No More Daniel Blakes

Just as middle-class people having to go through Universal Credit ought to be the end of the present benefits regime itself, so the increase in unemployment ought to be the end of the day-to-day regime at the DWP depicted by Ken Loach. Yvette who?

The lockdown is still massively popular, and resistance is practically total to sending children back to school while the private schools are off until September, and while most MPs have no intention of darkening the door of the Palace of Westminster until October, after the dates of the tellingly cancelled Party Conferences.

None of the economic arguments for lifting the lockdown stacks up, and Rishi Sunak knows it. He has the means to alleviate a recession, or indeed to prevent one, as his record already shows that he understands. Recession is only ever a political choice.

In a sovereign state with its own free floating fiat currency, then a recession cannot happen unless, for whatever reason, the Government wants it to happen. It is not only that it need not happen except by that choice. Except by that choice, it cannot happen. Sunak already knows all of this.

The people who are stamping their feet are comment writers, and they already worked for home. Did you think that they went into the office every day? Columnists? Really? Their complaint is that the restaurants and the pubs are not open. That is all. But they are so accustomed to their own way that they cannot understand how that complaint has not reopened the pubs and the restaurants on the spot.