Predict the economy after the COVID 19 outbreak

Massive restructuring of the NHS and care will see tax at 40% for all

Oil production will be kept artificially low so £2 litre petrol

Smoking to be banned within 5 years

Massive increases in beer duty £6 a pint will be normal many pubs will shut

Supermarket tax on alcohol so less disparity between pubs will double prices

Smoking ??  Very doubtful , plenty of revenue from smokers ...

If this doesn't get weed legalized and therefore taxed, nothing will

Sports are going to get decimated

The EFL will have to be restructured with many clubs going either out of business or non league

Superleague going to struggle to keep going with 12

Rugby Union the 2nd tier will struggle as will the premier but lesser

Horseracing could lose courses depending on how the bookmaking industry gets on

Golf will even struggle due to lack of revenue from sponsors also air travel a major factor

The big USA sports NFL BBL and baseball should survive maybe some changes

house prices ?

Did I not read smokers may be better at fending it off than non smokers?
Might have to take it up. I've always felt there should be something in my left hand while I held my Kestrel Super in my right.

Ex-smokers seem to be as well protected as current smokers, so that looks to have been the canny way to go. Spend your twenties furiously puffing Rothmans, Camels, Gitanes, Pall Malls, depending where you were living; then give up at age 29 when you return to this country and can't afford them any more owing to the tax.

they need to get the economy back working so many of the above are non starters.

increase minimum wage to a decent level, scrap 5 week wait for universal credits


get folk back out, get them spending and we mend the economy so much quicker.




brexit, yikes, another blip on economy there, but we should recover even that given a further pumping of cash into the economy.

How is increasing the minimum wage going to get people back working when employers have no money left to pay them?

because it gets them off benefits

and if folk go out spending money then employers make enough to pay them


we need cash in the system, that will be the big drag

we can print money as others are doing it, so we dont lose v those countries.

indeed not to print cash may well see pound rise too high.

we need to get the cash quickly into the hands of those that will spend it, not those that will save it
or send it overseas offshore ....

sunak doing a decent job of opening up cash taps

Students going to be a problem will they still come here or anywhere else with the chance of another lockdown getting stranded etc

Will study from home be the norm if so that will financially ruin some universities the DMU being one

It wan't something structural in the economy that caused the present crisis like 2008 so could rebound quickly, I hope so, I f*cking hope so.