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ποΈ 4 December 2020
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0:00.0 | So a new report by the Fabian Society |
0:06.8 | is predicting that next year, |
0:09.1 | an additional three million Britons |
0:11.8 | are gonna be plunged into poverty, |
0:14.0 | making it one in five people in this country, |
0:17.2 | actually 22% that are gonna be living below the poverty line. That includes |
0:22.0 | an additional 850,000 children. And this is all because we're expecting unemployment to hit a record |
0:30.8 | high of 7.5% next year. And this just emphasizes the deep scarring |
0:38.3 | that is going on right now in our economy |
0:40.2 | because of the lockdowns. |
0:41.8 | This is something no one talks about. |
0:43.7 | This is something that's hard to quantify |
0:45.9 | because we're focusing on these COVID deaths every day |
0:48.8 | and COVID case numbers, |
0:50.6 | but we're not seeing the long-term ramifications |
0:53.5 | of the lockdown. And one of the problems of the |
0:55.6 | furlough scheme is that it feels like everything's okay. The government's cutting checks, |
1:01.4 | unemployment still seems okay, but it's propped up falsely by this scheme and we're going to have |
1:08.7 | to pay for all of this furlough money because the truth is |
1:11.6 | nothing is happening in our country no business is being done we're not outspending we're not |
1:18.1 | consuming goods and services and therefore we are all paying the price you just can't see it now |
1:24.6 | and that's this whole cost benefit analysis that I've been speaking about for months. |
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