RedFox Blog: How Are Your Finances ?
Post 770 14/12/20
The household finances have taken a battering during this year. Some people have been furloughed and some have been made redundant. So the households up and down the UK have seen massive changes to their status. There is no getting away with it. Less income means no money and that means there is very little to spend at this Christmas time. If there was such a person as Father Christmas then many households would be praying for a better 2021. Households will next year be struggling to meet the bills and may even find themselves on the streets without any home to live in.
It is a nasty thought that street children may start to reappear on the streets of the UK when households lose their homes. But the crisis I doubt will be a “one off” as I expect the conservative government wants this to happen. The financial package that is available is inadequate anyway. There is no real support if for no reason of your own you are in a desperate need of hardship. But! like true Conservatives they are really not bothered if you are in need of it. If the boat sinks because you relied on the income then its up to you to get out of it. No help at all will come.
Meeting time
The electoral college met yesterday to cement Joe Biden as the next President of the United States. But Trump supporters are already out on the streets many armed to the teeth to try and stop the electoral college from meeting. There are so called faithless electors who actually might spoil the win. But hopefully democracy will win and the electoral college will elect joe Biden as the new president elect. This is a real issue and would be the first time that faithless electors went against the president elect. And this would undermine the democratic voice.
But just think what that would do to the democratic voice all over the world. The biggest democracy choosing to ignore the will of the people and electing the losing president as the new president. This would be a smack in the face for all countries that rely on a democratic showing from the US. It would demonstrate that there is no reason to have a democracy in the first place. And shows that all leaders can if they so wish cheat! If though the electoral college does elect joe Biden it shows that cheating cannot be seen to win. It is interesting times.