no no no no no.
Tories bad Labour good.
you should read the memo
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if wales' response to the pandemic had been "perfect" how much lower do you think the death rate per capita would have been than England, given that many of the measures to address the virus were in the UK government's control.
10% 15%
probably not much higher, given that the UK government failed on border control, test and trace, eat out to help out, etc.
we'll the death rate in Wales is currently 8% lower than England.
despite an older, poorer population in Wales, with more underlying health problems.
Er, I explained that the WAG wanted to act, but they were prevented from doing so by a UK Government Treasury decision, so Welsh Government decision making on health was compromised - you're just flailing about as you always do when you have one of your funny turns on here.
Ahem...
Who was responsible for stockpiling PPE in the event of a pandemic? Was it PHW?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...0-in-six-years
Wales couldn't lockdown early for a number of reasons. Perhaps the main one being as the UK govt. was responsible for furlough. As a Tory and a constant critic of locking down, surely even you can see that making businesses close without financial support would have caused further devastation to people's lives and livelihoods? The UK govt. played the pandemic down and dragged their feet until the end of March 2020. That's on them!
Also, didn't the Covid bill get passed into law after the lockdown to grant the WAG more powers over Wales' response? Before that, it appears they legally couldn't close the border... Just as Scotland couldn't.
In April 2020 Wales said they'd follow the national approach to track and trace. Ok then... What would you have had them do in that situation and at that time when the UK govt. was going on about a "world beating" system they were implementing and spending fecking billions of pounds on. No, you're not having that one. The money for it was coming from Westminster and they spent it on lining their mate's pockets.
I will concede on the Stereophonics gig as that does seem to be something that could have been stopped. They will have to own that one and the consequences thereof.
After all of that... Which one of us appears to be confused?
if the issue was one of public health then WG should have made a decision regardless of the economic consequences. There was no reason WG couldn't have invoked a Welsh lockdown. It is possible to have a lockdown without HMT support. Its crazy to suggest otherwise.
Sage scientist Linda Bauld says a further 50k people could die before this crisis is over. If that happens does anyone think the bumbling idiot will then decide it's time to resign? .........fat chance!
John McDonnell makes the salient point "After 100,000 have died, the reality is we have a Prime Minister critically unsuited to a time of crisis". It begs the question: what exactly is he suited for?
That's your opinion (although I highly doubt it's your actual opinion).
What about the bit about the WAG not being able to legally close the border before those powers were granted in the Covid act?
Also, regarding the Stereophonics gig...
This is in the Coronavirus Act 2020:
'Powers regarding public gatherings and premises
The Act gives ministers, including in the devolved administrations, the power to restrict or prohibit gatherings or events, and the power to close or restrict access to premises. The minister can only use this power if they have made an official declaration that the virus constitutes a “serious and imminent” threat to public health, and that using the powers would either help to control the transmission of the virus, or would facilitate the most appropriate deployment of medical/emergency resources.'
Somebody please explain to me why that the act gave these powers to devolved ministers if they already had this power?
I suggest that almost anybody else could have done a better job than Boris Johnson.
Scandal after scandal after scandal.
You can argue whether Labour's response would have been great, but to suggest it would have somehow been worse than this pile of human excrement is astonishing.
Ah the old Corbyn , Abbott argument comes out.