- Okay, the numbers are out, and they prove
that London is paying a steep price
for this one size, fits all lockdown.
The REC, which is the recruitment
and employment Confederation has said
that overall throughout the country,
there are currently 1.4 million job listings.
Now, job listings are a proxy for consumer
confidence and for employer confidence.
The more job listings, the more confident
they are in the economy.
And right now in London, those jobless scenes
are down some 18.7% from the crisis.
Now, up in the Northwest, they are up by 36.8%,
which goes to show you that we see wildly,
disparate numbers when it comes to the economic
survival of the country, when it comes
to the outbreaks, when it even comes
to the age groups of who's being affected
by the virus.
And yet, our Prime Minister,
and our Mayor of London are selling
you and me on this one size fits all solution.
All they have is a hammer, so everything
looks like a nail, and it's lockdown,
lockdown, lockdown.
And we saw the Mayor of London crusade
for this entire city to be locked down
even before the numbers showed it.
And we see our Prime Minister
that wants to lock every single place down
because of the infection rates that are happening
in certain areas of the country.
Now this week, I had Dr. Martin Kulldorff,
who penned the Great Barrington Declaration.
That said, "There's 1000 full difference
between the vulnerability of young people
compared to old people to the virus,
and therefore we need to treat
those people differently."
I'm saying the same needs to be done
for the different locations in the country,
they all need to be treated differently,
stimulated differently, and again,
use the science based approach
so we have a proportionate response to the virus,
that is not being done.
And right now London is paying the price.
And we're seeing that happen in different cities.
And my point is this, whether you're in Liverpool,
or Manchester, or Leicester, or in Wales,
or in Northern Ireland, or in Scotland,
you all need a different strategy
to solve the problems you're facing
from an economic standpoint, from the virus,
for everything that's happening,
and that's what we need to make sure
that our leaders do.
Tomorrow, I'm gonna be sharing on my vlog
exactly what's happening sector by sector,
and the numbers are gonna shock you.
How far numbers have dropped for people
like personal trainers, chefs,
and how employments gone up
for truck drivers and nurses,
and yet we have a one size fits all
furlough policy where every single company
is given furlough.
Your tax dollars are being wasted
by being given to employers who are doing fine,
and yet other people are suffering
and they're not getting the aid they need.
We must have a proportionate
response to the virus.
And that's why we need leadership
that has more tools than just a hammer.
They have more tools so they can deal
by a sector by sector, by a region by region,
and make sure that we can get this country
back to work.
And that's why I keep talking about this.
And it's one of my key policies
as your next Mayor of London,
to get London back to work,
to use science based decision making,
and make sure we have a proportional
response to the virus.
And by going through these data,
and really understanding the numbers,
I promise you as your next mayor, to go ahead
and do that targeted relief,
whether it comes from an inflexion
point of view, or an economic point of view,
so we can get through this crisis
and get everyone back on track.
Please leave me your comments below.
Tell me if you think we should do
a sector by sector intervention,
when it comes to the economic reasons,
or with the infection.
I wanna hear your comments.
And of course, share this video
on to someone who needs it.
Tomorrow, I'll be talking about specific sectors,
what we see the numbers actually telling us
they're down or up, and what we can do about it.
Again, I wanna get us all back to work
because if you strengthen the economy,
it solves all of our other problems.
It solves our younger generation,
our mental health, even our physical health,
it gives us the resources and we can use
those to survive.
Again leave me your comments below,
and go ahead, and should go to our website
BrianForMayor.London, and get that fresh swag.
You know what's up.
And I'll be coming at you
with more of these videos.
I appreciate your help.
We are winning this race,
and we plan on taking London in a new direction.