EVIDENCE OF AUSTERITY

SUMMARY   It is revealed that Austerity was unnecessary after Johnson was spending £500bln in one year during Covid on untendered contracts for Track/Trace and PPE/Ventilators to his friends which wasn't done! Austerity should be cancelled now!

Hopeful Johnson will be intervene and rescue the Pension Fund of Arcadia Group this time.

After an already longest list of small and big chain-stores either already bankrupt or cutting drastically their branches the latest is now the Arcadia Group owned by Sir Philip Green. Green already drove BHS into closure with the Pension Fund of estimated £500mln missing. somehow its no surprise that Arcadia Group is heading for Bankruptcy. Will the Pension Fund be paid out to 15,000 staff losing their job?

Johnson and his Tory Government did not issue a Quarter Report on Economy at the end of September. The previous report showed a deficit and no need to guess it will show another one; maybe even bigger. They also did not do an Autumn Budget.


Experts and the Public are not easily fooled although Johnson tries his best.


It is so obvious when you walk down the High Street. Rows of boarded up small shops and big Stores with sale signs for closing down and big price reduction in red across their windows.


Johnson and his Government achieved finally an economic disaster because of Austerity and the newly established Universal Credit. People are at their rock bottom or beyond and cannot afford to buy anything. They even have to make a choice between to buy food or pay for heating. Streets are littered with rough sleepers and all that in a country to be the fifth richest in the world.


Apart from big companies left the country or even being sold by this Government; big Store Chains are now in trouble and have to either close down a great number of stores or go bankrupt. Amongst them are very well known and old names which had been around for centuries.


Here is a list of some of the 1,243 Stores in 500 Top High Street which will close down in 2020:

Plus TATA - British Steel announced cuts 1,000 jobs

Plus NPower - energy provider - cuts 4,500 jobs

Mothercare gone into administration - 79 stores - 2,500 job loss


Debenham – 4,000 Job loss


Marks and Spencer – 959 stores close


Toys R Us

Topshop – 500 Stores close

New Look - 90 Stores close

Poundworld

Maplin - 2,500 job loss

House of Frazer

Evans Cycles

Sainsbury, Argos, Asda – 125 stores close

Morrison – 2,600 job loss

Miss Selfridges –

Next – 200 stores close

Lingerie Outlet St – including DKNY, Vanity Fair, stopped trading

Yorkshire Linen

Karen Millen – bankrupt - plus further 18 stores

Select – 1,800 job loss

Thomas Cook went into administration but saved by Hays Travel

Abermarle + Bond – 400 staff and 100 branches close

Foot Locker – close 1100 stores in UK

Bennetts – largest Dept Store in the World struggling to survive but closed shops

tRed in administration since 2017 saved by shutting down some branches

HARRY AMIES on Saville Row – closed down

Office Outlet – 1,200 job loss

J Jill – closes 75 stores


It is no surprise that the economy finally grinds to a standstill after 9 years of Tory Government constant cut down in Welfare, Councils, Civil Service, Universal Credit and rising prices in energy tariffs, food and clothing.


It is a surprise it lasted so long and did not crush any earlier.


Now, Johnson heading for GE19 and promises anything and everything, but it is too late. The economy is at its final. 

Car industry, which is always the backbone of the Economy, announced that they would go ahead with re-location which means another great loss of jobs.


Johnson is now determined to sign a TTIP and sale of NHS with Trump which means UK get colonised and NHS privatised all for the benefit of Johnson, his gang and Trump.


Hopefully, he wont be able to achieve it before his, hopefully, non-re-election on 12 December, 2019

BRITAIN ECONOMIC GROWTH ANOTHER LIE

Tories as always will blame some one or some event for their miss-management. This time it will be Covid 19 for their economic disaster but as this report shows is had began a long time ago, as far back as 2010 when Cameron was elected and introduced soon after Austerity.

Ever since the cuts on Welfare and stop wage increases the economy suffers. People haven't got the money to buy not even the essentials and pay their bills. By now various Chancellors and PMs, started with Cameron and Osborne, screwed down the income and people starving and freezing to death. The streets are littered with rough sleepers. Austerity costs 130,000 lives!!!!

Well before the pandemic broke lose therefore Covid is no excuse for economy crash landed. Admittedly it didn't help  but there again why didn't PM Johnson react in February 2020 to prevent a widespread of the virus. His famous words were "Let the virus run riot" and "heard immunisation". Covid, so far, costs 70,000 lives and a ruined economy and country!!!

UK is one of the top richest country in the world!?!?   

Any one without any knowledge of economy knows that when you cut Welfare and stop wages the economy goes down.  

Britain economic growth is heading for half of the first quarter of 2016, according to  experts.

It looks like 0,2 per cent in the second quarter,  better as predicted but still a slow down from 0.4 per cent from the first quarter, a survey compiler Markit stated.

The service sector index rose from 53.5 in May from 52.3 in April which better than expected.

It helped the composite Index, which improved from 51.9 to 52.8, which includes manufacturing and construction.

Mark it's Chris Williamson who said: "Growth has collapsed in manufacturing and construction, leaving the economy dependent on the service sector to sustain the upturn, though even here the pace of expansion has remained frustratingly weak so far this year,

"An increasing number of firms have cited uncertainty regarding the EU referendum as a factor hurting their business growth in recent months.

"Response to a special question in May showed some 36 per cent of firms reporting a detrimental impact from Brexit uncertainty, with 8 per cent seeing a strongly detrimental effect.

"It seems reasonable to expect this uncertainty to persist and even intensify in June, subduing economic growth further."

No doubt there is some influence from the uncertainty of the outcome of EU referendum but the economy was not strong in the last six years and had two recessions, nearly missed a third one, plus one downgrading of the Pound from the sixth to the seventh place. The last two occurrences were years before the EU referendum was announced.

Norway left the EU in 1993 and is only in the EEA and is  the fifth richest country. 90 per cent of the trade is with Europe.

Chancellor George Osborne's austerity is the real reason, not encouraging manufacturing and construction growth. In March it was announced that unemployment increased by 61,000. March has always been a month when employment drastically increased because of the better weather encouraging building works

Especially in this sector what happened to the promise from David Cameron in GE2015 to build affordable houses to reduce homelessness which would have improved unemployment in this section? 

JEREMY CORBYN LABOUR NEW LEADER

He won it by 60 per cent out of 400,000 votes. Mr Corbyn has now the hard task to pick the right people for his Shadow Cabinet Ministers.

His number of promises certainly gave him the majority of votes. His plans are:

As a self-described democratic socialist, Corbyn has advocated the re-nationalisation of public utilities and railways, re-opening coal mines, combating corporate tax evasion and avoidance as an alternative to austerity, abolishing university tuition fees and restoring student grants, an unilateral policy of nuclear disarmament and cancellation of the Trident nuclear weapons programme, quantitative easing to fund infrastructure and renewable energy projects, and reversing cuts to the public sector and welfare made since 2010 by the government of David Cameron. He is also a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Amnesty International, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the National Chair of the Stop the War Coalition. (Wikipedia)

n general bringing back equality to the UK. He has certainly all the right boxes ticked and hopefully he achieves them all.

Since Prime Minister David Cameron and his Tory Party riding rough-shots across the general party it certainly needs a man like Jeremy Corbyn to stop them. Already the Tories spreading smears and lies stating that Mr Corbyn plans to axe the.Army. He really said was that he axed the Nuclear weapons and it would be nice if there was no army and peace across the world. The full speech can be read in the Daily Mirror which he gave on 26 October, the anniversary of the Atom Bomb.

Jeremy Corby is a MP at Islington North and was a backbencher all those years from 1983. He is known for giving answers he believes in and not answers to get votes. Sometimes it even went against the Labour Party but there again it was Tony Blair at that time.

Mr Corbyn is known as left-wing but left-wing or right-wing as long it pulls the Labour party back onto the road it was famous for. Tony Blair with blinding the public with “New Labour” almost dismantling the original Labour Party.  It turned out that he was nothing but a Thatcherite. Why he never joined the Tories straight away is a good question?

Now Mr Corbyn seems to face all the problems the Tories created and bring back the Labour to care for the people again. As Mr Corbyn stated in one of his speeches when someone accused him to bring the country back to the 1980 he replied: “No, I bring it back to the 1970s when Harold Wilson and James Callaghan were in power. Harold Wilson was the only Prime Minister who did not follow the US He refused to join in when the US declared war on Vietnam.  He also paid down the National Debts. James Callaghan was praised by The Guardian for the best Prime Minister since Attlee.

The most important fact is now that the Labour MPs are unite behind Mr Corbyn and bring the Party back to its full glory which would win the next election.  MPs, no matter which party, seem to have one ambition to climb the ladder and fill their own pocket; instead to support their leader and work together to bring prosperity to the country and its people. As Mr Corbyn said a few days ago that MPs are hopping in and out of limousines, go to big dinners. In his opinion that is not what MPs suppose to be there for. They should work for the people who voted them in.

Mr Corbyn does not give that impression and maybe it was also a point which brought him the win of Labour Leadership. People have more than their full share of MPs and leaders living in luxuries while demanding austerity. The gap between rich and poor has widened almost to the Victories ages.  The public is on widespread starvation, homelessness, over 1,000 food banks to keep them alive and thousands committed suicide or died of starvation while the millionaires and billionaires doubled and trebled their wealth in the last four years.

With Mr Corbyn it seems like a new dawn and hope has broken because he is known as a hard man when he wants to achieve his plans, speaks his minds and believes in it. He also plans to give other Labour MPs a chance to speak at Prime Minister’s Question Time in the House of Commons.  If the Labour MPs have the sense to unite behind him Labour not only brings back the Britain which it was famous for but also the original Labour Party.

Daily Mirror

NEW CT SCANNERS COPE WITH OBESE PATIENTS

In spite of all the warning from doctors and experts but obesity is rising whatever the reason. The call of hospitals having to buy new scanner to cope with obese patients is on the increase.  The new CT scanner has almost five times the X-ray power of normal machines.  It has the power of 240KW as to previous machines of 50KW. It is necessary for doctors to receive a good image.

The maximum weight it can cope with had increased from 160kg to 300kg. The board has changed from 70cm to 80cm.  The machine has also to improve its lightening speed   because obese patients can not hold their breath as long as other patients.  The cost of one of this new machine is £1million each.

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Russell Lodge, business manger at Siemens Healthcare providing these machines to the NHS said: “The number of bariatric (obese) patients referred for CT scans has more than doubled in 125 years and is predicted to go on rising.”

Statistics show that over 64 per cent of adults in England are overweight. Apparently the North East has the highest admission to hospitals for obesity. One reason for the highest obesity located in the North-East is high unemployment which is purely the fault of this Tory-led Coalition and Margaret Thatcher who closed down mines and shipbuilding industry.  Naturally unemployed people sit about more and eat more.   The treatment for over weight problems costs the NHS £5.1billions a year. If this money would have been invested into industry in the North East is would have produced taxes instead of unemployment benefits. 

What kind of Chancellor is George Osborn who cost the economy £240billion with his stupid austerity.

Tam Fry, National Obesity Forum, said: “The rapidly expanding size of CT scanners is shocking but sadly, not surprising. As a society, we have allowed people to get fatter and fatter. This is not about blaming individual patients, because every one’s circumstances are different. But it is absolutely tragic that as a nation we are becoming so fat we have to redesign medical equipment.”

Due to the increase obese patients the hospitals also had widen the corridors and larger doors fitted.

Generally CT scans use X-rays and computer to produce a detailed image of your body. The images called tomograms are more detailed. The produced images of the inside of your body are used to diagnose cancer, bone conditions, heart conditions and injuries to organs.

The first commercial CT scanner was invented by Sir Godfrey Woodsfield in London.  It produced the first brain scan in the world in October 1971.