See my post above mate. For all his faults, Churchill grasped the nettle of WW2 and started an infrastructure project that would be picked up by Atlee to deliver the biggest transformation of wealth seen in this country in centuries (and the largest boom in capitalism in it's history).
That's what is required here. We need mass payments made to people who have to insulate. We need loans to businesses (particularly small businesses) to cope, requisitioning of private sector beds for the NHS, massive increases in spending in the NHS, a mass roll out of testing, investment in child care facilities, and huge pay rises to the minimum wage to obliterate child poverty.
That's before you get to the hundreds of billions required to stabilise the markets (as American have just done).
A decisive leader would have grasped that. See Roosevelt in America or Churchill here. As Roosevelt said, he wasn't a socialist but the saviour of American capitalism.
The sort of funding that is required can be done in part by borrowing, but would also require heavily redistributive taxes. The wealthy have grown so rich as to be unsustainable. It is time for them to pay some of the money they have been allocated back for the wider good.
They have no intentions of doing that though. It reminds me a little of the Roman Empire, Nero fiddling, with diseases and economic collapse intertwining to lead to an organic crisis the rulers have no idea what it means, never mind how to fix it.
