Growth or survival?

One of the biggest sticking points of the E.U. Brexit negotiations has been horribly complicated by the wholesale privatisation initiated by the Conservatives in the 1980s.

Fishing quotas had little to do with marine conservation but a lot to do with the government turning a natural resource into a national asset which can be bought and sold by a limited number of multinational companies to make a profit.

As it stands, British fishing fleets have the right to pull out between 5 ad 8% of the allotted quotas, and no more. Why would Europe in general and France in particular just give us the 80% fishing rights that Boris is demanding without being paid back the money they spent in buying them over the years?  You cannot blame the E.U. for making our exit as difficult as possible, even if we did not sign up to it in the form it exists today. 

I remember many of my friends taking advantage of the right to buy back in the 80s. A couple of them didn't, but most did. The result now is that there is an affordable housing shortage and the next generation cannot afford to rent, let alone buy. 

The Wealth Creators which were let off the leash by The Iron Lady have done what all out of control dogs do in times of crisis. They are scouring the rubbish dumps looking for bones to pick.

Our Secretary of State for Education has been helping the situation by publicly announcing that the reason the U.K. was the first to authorise the use of the vaccine is because our scientists are better than anyone else's scientists - in fact, our country is better than anyone else's too. Better than France, better than Germany, better than any country in the world!  Oh, it was a joke was it? Gavin Williamson is a crass idiot.

France was very polite and measured in its response to yet another claim by the Conservative government that Great Britain is world-beating in its efforts to combat Covid: 'This is not a football match. We are dealing with peoples' lives and deaths'.

They are pressing on with the track and trace system which has already eaten-up 70% of the NHS's annual budget, despite being told that it does not work and never will at this late stage. The quick test they are about to introduce into care homes for the elderly has a 40+% failure rate. This means that there will be many more fatalities in care homes before the vaccine is effectively distributed, and the Russians are hacking into the distribution network to disrupt it.

The Conservatives are doing what they do best - providing billions of pounds of income for the private finance companies who have this country by the balls.

There is no meat left on the old bones of Britain anymore, let alone fat.