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The voucher scheme will fall flat on it is face. For one i would not go out spend £500 to buy a coffee or the odd curry. It is just daft, now if i can spend it on an instrument I would do so. However if i cannot spend it online then there is no point. I am not going rounds shops to see who will take it and get covid 19. It’s a good idea but it should have no restrictions and it should be cash not a voucher
It is a daft idea
£50 is one thing: £500 is crazy
The aim is to force people to spend
But it has to be very selective to work and so will also have significant redistribution impact in it – although mainly to the young
The only explanation for the government peddling the nonsense of ‘not being afford’ to fund the NHS is that it is determined to see through the selling off of the NHS – probably to the US – which has been its aim since coming into power in 2010. The roadmap, blatantly obvious from the beginning with the cynical underfunding and false funding promises, involves bringing it to its knees (now helped by Covid) so that it can be described as ‘failing’ and justifying ‘saving’ it by using foreign funding i.e. selling it. It’s time we realised that there are no depths or lies to which this nasty, anti-democratic government will not stoop to achieve its socially destructive aims