Indeed. The wealthy always have networks to make migration and moving house possible. If you lack the money and means (the average youth/student protestor); good luck. I seriously doubt the Tories will set up a rescue program to get those to the UK.

Sadly, HK passports aren't equivalent to UK passports. Ironically, this was done as a countermeasure to stop poor HK people trying to move to the UK hence Bohnson's empty gesture.

Rich HK people would have options, the UK being one of many. Singapore, Taiwan, but also Malaysia and Indonesia have many Chinese wealthy/middle class diaspora. Better tax rates too, just ask Dyson!

They need to do something. We have lost access to the EU's Galileo system, and I'm guessing they are concerned that the US is no longer a reliable ally.

They'll know the people the money will go to I presume.

I thought we could have stayed in the Galileo thing easily enough. But obviously chose not to, desire having previously out money into it. Just daft ideology.

We need someone to pick the fruit now the Europeans are out.

The reading from the news on the economy is grim. More and more job cuts. The deepest recession this country has ever known. Unemployment expected to rise to record levels. How do people keep paying their mortgage, their bills and putting food on the table? Does anyone have an answer or a way out of this?

Yeah but, we get 50% off for a meal

Looking at those numbers make me feel ill. I’ve got no chance com september.

It’s a shit show for a lot of people, but at least we have our ten pound vouchers

Tax the rich and feed the poor, but the Tories will never do that. They’ll just tax unevenly and lower earners will suffer even more. 

I realise higher tax for high earners will affect my high-earning wife and she will moan, but I will be here to tell her to shut the fuck up.

While the meal deal/restaurant thing is laudible. I have no desire to go to a pub or a restaurant yet. It feels like more of an ordeal laced with an unknown level of risk.

For those of us lucky enough to be still in employment it isn't a money off deal that will nudge me out the door.

I feel I probably should though.

yep.

If they are the party of the SME they need to go further than they have done.

Yeah I watched that piece on the news last night.
We should be proud to give these families a home.

I firmly believe that many of the troubles we experience in the world today are rooted in the rarity of true empathy in our political and industrial leaders. The qualities that gets them there means really deep down they don't care about how people feel.

It is a quality that is required at times - the tough decisions require it in many cases. But things have become skewed.

These people work their butts off - I have no doubt of that - and see no issue with zero hours contracts for example. So it's hard to see how they could empathise with those of us who value work/life balance.

Those who inherit wealth mistake that happenstance for intelligence or ability (I have it on good authority from someone who worked for that type - he even saw it in lottery winners after a while) and believe that it's a level playing field - that one only has to pull ones socks up - when it is becoming more and more difficult to improve ones lot.

Whether that's to do with upbringing (certainly packing our PM off to boarding school would have hardened any attitude he may have had re family separation and it's a safe bet that many others suffered the same) or just plain old mild psychopathy or a combination of both, I feel globally we are leaderless in most spheres of life. There aren't that many "humans" among them.

The virus has exposed how useless the free market is in face of a global crisis but whether that will dampen fervour for it is another matter - simply because it doesn't personally affect enough of those who can change it.