Britain is leading the way to a dystopian future that nobody wants but might arrive anyway– Letter from Great Britain- [10-09-21]

“The Financial Jigsaw” has been serialised here and is replaced by this weekly “Letter from Great Britain.”  NOTE – If anyone would like an electronic copy of the complete book, I should be pleased to email a free PDF on request to: [email protected].

THE current energy crisis is only one of a number major problems being faced today by the British public this winter.  Massive backlogs to access health care via NHS. Around 6 million people are waiting for treatment. This is a disaster and will lead to many deaths, likely far more than caused by the so called Covid-19 virus.

There are supposed fuel shortages, actually caused by the media, rather than by it being real, although a driver shortage is real and caused by lockdown and the failure of DVLA to authorise licences as a result of closure of the economy for 18 months. But the natural gas rise in prices is all very real and getting worse as winter comes on.  And food shortages caused for the same reason as above, delivery drivers, and the consistent destruction of crops which farmers are incentivised to do.

A Social Care and NHS worker crisis is now coming due to ‘no jab no job’ policy which will expose the elderly and vulnerable to lack of care and protection due to staff to patient ratios falling. It will also lead to further waiting lists ergo further deaths in the future that could have been avoided.

Britain has a massive black hole in finances caused by the incessant drive to throw money at useless testing, and awarding of contacts to ministers mates. The total spend for the last 18 months is £299 billion and now we are expected to pay for it in a tax and NI hike that no one can afford. We are literally paying the rich and elite to continue to screw us over

These are just a few of the disasters facing Britain among many other countries. But I have to ask why this has come about and who is to blame.

BUT the energy crisis is building to make this winter the worst yet. “The situation in the UK, where market prices have quadrupled in the past year, is particularly acute.

            Europe-wide price rises have been compounded by the UK’s unusually low gas storage capacity, as well as outages in the electricity system, including a fire at a key power import cable, leading to increased reliance on gas power plants.

Consumers have been warned to expect higher bills and more household energy supplier failures, while heavy industry and the food and drink sector are facing the prospect of shutdowns and pre-Christmas product shortages.  The “winter gas season”, when heating demand is usually higher, starts on 1 October and there are predictions of a colder than average winter.

While ministers have insisted the UK has enough gas to avoid the lights going out or a 1970s-style three-day working week, analysts warned low temperatures could exacerbate the crisis.  “If the winter is colder than normal, natural gas supplies could run even shorter, leaving Europeans and possibly other countries, especially those that can barely afford current energy prices, in the cold:” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/28/uk-wholesale-gas-prices-highs

AND now that Britain is removing much of the financial support following lockdowns, employees and businesses will be in trouble this winter: “With signs of activity slowing even before pressures on supply chains began to mount over the past few weeks, the chancellor was criticised for cutting off a wage-subsidy lifeline that is still supporting well over a million jobs.

Frances O’Grady, the TUC general secretary, said the end of the furlough scheme coupled with the £20 a week cut in universal credit next week meant the government was heading into the winter with no plan to protect workers.  “Ministers should rethink the end of furlough. Many workers in hard hit industries are still furloughed and need support for longer. Otherwise, we may see a rise in unemployment,” O’Grady said.

Business leaders warned of an “autumn storm” from the government dismantling emergency pandemic support schemes at a time when the economic recovery from Covid-19 was faltering.  The coronavirus Job Retention Scheme was launched by Sunak on 20 March last year, after consultation with unions and bosses, covering 80% of a furloughed employee’s wages, up to £2,500 a month.

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said the end of the furlough scheme, the scrapping of the small employer sick pay rebate, and the closure of the government’s apprenticeship incentive scheme would add to pressure on companies.

Mike Cherry, the FSB’s national chair, said: “It’s potentially a dangerous moment. As the weather turns colder, so too will the operating environment for many firms. With recent economic growth numbers having fallen below expectations, the upcoming festive season may not provide as much of a boost as hoped to many small businesses’ bottom lines.” Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/30/ditching-furlough-scheme

BUT more bad news for renters as the eviction moratorium ends; “The proportion of private renters relying on benefits in England has surged to around one in three since the start of the pandemic, leaving thousands at risk of homelessness due to arrears if the uplift to UC is removed by ministers as planned.  The squeeze on renters is being compounded by the final lifting of the emergency restrictions on evictions during the pandemic in England and the end of the furlough scheme.  Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have extended more liberal measures on evictions until next year.

“For many struggling renters this cut could be the final blow that forces them from their homes,” said Jon Sparkes, the chief executive of Crisis. “The UK government must change course and keep the £20 uplift so that people don’t needlessly lose their homes this winter and we have a fighting chance at recovery. The UK government assured people they would not lose their home because of the crisis; we must not fail them now.”

The charity predicts evicted households who seek help from local councils with emergency housing will end up costing the public purse more.  With a third of renters relying on benefits following the pandemic, the impact could be widespread.

The number of private renters relying on UC or housing benefit for rent surged to almost 2 million in May 2021 with 560,000 renters joining benefits queues since February 2020, according to analysis by the housing charity Shelter of Department of Work and Pensions figures.  The biggest increases were seen in the most expensive areas of London and the south-east, but other hotspots where the majority of renters rely on benefits include Blackpool, Middlesbrough, Great Yarmouth and Torbay.

Dan Wilson Craw, the director of the Generation Rent campaign group, said the UC cut would have a twin effect on renters, pushing some into arrears that would lead to eviction and make it harder for them to pass affordability checks to get a new home. He said about half of private renters who rely on local housing allowance benefits already do not get enough to cover their rent”:https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/30/100000-renters-in-england-risk-eviction

HOWEVER – Is Covid just a cover for the engineered collapse of the global economy?  Oil is not the only thing suffering in the supply chain. Natural gas, fertilizer, carbon dioxide for food preservation, and more are all in short supply due to the devastating impact of the scamdemic.   Things are fizzling out, and fast, at a time when the Northern Hemisphere is on the verge of entering a cold winter season. Is this the “dark winter” that Joe Biden warned about last year?

Christmas is also on the way, and experts are warning that the expected revenues that would normally come at this time of year will be greatly impacted by supply problems as tankers full of goods float around in the ocean waiting for some place to port and unload.

As it turns out, there are very few workers at the ports these days, so that, too, is a problem for all kinds of consumer goods. This, plus the shutdown of factories where products are made, bodes ominous for the global economy.  “The classic Christmas dinner could be decimated, with turkey, pigs in blankets, potatoes and brussell [sic] sprouts all at risk,” warns Jamie White, writing for Newswars.

At a time when the biggest bubble economies in the history of the world are on the verge of collapsing, it is highly suspect that all of these new problems are emerging, supposedly due to the latest “variants” of Covid..

It would appear as though the elites are keeping the covid scam going to keep everyone distracted from the monumental financial mess they made, which is leaving them obscenely rich and the rest of us destitute – or at least that is how things are likely to end up once the dust settles.

“This is the globalists’ world,” wrote one commenter at Zero Hedge. “They have demolished the world economy in less than two years.”  “They couldn’t have done it without decades of work to ship production to China first,” responded another, making the connection between what the “left” and the “right” have been doing in tandem for decades to bring us to this critical point in the prophetic timeline.

SO the result of these supply chain disruptions is the inevitable ‘inflation’ in prices in everything and everywhere.  The global supply chains are broken and this essay explains how this is turning out to affect every one of us as the months roll on.  This essay is fairly long on detail for those wishing to read in full, but I reproduce the final summary for those not inclined to slog through the excellent arguments and detailed analysis.

“There is an unavoidable price for the ceaseless avalanche of goods and services falling around us: it is exposure to an arrant, inherent level of complexity. Only the coordination of a superabundant array of prices, timing, capacity, and information keeps the globally-integrated supply chain functioning. A single, small misstep or error increases the likelihood of subsequent problems at every juncture in the process. The “two weeks to flatten the curve” decision along with other shortsighted, unnecessary (and, as it turns out, ineffective) policy options has generated countless knock-on effects. Those now include shortages of shipping containers, long and increasing port delays, a growing scarcity of essential supply chain components, insufficient labor, higher prices, and a mounting undersupply of final goods. While it may prove hyperbolic, for the first time this week the description of a “global transport system collapse” was employed.  

Science and engineering have brought about an era in which doldrums no longer vex modern day mariners. Owing to innovation and entrepreneurship, there are no longer horse latitudes where payloads are dumped overboard by desperate crews. Yet those conditions have re-emerged, borne not of nature but of power, mindlessly exercised. The idea that an economy could be indiscriminately shut down and turned back on without far-reaching consequences, as if a light switch or lawn mower, is utterly damnable. It could only come from the mind of an individual, or body of individuals, with no understanding of or consideration for the extraordinary interdependence of the productive sector.” Read in full here: https://www.aier.org/article/an-armor-conspired-the-global-shipping-freeze

BREXIT: The EU could hit Britain and Jersey’s energy supply over the UK’s failure to provide sufficient fishing licences to French fishers, France’s EU affairs minister has said.  France has been consistently pushing the EU to take a stronger stance against the UK over its concerns that Boris Johnson’s government is acting in breach of its obligations over fishing access to Channel waters.

The UK is a net importer of energy from French nuclear power stations. Paris has previously suggested it could cut the supply to Jersey, whose energy it provides through undersea cables under a commercial contract between the French company EDF and the Jersey Electricity Company.

VACCINE ADVERSE REACTIONS:  “A database launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2015 details a worryingly long list of the 2201851 catalogued reports of adverse reactions to the Covid-19 vaccine.

The database – VigiAccess – was shown in a video that was shared on social media and we can confirm that what is presented is true and accurate. VigiAccess lists all the reported adverse reactions to the Covid-19 vaccine and other vaccines. The WHO database is maintained by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre in Sweden and is one of the largest global adverse event reporting systems.”  https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/07/shocking-a-world-health-organisation-database-lists-2201851-adverse-reactions-to-the-covid-19-vaccine-including-birth-disorders/

To be continued next week.

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Author: Austrian Peter

Peter J. Underwood is a retired international accountant and qualified humanistic counsellor living in Bruton, UK, with his wife, Yvonne. He pursued a career as an entrepreneur and business consultant, having founded several successful businesses in the UK and South Africa His latest Substack blog describes the African concept of Ubuntu - a system of localised community support using a gift economy model. View all posts by Austrian Peter