In the NHS we are playing catch up. The lock down meant falling behind on patient care with long waiting lists already existing. We need funding invested in the NHS to deal with the backlog as well as dealing with the ongoing Pandemic. Nurses need a pay rise or they will be quitting in their droves. They have made their disappointment in your government clear.

Meanwhile you are paying vast sums in bail outs to fossil fuels and related companies: £67 billion bailouts to airlines, carmakers and oilfield engineers. While the independent committee that advises the government on climate change (CCC) tell us that no part of the globe is going to escape the climate crisis, and the UK must be prepared to tackle the inevitable threats of rising sea levels, coast erosion, flooding, heatwaves and epidemics of diseases, such as malaria. They also advise that at the same time, the UK needs to rapidly curtail its reliance on fossil fuels to meet global emission pledges.

There is no future in fossil fuel dependent industries. They will have to be scaled back, hopefully sooner rather than later. This means you are pouring our money into a carbon bubble that will burst like sub prime mortgage and we will all pay. And when it bursts the public will pay the price on loans that won't be repaid and pensions and futures lost.

We request that you have a frank consultation with these businesses and your climate change advisers. Discuss with other businesses how they see their future requirements; travel needs, business aviation which most admit will never return to its previous levels, commuting, car use and working from home. Make realistic plans about what the future projections of these businesses are, and their limitations which will be significant, and then use these projections to base your "lending" (or more likely direct funding because they won't be repaid unless the loans use accurate predictions of these industries' future viabilities, which are not being addressed with present planning). Blackrock this year changed direction and started their divestment from fossil fuels. Warren Buffett has dropped US aviation stocks stating the "world has changed" after Covid 19. Is our government the last to know, with this, as with the rest of our Pandemic responses. No more time for mistakes.

You risk our Planet's health and our economic stability by paying money into supporting this bubble that can only crash and take our tax-payers money, the public money with it. Public money you could be using to fund the NHS.

I am asking you now. Please, Give that money; our money, the tax payers money, the public purse; to the NHS and stop funding fossil fuels. Listen to your advisers on the CCC and follow a green recovery. 

And Save Lives instead of killing the Planet and risking our economy longer term with bad investments.