Being self employed, Dear Editor

Dear editor,
Mark Drakeford had promised the self-employed via the Economic ResilienceFund a discretionary £1,000 grant, or that’s how it seemed to come across.But alas that in practice has simply not happened. It was also hoped thatthere may actually be a third HMRC Self-Employment Income Support Scheme Grant. But yet again political rhetoric and nothing has arrived.
There is no parity. The tax payer is funding the extension of the Furlough scheme, for how long? it was meant to stop, then it continued. We should not have the furlough scheme in the first place, it is just to prop up failing businesses. Why therefore should we support the Furlough scheme and not support the self-employed: that are at least still working. Most of us who are self-employed have continued to work throughout these pointless lock downs, and the Furlough have stopped at home doing nothing being funded by the tax-payer.
Let’s support the self-employed who do actually work.

Yours sincerely,

Karl-James Langford

Gwlad Welsh Parliament candidate