Michael Gove Hints at Extension of Furlough Scheme
The Government is “open minded” about extending the furlough scheme, according to Michael Gove, amid pressure from Nicola Sturgeon. Gove insisted that spending in response to Covid will remain high to help the country “build back better”. The Evening Standard has the story.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will use a Four-Nations Summit with the Prime Minister on Thursday to push for the job retention scheme to continue beyond its current September expiry date.
Now Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has indicated it could be continued.
Asked about the possibility of this, he said: “We are open minded, yes.”
Speaking ahead of the Four-Nations Summit on tackling Covid, Mr Gove said the initiative, which sees the taxpayer pay cash towards workers’ wages, had been a “huge success” that was only possible “thanks to the broad shoulders of the U.K. Treasury”.
The U.K. Government minister insisted higher spending as a response to the coronavirus pandemic would continue, as the country as a whole seeks to “build back better”.
The Scottish Government has voiced concerns about a possible return to austerity from the Conservatives at Westminster, but Mr Gove told BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme: “We’ll be spending more.
“We’ll be spending more on the NHS, we will be spending more on education, we will be spending more on criminal justice, because in all of these areas it is absolutely vital that we build back better.
“Extra funding for everyone will continue, and it is important we all learn from each other about how that money should be spent.”
Last week, hospitality industry bosses called on the Government to do the opposite, to end the furlough scheme, arguing that people on furlough would rather stay at home than work. The Sun highlighted that there are currently 188,000 job vacancies in hospitality where more than 250,000 workers remain on furlough.
The Evening Standard report is worth reading in full.
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That’s a bad sign.
Extending furlough means extending restrictions is on the cards.
And one more step towards the adoption of UBI.
yes – you couldn’t do it all in one go
All those “conspiracy theorists” who were on about UBI at the start look righter and righter all the time.
Most of the conspiracy theories from the start have either come to pass or are looking very likely to – compulsory vaccines, vaccine passports, the end of paper money, inflation and rising prices, ongoing lockdowns, UBI to name just a few
Good old Ickey!
Communism in all but use of the word.
Credit communism. It’s inevitable when so called central banks are really committees that set the price of debt and thus prices for the economy, a hallmark of marxist lunacy.
“On the cards” Lol. Only a loony would ever have expected all restrictions to be lifted on 21st June, never to return, and the government have already been pretty clear that Track and Trace and travel restrictions will continue for the foreseeable future, and of course the vaccine program with boosters and new vaccines for variants will grind on for decades. Some restrictions may be lifted in June but to think that the coronamadness will be over then is simply fanciful. It’s the new normal.
No. Its not “normal”.
“New normal” isnt a thing. Its abnormal.
Stop accepting it.
I will never accept it as long as I live, and will never give up trying to convince people of the truth, but we need to recognise where we are which is that the insane narrative continues to dominate
Good man. Stay strong with integrity. Totally with you on that one. ✊
the “new normal” TM
USA completely open, internal flights busier than ever. Mental illness will take over in little Britain. It looks like it already has in the gov’t and it’s advisors.
The picture at the beginning of this item makes me want to vomit….please, not again!
He looks like he’s still in school
FURLOUGH = LOCKDOWN
Furlough= bribing idiots not to think to hard about all the bad stuff that’s coming their way.
Paying people to do nothing; all part of training the sheep to abdicate responsibility for their own lives to the state.
Which is the opposite of what we should be doing; open up, get people working again to regain a sense of normality, (traditional, not “new”), and let the anxious see that there is nothing to fear and everything to gain from having close contact with their fellow man.
We all know UBI was the plan from the start, why not just admit it?
unearned money will not be spent wisely and will quickly work it’s way to those title holders.
This is appalling news. It’s their usual, predictable strategy of “leak it to the press” to see how the public responds. Get angry. Lockdown must STOP, and never happen again.
Gove is a snake, utterly appalling creature.
When this rot is allowed to continue, you know that good can no longer prevail…
I suggest if Sturgeon wants furlough extended the the scottish ministration can pay for it. Sucking at the English teat is becoming very tiresome.
She certainly has a brass neck, covered with a tartan scarf. I thought her idea is for a Caledonian Utopia, pap-fed as an EU subordinate state, wholly free of the nasty English and their money. Hypocrisy.
Inevitable. They couldn’t work the scam without bribery.
But don’t blame the punters – it’s the simple profit motive : a reward/effort equation.
I know people who liked furlough and others that hated it
Yes, so do I. And to be fair, most people I know have work itself as part of the reward side of the equation. Only sad misanthropes with their own problems tend to attribute furlough generally as being driven from bottom up.
Put Fear+Reward for submission together, tho’, and you have a powerful self-reinforcing psychological combination.
Build Back Better. Oddly I’ve a sense I heard that before.
How come I am not a penny better off from their Build Back Better scheme and we are thousands of pounds worse off ? Gove’s clearly been snorting the white coco powder in Islington again.
Most people will be tens of thousands of pounds worse off with “build back better” once his green nonsense kicks in fully.
Build Back Better for the few, not the many.
Michael Gove snorted coke and the fizzy bubbles went right up his nose.
Long Cocaine.
They should just call it what it is, UBI and have done with lying.
‘Build back better’, ah there was me thinking this was ‘the green deal’; you know all those heat pumps to replace gas boilers etc. Well unfortunately for the UK government ( and most others) the German government has just put a rather large spoke in that wheel.
Their report ( linked below in English) on dangers to health from water supplies contaminated by the acid coming from heat pumps , and their call to stop installing them, may lead to more life yet from the old gas boiler.
https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/press/pressinformation/trifluoroacetic-acid-from-fluorinated-refrigerants
Every penny these lunatics throw down the toilet serves only to reduce the value of money for everyone. Don’t any of these people realise what they are doing? With what has been spent already we will be lucky to avoid prices doubling within a matter of months and unlike with progressive inflation the level of wages will not even remotely keep pace with the price rises. Hyper inflation is particularly nasty for those at the lower end of the food chain who will undoubtedly find themselves on or below the bread line.
Undoubtedly there will be calls for so called “green taxes” to try and make up some of the balance which will of course hurt those at the lower end of the spectrum the most.
Printing money works until suddenly it doesn’t, and the proverbial hits the fan and everyone’s pockets.
“On the cards”? It was ALWAYS the bloody plan! UBI anyone?
Gove’s only hope of advancement lies in technocracy, not democracy. Little wonder that he’s trying to hurry it along.
I am at present wearing a t – shirt proclaiming ‘ Resist Technocracy’
After a long gap, I have been re-reading the memoirs of the German WW2 general Guderian. After he and other generals were dismissed by Hitler, he wrote:-
“The result of the ill-feeling thus engendered was the law passed by the Reichstag on April 26th, 1942, which removed the last checks to totalitarian authority in the legislative, executive and judicial spheres. This law (which granted Hitler the right to change law by decree without discussion by the Reichstag) marked the culmination of a long process which had begun with the unfortunate Authorisation Act of March 23rd, 1933; the German dictator was now given complete despotic power. Germany had thus ceased to be a modern state whose structure was based on the rule of law.”
That was happening in Germany 79 years ago, and I never thought, when I first read that passage almost forty years ago, that I would, in 2021, be living in a country which now so closely resembles the Third Reich.
Indeed. By 1942, many Germans had already experienced living in a dictatorship under the Kaiser, so it wasn’t too difficult for Hitler to assume the role. In contrast, the supine attitude of the British people to what has been coming their way over the past 30 or so years has been quite nauseating. Bread and circuses, anyone?
And the unvaccinated become the new Jews, a target to blame for government policy of continued restrictions.
We can point to Florida as an example of no restrictions, no masks, no coerced vaccinations, but it won’t make any difference. People become illogical and fanatical.
We mustn’t weaken on ensuring that our freedoms are returned in full, we must not become complacent simply because we are closer to the day when our glorious leader Alexander Johnson has promised to grant us (some) of our freedoms back on the 21st June – if he took our freedoms away once he can just as easily take them away again … and he will – so we must send a powerful message to this government that its penchant for totalitarianism will not be tolerated again.
I’m going to be there – hope you can make it too …
They will wait until he end of the summer rioting season before they sack 5m+
Mengele Gove should be fired, he is totalitarian scum,
He will fund this but not a decent catch-up programme for schoolchildren.
Priorities -pah!
The only thing they need to catch up with is normality.
More FUD…
Has any real journalist asked the minister what build back better means
They could ask, but I doubt they’d get a sensible answer.
It means a teacher in every classroom.
The establishment took a financial hit with Brexit raising wages for the average worker and their rents falling so this is more taxpayers money for them.
Gove is another in a long line of annoying, bent finger pointing fucktards I would never tire of kicking.
Time for violence.
What the F does build back better even mean? Whose version of better? better for whom? how will this better look? what does that mean for the average joe in the street?
Why do the MSM allow these people to come out with these little slogans without asking them to define what that means.
Plus Gove has clearly been briefed by psyops to keep the alarm level up in the Public by the indication that Furlough extension means Lockdown coming back thus the sadistic game of continuing the terror on the British Public.
It’s the new way of doing politics, creeping towards things that people would never accept but for the fact that they were gradually and relentlessly nudged there.
Zero-covid + closed borders. Started months ago, almost there.
UBI, slowly making a sizeable chunk of the population unemployable and addicted to state support.
Vaccine passports, government still having to play hot and cold with it, but will definitely be introduced for travel and when people get used to that, they’ll extend it to everyday life.
Of course it would be Mengele Gove spouting this rubbish, he would tell you, with a straight face, that Manchester United play their home games in Eindhoven, wearing black and white stripes.
Eff off Gove. You want to control us into the foreseeable.
“Build Back Better”
Whoo hoo – we’re with you.
There is a MASSIVE problem with “Build Back Better” – it makes the assumption that what we had before, in this case pre March 2020 was fundamentally bad. The obvious question:
In what way was it bad? Examples please.
Now could you explain in which ways you are going to rebuild in ways that are eminently better than what we had before.
Or is this a case of destruction for destruction’s sake?
Build back better! How exactly does one build back better when they destroyed their own country. Oh people you have been warned this is only the beginning of the hell coming. Only the beginning. Especially when idiots like Gove repeat the mantra WEF “build back better” you know they are determined to get the job done. How much were they paid? What were they promised? Are their children part of the protected. It is their future.
“broad shoulders of the U.K. Treasury”. Well that puts paid to Sturgeon’s belief that Scotland can be financially independent.
Of course furlough will be extended! Only way to keep this pantomime going. Pay us all (?) off! We ,as a nation, won’t continue to obey our masters of they ain’t paying us! We now live in a country where the frightened, the gullible and the stupid follow the bast*rds!
Remember that “magic money tree” that they don’t have? Keep on shaking it, don’t they!