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Welcome to Worst Hot Take of the Week – a column in which @MULLET_FAN_NEO crowns the wildest hot take of the week.
Reasonable take: The government needs a multi-stage plan to reopen the events industry along with the rest of the economy, as other countries have.
Brain rot: What about, instead of supporting this enormous amount of people who are doing skilled jobs that they love and that bring everyone joy, they retrain for “better” ones instead?
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When the furlough scheme comes to an end on Halloween lots of us are going to have worse troubles to deal with than a bunch of 11-year old’s mercilessly egging your front door for not handing out V-Bucks. For instance: the £70 billion industry you’ve spent your life working in collapsing because the Tory government has decided it’s no longer “viable”.This week the Business Secretary Alok Sharma said in the House of Commons that the solution to the impending evisceration of the creative, event and art sectors lies in our “welfare system” and training schemes for “better jobs”. Health Minister Heather Whately also appeared on Sky News this week to reiterate the new party line that “it doesn’t make sense to continue supporting jobs where there simply isn’t work”.
What blue sky thinking by our government to fix the issues at hand with such a comprehensive and studious plan!It seems we really are being prepped to do the 1980s all over again, just without the aesthetics, hooliganism or good cocaine. Britain is an island of eternal recurrence, where the Tories engineer the destruction of critical industries, replace them with absolutely nothing and belittle you in the process as some sort of luddite unable to adapt to the modern world, throwing your dirty wooden clogs into the machinery in a futile protest.Alarm bells were already ringing when Rishi Sunak announced his “Job Support Scheme”, which will replace furlough and aims to cover 22 percent of workers’ wages – but only for jobs considered to be “viable”. What that means exactly is unclear.
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