Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
And if you don't trust the people, how do you make anything work?
I'd love to see your answer to that question.

And how would changing the government suddenly change the number of test or the number of labs or the number of people complying with the instructions?
Or make the IT specialist suddenly come up with a brilliant app they couldn't make the day before?
And if you shut down the economy again completely who is going to pay for it all?
If you think that all that will happen then you live in a dream world.
No government could have done much better in an unknown environment, but it is easy to stand on the sidelines and carp.
Mind as this board is for football supporters we should expect that to be second nature to them.
Changing the Government now won't make much difference, because the damage has been done in many respects. Maybe a different Government would have made a difference beforehand though. The Conservatives, under Theresa May, mainly ignored the Cygnus Exercise carried out in 2016 and so we faced up to Covid with inadequate facilities and a lack of the required PPE, but I'm certain she would not have gone off on holiday during the month before we went into a national lockdown due to a Pandemic and that she would have attended at least some of the five Cobra meetings Johnson didn't turn up for.

Any Government besides this one would not have got themselves into a position where they ended up falling in behind a special advisor whose excuse for breaking lockdown rules was absurd - the attitude of the public changed after Dominic Cummings' drove almost the length of England to "isolate" and his eye testing fifty mile drive through the Durham countryside, Cummings wouldn't have got anywhere near the sort of position he now occupies under any of the other Prime Ministers of the recent past.

It was this Government that took the decision to move elderly people from hospitals into care homes back in March, this Government that hesitated in bringing in the March lockdown, this Government which has failed to back up grandiose schemes and claims with actual achievement (e.g. the App and track and trace).

I don't blame those who voted for this Government for what has happened this year in terms of Covid, nobody could have seen what was coming in December when we voted, but there were plenty who did as January went into February and February into March, sadly the UK Government conjured up images of Nero fiddling while Rome burned. We've just been unlucky that at the time the worst pandemic in a century hit, we happened to have a Cabinet full of nobodies who were being rewarded for their loyalty over Brexit and, in particular, a Prime Minister wholly unsuited for this sort of crisis.