Did you ever think that there would, come a time when for a number of people their only contact is through a program such as Facebook, yet that seems to be what is happening now. For a large number of people it gives them something to look forward to rather than just sitting and staring at a television set.

I am convinced that if this government had had the sense to see what was coming we would not be in the situation we are in. If we had acted promptly instead of sitting on our backsides debating the issue the virus would not have taken such a hold.

It seemed strange to me that the country it all originated in is in a far better condition than many others.

We now have the situation where China seems to be manufacturing practically everything because other countries are in a state of lockdown.

There were a number of greedy companies in the Western world that thought they were very clever by selling their outmoded designs to the Chinese. This gave the Chinese an understanding of the techniques behind the Western worlds designs. I don’t think that the so-called experts really understood what China was capable of. Their approach to problems is entirely different to ours, there was one instance when all the manufacturing drawings, got muddled, up our approach would have been for someone to sit down and spend ages sorting them, the Chinese approach was to gather a number of people into a large area and give each one of them some of the drawings, then one person would stand at the front and call out the number in numerical order and the drawing would then be held up then collected and placed on a table. Working this way 500 drawings were put in numerical sequence in a matter of minutes rather than days.

The point I’m making is that to conquer a problem the Chinese pour effort and manpower into it, now that is something that would never be done in the Western world.

Getting back to social networking we also have the case were a large number of people are working from home using some of the social networking tools such as Skype and Zoom, if firms had any sense they would investigate this as a future way of working, it would reduce the amount of office space which would mean lower heating bills as well as lower business rates. But where we have political figures being offered lucrative posts entirely due to the contacts they have and certainly not due to any commercial knowledge we don’t stand an earthly.

In the heyday of Victorian engineering they just got on with the job with very little interference from the politicians. There certainly was none of this political correctness and certainly no racial bias people had a job to do and they just got on with it to the benefit of all.