I am not optimistic about the survival chances of a great many businesses in the U.K. as a result of coronavirus, but the government must give them the best chance that it can, and the requires action on its part:
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Please forgive me wandering off topic, but close to home I wish to draw particular attention to the extraordinary situation where on devolution we discover that the Treasury, as a matter of organisation struggles to produce a funding model in reasonable time, that fits the devolution settlement we actually possess; while the Conservative Government cannot even decide without ambiguity, whether a decision given in a statement in Parliament by the PM actually is the Government policy.
We really should remember all these incoherent exchanges, the next time GERS raises its head; for the construction of GERS is much more tenuous, subjective, survey, estimate and uncertainty based than anything the Treasury requires to do when it is grappling with Covid-19 and the devolved governments.
The current, inevitably transient obssession with the US election in the media (understandable maybe), is unhelpful to public understanding of what is happening under our noses, in our own state, with its own serious consequences.