O/T:- ⚠️Impressed with the leadership [The UK Party Politics Thread]

[TheBlackHorse]

... has anyone seen Snobhead 1 compliment the government on anything?

[Elite_Pie]

... has anyone seen Snobhead 1 compliment the government on anything?

Yes. I complimented them on the speed the Nightingale hospitals were built, it was one of the few proactive decisions they've made although the use of them since is open to question. I also complimented them on the 80% furlough package, which I thought was pretty generous. Hopefully the vaccine programme will be another area for praise, but that's still in it's infancy.

The list of failures is far longer however:

Slow to impose lockdowns
Desperately slow to implement a track and trace system
Slow to enforce the wearing of face coverings
Slow to understand the risk posed in care homes
Slow to test incoming travellers
Slow to order PPE, wasting billions and lining the pockets of cronies
Vague, ambiguous and muddled advice
An unprecedented number of U-turns
Allowing the chief advisor to go unpunished after breaking the rules, to the point of actually lying on his behalf

[BanjoPie]

Your drift seemed to be that we shouldn't criticise the government.

I don't see how that will make things better. Do we all have to pretend that they're making the right decisions?

Elite, my ‘drift’ was in hindsight perhaps a poor attempt to simulate JP’s style- hence the getting angrier & the Capitals towards the end of my post. Yes, anyone and everyone has the right to criticise the Government and /or any other political party and I would defend that right.

[Elite_Pie]

Elite, my ‘drift’ was in hindsight perhaps a poor attempt to simulate JP’s style- hence the getting angrier & the Capitals towards the end of my post. Yes, anyone and everyone has the right to criticise the Government and /or any other political party and I would defend that right.

In that case, we are in agreement.

[Old_pie]

Yes. I complimented them on the speed the Nightingale hospitals were built, it was one of the few proactive decisions they've made although the use of them since is open to question. I also complimented them on the 80% furlough package, which I thought was pretty generous. Hopefully the vaccine programme will be another area for praise, but that's still in it's infancy.

The list of failures is far longer however:

Slow to impose lockdowns ☑
Desperately slow to implement a track and trace system ? Unsure of value of this really
Slow to enforce the wearing of face coverings ☑
Slow to understand the risk posed in care homes ☑ NHS sending old people back from hospital verging on criminal
Slow to test incoming travellers ☑
Slow to order PPE, wasting billions and lining the pockets of cronies ? Panic buying rather than slow?
Vague, ambiguous and muddled advice ☑
An unprecedented number of U-turns ☑
Allowing the chief advisor to go unpunished after breaking the rules, to the point of actually lying on his behalf ☑ ☑

[Mapperleypie]

100,000 dead but at least Johnson was able to ruffle up his hair before announcing it.

[BanjoPie]

This thread is going on a bit

[upthemaggies]

They should get this guy to do the press conferences, more honesty and sense here than the government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3kW5J7PDi8

[Elite_Pie]

100,000 dead but at least Johnson was able to ruffle up his hair before announcing it.

More than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he took "full responsibility" for the government's actions, saying: "We truly did everything we could."

I know Johnson is a serial liar, but actually saying "We truly did everything we could" has to be his most sickening one yet.

Boris Johnson is a despicable human being.

[TheBlackHorse]

... well that's the price of defending the NHS sacred cow ... 50,000 deaths within the last 2/3 months are related to Care Homes (mustn't have them die in hospitals/don't mention the Nightingales) ...