The Kingdom at the end of the Universe

In his second Hitch-Hiker's boo, The Restaurant at the end of the Uiverse, Douglas Adams describes a planet, Golgafrinchan, which had divided its society into three: A, B and C, and decided it could very well do without those in B.

So, a vast spaceship, the B Ark, was fired into space full of people whose job was things like advertising executives and telephone sanitisers.

Meanwhile, back on Golgafrinchan, all life was wiped out by a virus caught from an un-sanitised telephone. While on Earth, the survivors of the B Ark became our ancestors.

So far, so great.

IN Aexander Boris de Piffel Johnson, we have the captain of the B Ark in charge.

In charge, but with no plan.

And, in echoing the Golgafrinchan's, Johnson has decided that Britain can do without most of the C class; those who do work, and those who are left need to work harder or get a newer, better paid job. But not to worry as higher pay is coming as is higher productivity.

THere is no plan for the above.

Just mouthbreathing and emplty statements.

The Conference, loved it. The clown performing to a lobotomised audience, clapping like sealions, not caring what had been said.

Industry is less than happy.

As it is their fault that the country has high immigration, low wages, and they should bear the costs of higher wages so that everyone is richer and can spend more.

This is the plan, as it is.

Higher wages have to be paid for, and either through businesses bearing the costs (Johnson's "plan") or higher prices.

Higher prices means higher inflation, and so any wage rise will be negated by inflation. A quick look at Germany in the 1920s or Yugoslavia in the 1990s will show how great galloping inflation can be.

And when I say great, I mean shit.

So, on the horizon is higher fuel costs, higher taxes, higher National Insurance payments, higher food costs, fuel shortages, food shortages, raw material shortages, labour shortages.

On the labour shortages alone: empty jobs means less productivity, less NI paid, less taxes paid, less housing costs met, less spent on food and groceries. All of which will surpress the economy, holding the country back.

Johnson's "plan", will do the opposite of what he thinks and says, but the BBC reports it as facts, at least on the news bulletins, whilst their policital editor sang and drank with Michael Gove in a bar last night.

All in it together.

We will all pay, in the end.

But some animals are more equal than others.

I'm sure there was more to it than that, but all I can remember now.