The Harrods accounts are not just the store itself, but the GVA of the concessions that operate within the building (which are estimated from the staffing cost)
Now - where your attempted putdown is really badly wrong is in a comparison of GVA with the value of fish exports.
Has it occured to you that within the £2bn of fish exports will be:
- imported fish (we process in the UK)
- value of buying, selling and transporting fish...
These are the GVA of respectively
- the food manufacturing sector
- the distribution sector
- the wholsaleing sector
plus there will be many other business services GVA in fish exports
..... and
.... the best bit....
IN FUTURE THERE WILL BE HUGE CUSTOMS GVA FROM ALL THE NEW FORMS AND BREXIT BUREAUCRACY
(hint - this will be deduced from the income received by people who fish)
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UPDATE: After the latest data on excess deaths and people dying in hospitals, the up to date estimate of the number of UK deaths linked to coronavirus since mid-March is
84,800
This has been a bad week for virus cases, but a good week for excess deaths
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Excess deaths were low in England & Wales in the latest data and also in Scotland and Northern Ireland. It might be the effects of the lockdown or it might be a changing relationship between deaths in hospitals and excess deaths.
Daily pattern is v different to first wave
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Sadly, with the rapid rise in cases in the past two weeks and signs of acceleration, you'd have to be reckless to think the lower levels of excess deaths will continue
@christopherhope@GuidoFawkes Having been true but forgotton, it came up today and then Paul Stains started to pretend it was false, and then, when I demonstrated it wasn't, to suggest my facts were mere "conjecture"
Quiz yourself whether a Covid wealth tax is a good idea (if you want to do the quiz, don't read the column till later when we'd appreciate the clicks...
Simple questions: who should pay more in a wealth tax:
a) a rich young banker driving her new Lamborghini to and from her riverside penthouse; or
b) an NHS consultant convalescing after weeks on a ventilator having contracted Covid-19 trying to save lives?
How about:
a) the business owner whose motto is “you only live once” and plans for the government to look after him in retirement; or
b) the business owner who’s horrified by the idea of reliance on the state for his pension or social care?
After today's official figures on excess all cause mortality up to 6 Nov, my estimate of the current total of excess UK deaths linked to coronavirus stands at
75,000
Of these deaths, 70,528 have already happened. The rest are estimates to bring the data up to date
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While all cause mortality does not tell us exactly why people died, the figures are rising slower than deaths which doctors directly attribute to Covid-19 (not much, but a little)
And they are happening in the areas with high Covid-19 caseloads.
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Doctors certificates and regional correlations with the disease incidence (both in the sping and now) should be enough to convince rational people that the cause is Covid-19.
To argue otherwise requires quite some contrary evidence.
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