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Unlocking the UK
Background.
The UK needs to have a strategy for relaxing quarantine restrictions that has elements of
- Graduated / Phased unlock -some services are less/more essential than others so we need a graduated
- Balancing simplicity with detail
- Allowing flexible/dynamic lockdown/unlock as needed
Concept
There are many types of business/organizations ( and I am sure i have missed some ) I would allocate each sector a “grade” like
- A – essential for individual life
- B – good for community health
- C – nice to have
- D – luxuries that can wait
I would also define phases of lock down.
- Red = Closed
- Orange = Partial opening ( with social distancing )
- Green = Open with social distancing
People would look up which letter “their” sector is in and each week the government says which phase the different letters are in.
At the moment the ‘A’ would be green but everything else would be red. Overtime as the unlock progressed more and more sectors would go green.
I believe that sectors can be broadly split into “Services” and “Physical Goods” and that within those groups there are different types (rows) and stages ( columns )
Services
| Collages, Research & Training | Strategy & Management | Service Delivery | |
| Health / Care Services | A | A | A |
| Emergency Services( inc Police ) | A | A | A |
| Utilities | B | A | A |
| Coroner / Undertakers | B | A | A |
| Repair / Maintenance | B | B | B |
| Transport | C | B | A |
| Governments / Courts / Prisons | C | B | A |
| Finance / Insurance | D | C | A |
| News / Public infomation | D | C | A |
| Hair Dresser / Pedicures | D | C | B |
| Remote Entertainment | D | C | B |
| Construction and property sales/moves | D | C | B |
| Leisure / Sports | D | C | C |
Physical Goods
| Manufacturing/ Generation | Logistics (Storage and Distribution) | Sales / Retail | Support /Processing (Online) | WasteDisposal | |
| Food | A | A | A | A | A |
| Pharmaceutical | A | A | B | B | A |
| Clothing ( inc PPE ) | A | A | B | B | B |
| Garden items | B | B | B | B | A |
| Education and Crafts | B | B | B | B | B |
| Business items | B | B | B | B | B |
| Household items | D | C | C | C | A |
Laws and Taxation
We need to encourage businesses and society to adopt a new normal, and we need to recoup the money that has been thrown at covid. We need to balance physical health, mental health and the economy I’d make changes to taxation as follows
- I’d have a tax on “offices” designed to have companies support remote / working from home. I’d want to encourage flexible working where people could work from home or from a local hot-desk hub.
- I’d have income tax bands based on the ABCD categories listed in the tables above
- I’d say every year somebody works in the Health/Care or emergency services that the government writes off a proportion of their ( student or credit ) debt . The goal being to encourage people to work in key services for at least a few years
- I’d abolish national insurance and roll that into income tax. I’d increase VAT but ensure it did not apply to food/clothes/utilities. That way you would be taxed on “non essentials” that you purchased
Make mentoring deductible for corporation tax – inspired by @Lord_Sugar
I read Lord Sugars speech at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=159423317411506 and got to thinking.
Companies can claim capital expenses and R&D as deductibles for corporation tax. I believe that by extension companies should be able to claim a tax refund of up to 20% of the salary of a mentor who spends a minimum 20% of their time mentoring a registered apprentice.
Business essentials
- Understand & control your costs and your market, both will evolve and so must you.
- Avoid ambiguity in communications, misunderstandings will hurt you.
- Hire the right people, use them efficiently, reward them appropriately.
- Control quality or it will control you.
- Work hard, play hard, rest hard. Forget any of these at your peril
Ethics, Secrets and Lies
Often i may using publicly available data infer or guess other details that may or may not be true. I see no problem with sharing those inferences or analysis with people that have the same access to facts as myself provided i am clear that those are inferences and opinion and are not fact. I may at some point learn some secret that confirms or denies my opinions, but that does not effect the opinions that i share if asked by those not privy to the same confidential information. I will not lie. and thus sometimes may chose silence or feigned ignorance. I may at times nudge people to talk together, or suggest directions for investigation or development based on perceived shared goals. While i may at times be seen as an instigator I believe that my legacy is as a facilitator. I refrain from doing harm, except where it is necessary. I don’t take sides. I come to an opinion and choose where to stand. Wether that is in the same place as others is a consequence of that judgement. I will state as fact information I know to be untrue.
Meeting efficiency
Meeting efficiency is inversely proportional to the log of the number of people.
People I dislike
- People that cannot say “I was wrong” or “I am sorry”.
- People that cannot say “I don’t know” and that instead make up lies.
- People that take credit for other peoples hard work and innovation.