So where is all the money coming from?

IT seems that we have had a “perfect storm”, as the phrase goes, where the events in both the country and the world have tipped the balance of life and the economy into complete disarray.

What concerns me is that everything has dissolved into chaos so quickly. Were we all previously sailing so close to the wind that we had no room for manoeuvre?

We are in no position to prepare for another set of events should they arise (both personally and governmentally). Too many people have hit rock bottom too soon. There didn’t seem to be any ‘Plan ‘B’. There still doesn’t.

Right now, the country’s coffers are being drained at a phenomenal rate and, if we get the tax cuts everyone is shouting for, they will remain empty, leaving us in an even more precarious position. Millions are being talked about as though it is monopoly money.

For example, no one seems to be talking about recovering the lost money from the frauds that were committed, not only during the pandemic, but throughout our history. The country’s infrastructure is creaking at the seams and things appear to be falling apart. Why?

It seems firms are being allowed to do cost-cutting instead of being pushed to invest. All that will bring about is more expensive repairs later on. This neglect will bite us on the posterior sooner than we think.

Some countries have already reneged on their debts because of the worldwide economic problems, meaning less money will be repaid to us. It is no good thinking we will find some cash down Parliament’s sofas, thinking that will save us.

Mrs T Newman

Gloucester