WeekWatch for 1st June 2020
Balina Rai (Dhesi)
Wealth Management Consultant at Lawrence Neil Wealth Management Limited
At 8 o’clock last Thursday, the UK ‘Clapped for Carers’ for possibly the last time.
The weekly applause started as a way of acknowledging the sacrifices made by front-line workers. But it has come to mean more than that. It has reconnected us with our neighbours, and brought cohesion to communities that, before the crisis, rarely interacted. It has brought together a nation which, for the last four years, has been bitterly divided.
But all good things come to an end. The gesture has become too politicised, Annemarie Plas, the woman behind the idea, said last week. Meaningful recognition of our frontline workers must come from inside parliament, not the pavement outside Downing Street.
Plas isn’t the only one to fear the influence of politics: global markets ended a fortnight-long rally on Friday after tensions between the US and China came to the fore.