MasterOfCoin
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As a aside, or slight digression, in view of topic snippets in some of the above recent posts, this gem from the past:Compared to the USA, the UK is like the former East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Around 60% people are compliant and will blindly do anything that the government tells them (other than vote to stay in the EU) and will snitch on their neighbours at the drop of a hat, 20% are resistant but will still comply because of the fear that the Stasi will illegally fine them (or their neighbour dobs them in), 20% are resistant and will find ways of avoiding being fined whilst still breaking the rules.
However, we must take into account the honeymoon period (phoney depression) we are currently in, the vast majority are either still working or are receiving 80%+ pay to sit at home on holiday for 3 months with the expectation of a job still being there at the end of it.
What happens when the generous furlough period ends, the job evaporates and there is no free money any longer?
The 60% will rapidly become the 40% then 20%. The honeymoon period ends and all hell begins to break loose. You can't really blame people for being in the 60% at the moment, they are blinded by the whole situation and are relying on govt to get things back to where it was, however, the prospects of that happening are looking slim, how long will faith in the (UK) government last?
One of the Field Commanders appointed to oversee the German Occupation of The Channel Islands during WW2, reflected in his recollections of the period, that having initially been rather apprehensive of undertaking the task assigned to him, soon found that far from resisting their new occupying overlords, he found it frequently nearly impossible to get any of his pressing work done due to the constant stream of sniveling traitors from the local populace queuing up to see him in order to grovel and seek favour with their new masters and stab their neighbours in the back at every opportunity.
The sheeple are fickle as well as compliant.