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Wednesday, 18 November 2020

A quick win for Boris

 


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As soon as everyone has their windows open and winter is upon us, Boris could propose an immediate impact on number 7 in his Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution.

7. Homes and public buildings: Making our homes, schools and hospitals greener, warmer and more energy efficient, whilst creating 50,000 jobs by 2030, and a target to install 600,000 heat pumps every year by 2028.

He could call it the Now Close Your Windows One Point Plan.

4 comments:

  1. That's not going to hit his target for creating 250,000 new jobs, though. We need a new team of local authority window closers, a bit like the old lamp-lighters. Or maybe he could offer subsidies for a quarter of a million rich people to employ butlers and maids.

    Either way, it's a certainty that there will be enough unemployed people around to do these jobs.

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  2. Opening Widows is a sore point here. I can't make some of the software work as well as it should...

    Boris is proving to be a big disappointment now. I haven't seen any BBC for a week, and still feel bad!

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  3. During the Spanish flu it was found that opening the all the wards' windows improved survival rates. Plus ca change...

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  4. Sam - and many of those unemployed people could be those who once had a viable business.

    Scrobs - Boris just gets worse and worse.

    Ed - it may be that these days too many people spend too much time indoors. Even before the coronavirus mess we thought supermarkets were a source of coughs and colds and possibly flu.

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