UK massive tax hikes on the way

In a few of the Sunday papers today.
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is warning of major tax hikes in the new year as Britain starts paying back the debt borrowed for the Coronavirus.

Also in many papers the Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggesting that a ‘no deal’ with the E:U seems the most likely outcome and people should prepare for that possibility.

Internal Tory party squabbles are already simmering as many Conservative MP’s represent business interests openly.
One or two starting to sew seeds of discontent warning that the Prime Minister will be on shaky ground if he tries to push his Brexit deal through Parliament and it not being up to scratch.

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MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

That’s the price you pay for fear of a virus with a 99% recovery rate.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@MrBrownstone Too many dead to make that sound reasonable’, ‘excusable’ a ‘fair price to pay’.

MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

@Picklebobble2 So other diseases and other causes of death don’t exist. Got it.👍🏻

4185philip · 70-79, M

@MrBrownstone It fills hospitals. A 1 percent death rate would be the worst desaster in out history.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@MrBrownstone Not the point is it.
People are dying and they shouldn’t even be infected should they ?

MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

@Picklebobble2 You didn’t shut down for the flu each year. Even a vaccine you can spread it.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@MrBrownstone Once again, a failure to understand.
Flu isn’t Covid-19

Budwick · 70-79, M

@Picklebobble2 Death never [i]sounds [/i]reasonable.

The virus kills some people, not ALL people.

Zero casualties is the ultimate in unreasonable.

It's pretty easy for one side to say 'one death is too many'.
Quality of life for the living must be a consideration.

Handing over quality of life decisions to power hungry decision makers
ensures an equally miserable existence.

Brownstone is right.
@MrBrownstone

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@Budwick Failing to even acknowledge a problem is wrong.
Failure to act quickly enough because of‘economic concerns’ is wrong.
‘Quality of life for the living’ is not part of this equation. Nothing has made life for those without Covid even stable let alone safe thus Brownstone is wrong.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@Picklebobble2 [quote]Failing to even acknowledge a problem is wrong.[/quote]

Ridiculous response.
Social distancing, frequent sanitizing is not a failure to acknowledge a problem. It's a reasonable compromise.

A pandemic is bound to introduce some instability.
The key is adjusting - within reason.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@Budwick It's not even a compromise.
It's putting a band aid over a bullet wound !

Budwick · 70-79, M

@Picklebobble2

So, refuse the band aid?
Just let let 'em bleed out?

Everyone hiding at home will not make the virus go away.

4185philip · 70-79, M

@Budwick Exactly wrong. The virus needs contact to survive.