Johnson and a new deal

Marina Hyde is brilliant.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/30/conservatives-cowboy-builders-boris-johnson

I wonder if it is Tory donors who will be getting all these new building contracts.

As a bit of light relief I'm sure some of you will enjoy Marina Hyde's take on the spaffer's speech this morning:

“We will double down on levelling up … We will invest … to fuel the animal spirits … We will not just bounce back, we will bounce forward.” Thus gibbered Boris Johnson this morning, sounding exactly like Franklin D Roosevelt shortly after the latter’s massive intracerebral haemorrhage...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/30/conservatives-cowboy-builders-boris-johnson

Who writes these inane speeches?

Oooh Mamie Xpost

Davidhs

If unemployment really does reach anything like 30% usefull work must be found, there are plenty of schools, hospitals and other infrastructure that need putting right. Not to mention inner city’s that need regenerating, this is going to be a big change in society.

Everyone will have to accept whatever work they are offered and that it is in the national interest, this is a big change and there will be some who will resist.

Some honesty is needed....for some posters on GN whatever either the Conservative Party or Boris Johnson did or said, it would always be dissed roundly.
I agree Davidhs and anything that will help the job market sounds good to me.

They're intended to sound inane - to cover up the nastiness of the real agenda.

I think you would need a heart of stone not to realise that many many families are going to need extra support as we emerge from lockdown .

Investing in infrastructure is a start. Apparently the Government is also investing in more apprenticeships which can only be a good thing surely?

Janpt

growstuff and so do we [have brains]. Difference is we use them.

Prove it, janpt

Economist on BBC.

Dr. Linda Yueh said that we will need to plough between 5-7% of GDP into the economy in order to save our country. That is the sort of level that Roosevelt spent.

Johnson has a hell of a way to go.

That's not true lemongrove. I'm sure if I really thought hard, I could think of something good the Tories have done.

Got it! They increased Local Housing Allowance.

GG13 I like the sound of increasing apprenticeships.?

trashier, you are on the right track there. First thing that came into my head when I heard it being announced. Yet more opportunities for those who have, to have even more. And no doubt at the taxpayers' expense eventually.
Grandad43, Blair and Brown put money into the NHS and schools and transformed both services during their time in office. I was both a teacher and inspector in London during those times and saw, year by year in my inspections, vast improvements in schools with both buildings and resources. You may not like how they funded it but the children benefited greatly from it - e.g. IT rooms with a full complement of up to date computers etc.

lemongrove

GG13 I like the sound of increasing apprenticeships.?

Don’t we all

I can think of something, too. They made it mandatory that children should be taught to read using structured synthetic phonics.

Apart from that, though.....

MaizieD I don't need to prove anything to you. I have already proved that I chose the winning party. It's time you all faced the facts.

Whitewavemark2

lemongrove

GG13 I like the sound of increasing apprenticeships.?

Don’t we all

Well......that’s a good start.?

Nothing new and not a deal. But what would you expect from the Vote Leave No Deal Party?

Choosing the winning party means absolutely zilch when it's the party that's bent on destroying the UK.

I really meant, post something intelligent...

Destroying the UK? Have you eaten a magic mushroom omelette?

Why is it that left wingers, apart from Grandad, are so flipping rude all the time on a personal level, making normal conversation virtually impossible?!

No lemon. I leave delusion to the Brexiters.

Grandad1943

As a person who has always supported strong left-wing social policies, I will be overjoyed if such strategies come about to alleviate the worst employment effects of the Covid-19 crisis.

If those economic strategies and spending come from a Tory administration, so be it, I will still be overjoyed.

After all, Britain never did witness such policies being brought forward during the twelve years of the Blair administration. Therefore as a true left-wing socialist, I will gratefully accept such socialist actions from whatever political source they may emerge from.

Hear hear Grandad1943 ??????

Back to the New Deal. FDR's spending included large sums on armaments which I trust Johnson doesn't have plans to do. In 2019 the US spent 732 billion dollars whilst the UK spent 48.7 billion dollars.

Cummings seems to be very good with numbers. So many new plans get announced it's difficult to keep track. I suspect that some fall by the wayside without us noticing.

“Who writes these inane speeches?“

Nobody does he ad libs the whole time, I thought today’s effort was the worst yet.

GrannyGravy13

I think you would need a heart of stone not to realise that many many families are going to need extra support as we emerge from lockdown .

Investing in infrastructure is a start. Apparently the Government is also investing in more apprenticeships which can only be a good thing surely?

That will be interesting then as they have had little success with apprenticeships so far and … the government hasn't invested in them. They have extracted a levy from companies. If companies take people on as apprenticeships they can draw down on this to pay for the training. If they don't take on an apprentice and use the training available then the government takes a sliver of that years levy. The next year it takes another sliver and so on. It is in the governments interest that the companies don't take on/train apprentices.

It would make sense if it went on to provide training for companies to small to pay the levy but the government has been grinding Further Education Colleges into the ground for the last 10 years.