Haha, Freddie, I know the feeling, although I don't go clubbing I have been know to go to venues like the Hope & Anchor to support some younger, ex-colleagues, who play in bands.I agree with some of the comments made such as:"If you are happy with a small group of private unelected billionaires deciding the future for the rest of us plebs then that is your individual choice""There have been so many U-turns by this Johnson government that I am now at a stage I don't believe a word they tell us."It is inequitable that Gates, Bezos, Warren, etc and others have all the power but sadly it's a fact that through history power, property and money go hand in hand - just look at the UK's feudal leasehold system.Yes, Johnson's not going to change that, it's not in his interest and before the last election some of us were trying to point out on this forum that he was a duplicitous buffoon. Yes, the current opposition is ineffectual but with the UK's electoral system they have little power to do anything given Johnson's majority. Perhaps some should have thought about voting against Johnson; for all his faults at least Corbyn (that's Jeremy not Piers) believes in what he says. Still that's history.But post pandemic there's plenty of opportunity to generate wealth - new ways to fight climate change being a major one. I'm not sure government debt is such an issue: these things get fudged, we only recently finished paying the debt to compensate those in the slavery business when it was abolished (who said crime doesn't pay, just remember where some of the families who have wealth today got it from).Conspiracy, perhaps conclusion or collaboration are more appropriate ideas? I'm not a great believer in conspiracy theories; cock ups are more common! Still, people believe the earth's flat or is only 6,000 years old in the face of pretty good evidence to the contrary ... still, Google has entries to let one prove anything one wants to, its looking at the authors and peer reviewers, and their provenance that's important ...
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