Who will pay the price for COVID-19?

We are all aware that the aftermath of COVID-19 will bring an economic price to pay.

With that in mind, I would like to receive a reassurance from our local MP that the same people who paid the price of the 2008 financial crash will not be asked to pay again.

Since 2010 we have seen our public services systematically underfunded and the pay of our public service workers held down year after year, while others have profited, including the people who caused the crash in the first place.

We know, for instance, that some of those people such as hedge fund managers, have collected a cool £1bn in bonuses since 2010.

That is while people we now regard as “key” workers have suffered and the services our parents fought to establish during and after the second world war were so badly run down.

The introduction of the policy of “austerity” was not an economic necessity. It was an economic choice, and not a successful one either.

I hope that the present Government will consider the other economic choices at their disposal before once again bringing hardship to those very people who have just put their lives on the line to get us through this latest crisis. Taxation is one possibility.

We could ask the higher paid in our society, ie those who earn over £80,000 pa or more, (most people do not earn anything like this much,) to pay a small amount more.

We could also ask those big corporations who trade in this country and who make enormous profits, but do not pay tax here , to start paying that tax.

We certainly should not be giving them a bailout.

Let us save that for our own small businesses, which we badly need.

We must think carefully about the society we want to see, and the way our economy is managed, and now is most definitely the time to start.

Jo Burton

Filey

TOM do so in lives and money, not the scientists. Many people are confused by all four countries of the UK doing and going their own way dealing with the pandemic - that’s playing politics.

Do this no do that, don’t do this but if you do do that, and on top of everything stay alert oh and by the way stay safe and send your kids to school even though we can’t make the schools 100 percent safe.

The Covid- 19 virus is becoming a game of Russian Roulette. Margaret Thatcher once said this lady is not for turning she would be spinning in her grave today seeing what the Tories are doing.

It’s the people that will do and deal with this pandemic due to the Government floundering.

J Large Scarborough.

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