick and thin since 1924 always comes to prominence in a major crisis, but it is in place to cope with a mini-crisis as much as a major one.

Sunak happy to loosen the purse strings to value of 37bn to assorted cronies and bagmen on a test and trace system that doesn't and never did work and massive amounts to cronies for supply to nhs of pipe, respirators etc that were not fit for purpose or even worked. Stinks

So, the taxpayer already subsidises businesses through the benefits system, by topping up, and therefore perpetuating the low wage economy. And now the hand wringing wokesters want us to pay the wages that are actually paid by businesses? Let's go all the way and outlaw wages ...

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