Tax rises for all

From what I can gather, I think driving instructors might be landed with significantly higher fuel costs shortly.  The government will inevitably have some kind of emergency budget in the not too distant where it will start to dawn on us all how they intend to start replenishing the depleted reserves. It seems so generous to receive payments while we stay at home, but it is of course our money that they are tinkering with.  Some people are clearly quite enjoying the experience of this lockdown, probably oblivious to what this economic depression will really mean.  This will come at great cost to us all.  You don't get away with preventing a large proportion of your perfectly healthy working population from leaving their home, without there being cataclysmic repercussions.  

And why?  Where is the evidence that preventing healthy adults from about 18 - 50 years of age was necessary to save lives?  I'm not suggesting that our vulnerable should not have been, and should not continue to be protected.  In fact, anyone who believes they are in any way vulnerable should take extra precautions.  The irony with our government response is that not only did they unnecessarily restrict the movements of reduced risk individuals (in their millions), but they actually increased the risks to the very people who were already at higher risk.  Booting out the elderly, vulnerable citizens in our population from their hospital beds and returning them to the high-risk location of their care homes, is utterly bonkers.  I'm not even sure about the ethics of stopping treatment of non-virus patients for things like cancer or a serious illness - how do medical people even justify that morally?  For all the mania about "protecting" the NHS, our Health Secretary presided on a strategy that will in all likelihood cause a deeply troubling tally of avoidable deaths.

Looking forward and hopefully with a bit more optimism, where are we on tests?  The system is showing theory test slots from 31/5 onwards, and the practical test side of things is still in deadlock.  Very uncertain times, I think all we can really do is be as transparent with our customers as possible.