EU playing GAMES over EU/UK Deal - Update 1 - Transitional Talks

Guardian: Reports " UK-EU trade deal with tariffs impossible in six months, say diplomats..EU officials dismiss Michael Gove’s suggestion deal could be done without longer transition  "

Lets Get Real:

The HARD REMAINERS within the EU and the Guardian will never give up is trying to shackle the UK to the EU.  The UK Government has been very firm, its our way or the highway.  The Guardian/BBC EVEN The Times will use anything to stick the UK with the EU.  The latest suggestion that is that due to COVID - 19 the UK should ask for an extension of two years for the transition talks, this is a hoax, they EU will give way once it sees or smells the coffee that Boris is no PM May, has set a deadline and will not extend it, time for the HARD REMAINERS and the EU to grow up.

The UK faces a MAJOR RECESSION - COVID - 19 Update - Health/Economy

BBC News: Reports " The chancellor has said it is "very likely" the UK is in a "significant recession", as figures show the economy contracting at the fastest pace since the financial crisis.  "

Lets Get Real:

Let's face it, the UK faces a MAJOR ECONOMIC hit from COVID - 19, the death rate is now over thirty thousand, it could really be over forty thousand by now, the UK Government is taking a RISK, it has to get the workforce back to work, it can not afford to pay for the wages of workers through OUT the UK.   The Governments in Wales and Scotland do not have to worry about that, it will be the English taxpayer o teh whole that will have to bail out the Government, this will be done by tax hikes and austerity.   The ONLY silver lining with COVID - 19 is that most of the World is in lockdown, thus the Brexit talks can fail, how much worse can it get really.  Politics sometimes gives you a bad hand, the Government has gotten the worse, let's hope they know what they are doing. 

Jobs and COVID - 19 - Update 1 - Health

BBC News: Reports " The UK scheme to pay wages of workers on leave because of coronavirus will be extended to October, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.  "

Lets Get Real:

The Chancellor has to be careful, bosses and the workforce should not get settled with the idea that the Government pays the wages of workers, while the bosses get away with just paying 20% if they want too.   The Government in August and September should start to phase out the furlough scheme, the Government cannot afford it long term.   The UK will have to live with having COVID - 19 in our mists for a long time, in less a vaccine can be found in the very near future.  If business leaders and trade unions are happy with the news, then there must be something wrong, the UK can not turn in to the USSR or North Korea.  There will be a COLD DAY when economic reality has to bite, and bite hard, than means getting the UK workforce off their backsides and back to work, that means public transport going at 100%.  That day is coming, and the British public better get around to accepting that reality. 

Are we seeing the END of our LOCAL - Pubs? - COVID - 19 - Update 3 - Health

Daily Mail: Reports " Pubs and restaurants must stay closed for another two months - but Boris Johnson offers 'glimmer of hope' saying hospitality industry could reopen in July "

Lets Get Real:

IF nothing else the COVID - 19 crisis has saved the livers of millions of British citizens, they will not have had a drink in months, of course that all depends on them not getting beer from the super market.  Before the lockdown this blog made sure it had enough Buds to last for the duration, that is two bottles ever Saturday in till the we are allowed to go out again and enjoy life.  The preventing of  a British Citizen from going to the pub is a disaster for the community, it allows people to blow off steam, complain about the Government etc.    Also let's look at the economy, a lot of pubs will be forced to close, they will not have the resources of the big chains.  There should be peaceful demos in London, WE WANT OUR PUBS BACK!!.

COVID - 19 - Update 2 - Health

Sky News: Reports " Some restrictions lifted, but rule-breakers could now face bigger fines...The PM says people are encouraged to "take more and even unlimited amounts" of exercise, provided they maintain social distancing.  "

Lets Get Real:

The PM will be under pressure in about three weeks to open up the economy or face there being no economy to go back too and millions of people out of work.   The UK Treasury can not afford to pay 80% of the wages of workers all around the UK.  Even if Scotland and Wales refuse to budge the PM to overrule them and revoke their powers in this area.  The UK economy has to get going otherwise the Great Depression of the 1930s will look like happy hour for the UK.   The British workers can not just sit on his backside and be depressed, that does not help anyone.  It is matter of thinking what Churchill would do, he would take the fight to the disease, get the people BACK TO WORK.  There is not endless time. 

PM Boris is trying the impossible, keeping the UK healthy and getting the Economy moving - Covid - 19 Update - Health

BBC News: Reports " Boris Johnson has unveiled a "conditional plan" to reopen society, allowing people in England to spend more time outdoors from Wednesday.  "

Lets Get Real:

The PM has a problem, his backbenches see the images of the Great Depression coming back, and they want to see the economy going, while the hack politicians in Scotland and Wales want the English tax payer to carry on paying for their employees to get wages and sit on their backsides and worry.   The PM has been very cautious, the up - lifting of the lockdown was conditional on the Rate, that being the number of infections that can happen in the community.  The Labour Party under its new effective leader see a weakness, thus expect them to be become more political.  One has to say the PM did not look great, the eyes gave the impression that he has not fully recovered from his close shave with COVID - 19.   One the whole a  good speech, the big decisions will happen in three weeks time, there is the argument ( by some ) that the Government should have taken no action, and let the virus burn itself out, as was the case with the Spanish flu in 1918.   The cost in deaths made that path a no go area, tough time to be a British PM. 

The NEXT Phase of COVID - 19 - Update 2 - Health

Guardian: Reports " PM will announce modest changes to UK lockdown, says Raab...Foreign secretary urges people to follow physical distancing guidance over bank holiday weekend "

Lets Get Real:

It will be interesting to see over this hot weekend how many people follow the rules, it's been weeks NOW, since the UK population was told stay in, they need to see light at the end of the tunnel.  One can understand why the PM is being very cautious, he was at death's door and does not want to place anyone else in that  circumstance, on the other hand the economy faces the worse recession since the 18th Century and also we have the BREXIT talks going nowhere, sooner or later the PM has to make people get back to work or there will be no jobs to return too.  It was reported in one of the papers that Pubs will not open in till August, the Country at that rate will become just TEA DRINKERS!!  The PM might have to move faster than he wants to save the UK economy.