LEVELLING-UP; high-skill, high-wage economy; build back better; Covid virus, not Brexit, causing supply and inflation problems; fuel prices a world problem, not just UK. The press, television and social media repeat ad nauseum these nebulous soundbites. Add “we have the best vaccine programme in the world” and people start believing that everything is under control to make “Britain Great” again.
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Mrs Thatcher promoted the “high skill, high wage” mantra in 1980. What happened? Deregulation of financial and professional services, which created hundreds of billionaires and multi-millionaires (investing their money in tax havens) hugely increasing the income gap between rich and poor, leading eventually to the disasters of 2008 and the growth of food banks.
Prime Minister Johnson answers all questions with these soundbites but who is he fooling? Most people can see that he hasn’t a clue what they mean or what the consequences may be.
Mike Underwood
Linlithgow
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