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Boris Johnson, address to the nation 1st Jan 2022.
"We have all sacrificed so much to save lives & protect the NHS. You have done everything possible to protect your families & we, your government have likewise spent unimaginable amounts supporting you & your loved ones."
3/24
"Individually and together as a nation, we have paid a huge price for this.
Despite doing everything possible to provide support, millions have lost incomes, businesses and livelihoods; as a country, we are in debt that can never be repaid."
4/24
"When balancing saving lives or saving money, the decision was simple, we had to spend whatever it took.
We have borrowed from IMF, from friends, issued & sold bonds, & just like pawning family silver, we have sold large volumes of our assets & infrastructure."
5/24
"Our economy lies in ruins & we have reached the limits of our borrowing capacity.
We must however keep paying the UC& Universal Basic Income on which so many of us now depend. Without this, suffering will be unimaginable, the potential loss of life, too big to comprehend."
6/24
"In the west, the Chinese word for 'crisis' is often translated as 'opportunity' & yes, looking at it this way, we do have a way out, a window of opportunity, if you will.
We, like many other countries around the world have been offered, & must accept, a lifeline."
7/24
"To save our country & people from devastation, we must ask you to sacrifice further, but it is not really suffering.
Imagine how hard it was for our parents to own cars outright, yet for later generations, it was easier to lease cars & not have the burden of ownership."
8/24
"Think how hard it has been for most people to achieve home ownership and the instability that struggle brought to people's lives, yet in many other advanced countries the majority of people rent long-term and are happy. "
9/24
"Capitalism has failed to protect, and even feed, our most vulnerable in society.
When we needed it the most, capitalism turned its back on us and walked away.
That 'me first' approach is, after all, in its very nature the very opposite of community."
10/24
"For decades, inequality has caused resentment & unfairness in society.
Private ownership has resulted in a small number of people hoarding wealth and assets.
Runaway materialism has caused global climate catastrophes & irreparably damaged our natural environment."
11/24
"We have a chance to change this, we must build back better.
The opportunity we have is to relinquish private ownership, entirely, for the greater good.
All debt will be written off and all balances reset."
12/24
"You will, for the foreseeable future, be able to remain in your homes, but not as owners. Everyone who doesn't have a home, will in future, have one.
Cars will no longer be registered to one person, but will become shared assets, for the benefit of local communities."
13/24
"Equality and a good standard of living will come to all.
All assets of more than £5,000 in value will be registered & ultimately relinquished; the unfairness of inherited wealth, devoid of consideration for the colonial past and the discrimination it carries, shall end"
14/24
"This money shall be used to create a better society for all.
Please do not look at this new order for the world, as us losing anything.
Instead it is the admission fee for entrance into a civilized and utopian society where everyone has a value and a purpose."
15/24
"No, not losing anything at all, rather, alongside the introduction of mandatory vaccinations against covid and its variants, this is the way that our country and our people can survive, in fact thrive and move forwards together."
16/24
"Inequality shall be a relic of the past, you shall own nothing & you shall be happy.
It is inevitable that a small number of people will not agree with this way forward and will try to fight for their own selfish interests, to hoard wealth or to refuse the vaccine."
17/24
"Such rogues are a serious public health risk, a menace.
In the past, we tolerated some anti-vaccine propaganda and people who walk around selfishly without masks, when they don't have an exemption.
We cannot take these risks anymore."
18/24
"As we come through this pandemic, criminal sanctions & restrictions on civil liberties must be the price for such reckless & thoughtless behaviour.
It is for this purpose that we have established regional resettlement & reeducation camps to house this dangerous minority."
19/24
"In these camps, we shall keep these hazardous people isolated from the general vaccinated population of good citizens and hope, yes hope, that in time, they reconsider their conspiracy theories and their selfish habits."
20/24
"Credit ratings are full of unfairness & a new system shall begin in the form of a social score.
This shall be based on the positive impact you have on your communities, how you support Build Back Better initiatives & contribute to the new globally sustainable agenda."
21/24
"Business management can continue, although in time, licenses & scores will be issued based on environmental impact & corporate social responsibility.
Creative people with ideas to build back better & more efficiently shall be singled out for special support."
22/24
"As a proud member of the United Nations, I am pleased that we will have help from the blue helmets and that you will see them around at different times for the foreseeable future.
Please speak with them & engage, Chinese troops are after all, people just like us."
23/24
"Please make them feel welcome.
Never have I felt more proud of our country, more confident in our unity & never have I more clearly seen our path out of the darkness & into the light.
You shall own nothing, owe nothing, & you will be happy."
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24/24
"The process is to start without delay, we shall now begin to #BuildBackBetter with immediate effect."
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