Times have set out to undermine Johnson big time over last few months. I've little doubt it's inspired by a current cabinet minister.
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Why not let it play out to it's inevitable conclusion? Forest fires in Australia, coronavirus and Michael Gove becoming PM does seem to fit together. At least Boris is lazy enough to allow his lies to become known...
Does anyone have access to the Telegraph? Seen a twitter thread which has suggested UK government put pressure on Cheltenham to go ahead but do not know whether it's accurate or an interpretation of following article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/racing/2...enham-proceed/
We are like a third world country.I heard an allegation today that the UK Government let PPE stocks run down before the virus.
Our key workers are LIONS led by Donkeys..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...l-hits-80.html
Just imagine the reaction if it had been Prime Minister Corbyn who had not bothered to turn up for the five meetings.
Bleating? LMFAO.
Pointing out the obvious - except to you - that this is orchestrated from within the cabinet. I've little doubt Gove is settling scores.
The fact the Times article has been comprehensively debunked, as has an FT one is also interesting. Newspaper industry dying on arse, looking for headlines, TV media full on bozos like Peston...
We're at the stage where media muppets and plebs claim to know more of the medical side than CMO, deputy CMO et al.
I don't think Murdoch cares whether we have a loose cannon as PM, in fact he would almost certainly prefer it as it would help sell more papers / generate more website hits. He couldn't give a shit how well run the country is, what he doesn't want is any PM who would seek to curtail his influence.
Not trying to defend anyone in particular, but just read in one of today's papers that Care Homes should not be blaming the government for lack of PPE.
Most are privately run and charge around £50K a year for each resident. Following a UK pandemic exercise in 2016 they were told to keep adequate PPE. Of course that would be at their own expense.....so what happens? Nothing
I guess the only way to "tell" privately run bodies to establish and maintain adequate supplies of PPE is through regulation which would have been considered "nanny state" if anything like that was brought forward. Without it as you say it would be left to individual organisations to consider what was adequate against their own profit margins.
It is an area of personal pertinence. My mother has recently moved into a home after a period in hospital and last night my father-in-law left his care home to move to hospital as his rising temperature was giving cause for concern.
Not in the slightest, Monkfish. I'm getting personal because your views are f**king dangerous. You're still in denial about the severity of Covid-19 and we're halfway through April and approximately 17,000 have died from it in hospitals already. Potentially a lot more to add to that from care homes.
This messageboard isn't my life. My partner, my daughter and my family are my life and I'm worried that people like you are going about as normal when everyone else is making sacrifices to lessen the risk of losing any of our loved ones.
What the f**k is it going to take for you to start taking this seriously?
I haven't a clue what the above post was about. As I said you don't like the fact I'm not buying into every single bit of information we're being told. I safe distance like 90% of others but I'm not really interested in your personal family details, so please refrain. Keep posting, and don't forget to put the * in those swear words..
You can laugh if you like, but you're bleating just like the Government are - see Duncan Smith's outrage at being asked the sort of question anyone defending a Government should be asked in the current situation and the use of what is supposed to be a public service information website to post their "comprehensive debunking" (I must have got it wrong because I spent about half a century thinking those two words meant something completely different to what you seem to believe they do).
Tell it like it is - a lion when it comes to telling it like it is about those on one side of the political spectrum and as gentle as a lamb when it comes to those on the other side.
Think it's fair to have a read and see the claims and counter claims: https://healthmedia.blog.gov.uk/2020...sight-article/Quote:
Government responses to damning newspaper stories have a distinct whiff of Cummings & are achingly long but they should of course be read. Their primary purpose, though, is not to establish truth but to give the blindly faithful something to wave about. That’s what Cummings does - https://twitter.com/mrjamesob
Hopefully an independent report is also looking into it so we have clearer idea what is going on. Meanwhile this:
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Spoken to lots of NHS staff this wkend about PPE. Some trusts in a good place, some in a v bad one. One theme though is that most have no confidence in Public Health England’s PPE advice: they think it’s being chopped and changed according to supply (or lack thereof),not science - https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/st...64173833195528
You're quite right. My sister-in-law who spent 30+ yrs in the NHS and then in the Care Industry says exactly the same. It's always been their responsibility for such matters but now they see the opportunity for a bit of free PPE instead of forking it out themselves. There are 22,000 care homes in the UK. How the hell they expect the Govt. to get PPE to all those is a mystery
You can carry that to every person working in every job in the country. But if the government passed legislation to say these care homes should keep this stuff and now they still had insufficient people would still die and the governmet would still be getting the blame for not having sufficient to cover the care homes failure. If a construction company failed to give a worker the correct PPE and he died would you blame the government for not having given it to him instead?
The real point about PPE in care homes is that it is to protect the people who work there not the inmates. (Sorry can't think of the appropriate word) so they woud still be dying anyway.