Tuesday 23 November 2021

IS IT JOHNSON OR IS IT THE GREAT RESET?

 If there is a problem, is it Boris? Or is it his in-tray?

 This is supposedly the age of the great reset, the end of the modern world as we knew it. The issues Johnson must manage are not in the manifesto because the manifesto is hardly relevent. Instead, far more sinister existential issues have emerged.

Look at what won Johnson his 80 seat majority on and ask how relevent or priority are these commitments today, has he really broken his promises or have they been submerged,  overtaken, in The Great Reset?


THE MANIFESTO

*Health - up NHS spending from £181b (£50 a week for every one of us) to £215b (£60), build 40 hospitals over 10 years, recruit 50,000 nurses and enough GPS to offer 50m more appointments, sort out Social Care once and for all.


*Environment - insulate the built environment £9b, build offshore wind farms, end plastic waste, I don't recall any  controversies around COP or Greta.


*Brexit - leave the EU and get new Trade Agreement with EU,  legislate for workers’ rights, environmental protections and consumer rights, replace CAP with a system based on “public money for public goods”, new office for environmental protection.I  don't recall any  controversies around fishing or NIP trade and customs.


*Immigration - Australian-style points-based immigration system,  immigrants must contribute to the NHS and must pay in first to receive their benefits, NHS Visa to fast track entry for qualified  who speak good English, seek out“leaders in their field” to come  and work in the UK.


*Education and early years - Increase spending on schools to level up, support school heads and teachers on discipline,  more “alternative provision” schools for  excluded children, “arts premium” funding, raise teachers’ starting salaries to £30,000., better child care system and affordable childcare.


*Economy and Skills - fund operations from taxation, but borrow to invest in infrastructure, public debt to be lower than last parliament, public sector net investment not to exceed 3% of GDP and  adjust change programs if debt interest  exceeds 6% of revenue, priority to the environment in the next budget,  £3bn skills fund for education and training.


*Tax, pay and benefits - raise  NI threshold to £9,500 and ultimately to £12,500, respect the triple lock”, no increase in income tax, NI or VAT, a new deal for regenerating towns, continue the rollout of universal credit itwh psecial attention for the most vulnerable.

THE RESET


The great warming of our planet (COP26_V.2).


The great replacement of our civilisation, from without (how to defend our borders from survival migrations, from cyber attack, from The Virus Wars) and within (from Woke inclusivity, the Sharia takeover).


The great and global UK comeback (to redirect our trade flows, to link the anglo-saxon world in defence against the Middle Kingdom).


CONCLUSION

These must be the most complex threats this country, the world, has ever faced imo. They arrive like hand grenades and Boris is expected to find all the pins by Christmas. 
These are the very dark cloud banks through which must shine a PM's usual manifesto commitments - are Johnson's promises (above) broken? Or are they out of date?

No wonder there are calls for World Government, a USSWorld of 200 states. Seems unlikely to work.

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