TonThe Queen recognized the achievements of doctors, nurses and support staff in the following ways Awarded the George Cross of the National Health Service. The honor will not be much higher than this. What about the government of Prime Minister Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sunak? It has awarded NHS employees a 2% pay cut.
2% of the figure is due to real wage cuts Already stingy with the 1% salary bonus Once the impact of an estimated price increase of 3% is taken into account.
Remember, the prime minister’s life was saved by staff at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. At the time, Johnson was not surprisingly praising the NHS, and the public also made a mistake, believing that this very right-wing Conservative Party had changed its mind before the public. And social services.
Alas, no.The public was deceived, as if it had ended BrexitSomeone told me recently that Johnson’s problem is that he is a Machiavellianist. But this is an injury to Machiavelli.As a reader prince You know, Machiavelli is not Machiavelli in the sense that the word is already well-known. The means he recommends to leaders to achieve goals is not cunning, but ruthless.
In this sense, Johnson himself is a Machiavellianist: starting with the false prospectus promised in the referendum campaign, he has been ruthless in reaching the top-the rest is recent history.As the former Irish ambassador to the UK, Bobby McDonagh, reminded us Current problem New Europe: “The British government decided to insist on a hard Brexit [was] It was neither required by the 2016 referendum nor explained to the British people at the time. “
But Johnson is not a Machiavellian in the second sense. Machiavelli believes that ruthlessness should be for the benefit of the country and the people. It is becoming increasingly clear that a hard Brexit involving leaving the customs union and the single market is a disaster for many sectors of the economy in industry and services. This is also true for the entire young generation who have become accustomed to Europeans.
In a lot of dangerous nonsense committed by our so-called Brexit “negotiator” Lord Frost, his Response to Elton John’s explanation of the serious obstacles to our musicians’ opportunity to tour EuropeAccording to Frost, if musicians are good enough, they can work in the EU. I’m sorry, Frost, but no matter how good they are: your “deal” makes it almost impossible for our world-class musicians to perform in the EU and earn money that might make up for the tax losses that are generated by the rude support you leave it. Income.
Sunak is struggling with public finances, especially because of the impact of Brexit that he advocates-at least so far-which cuts the UK’s GDP by 5% and has a severely harmful effect on taxation.
Now, although Machiavelli is interested in the interests of the country, Johnson is obviously only interested in his own interests-if that can be said. Therefore, last year, he was allegedly absent to write a book—according to his publisher, Quoted in Financial Times – Will tell us whether Shakespeare is “he exaggerated”.
Regardless of the truth of this story, it is generally believed that there was a serious delay in the implementation of the lockdown at the beginning of last year, which caused thousands of unnecessary deaths. According to reports, Johnson had high hopes for a photo with Indian Prime Minister Modi. He postponed further blockade measures. In the end, he, I have to introduce it anyway. At the same time, the Delta variant, first discovered in India, entered the country and became dominant.
Johnson’s most recent disaster was announcing that he would cancel caution on July 19, and give up wearing masks and maintaining social distancing. As Labour Party leader Sir Kil Starmer said, this is reckless. The same goes for respectable scientists such as Sir David King, former chief scientific adviser of HMG, and Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel Prize winner and director of the Creek Institute.
Stammer is correct about Johnson’s mishandling of the biggest health crisis of our time. But I have to say that I think the way Starmer has approached the current government on Brexit is very wrong. The fact is that Starmer was right to be a Remainer, and it was right to call for a second referendum. Brexit is a total disaster. This is an open goal for the opposition. Why not start shooting?
