Covids Costs

We have always known that as well as the obvious economic costs of the Covid-19  ....

Shops and Businesses Closing In Large
Numbers Are Just One Obvious Covid Impact

.... There would also be hidden costs (and it has to be said, some benefits), to this disaster.

Expanding The State

Perhaps not too strangely, many of Jeremy Corbyn's suggested policies would result in a vast increase in the number of public sector employees.

Rail Strikes Are Common In UK These Days

1. The railways should be renationalised.
2. The energy industry should be renationalised.
3. Public sector salary caps should be lifted.

These three alone would bring in thousands of new public sector employees, and add billions to the public sector bills that the tax payer has to support. So why does that matter?