"even though we have a government who appear to bungling along we still do not live in fear for our lives, which I suppose is one good thing."

We have a government who sacked 60,000 care workers last autumn because they refused a covid vaccination, we have a spineless opposition, supposedly on the side of the workers, who supported the sacking of these people, who were doing an important, difficult, low paid job that not many would fancy. The reason they gave was that unvaxxed care workers could infect those in their care, which was a nonsense, it was already known that the vaccines offered no protection against infection or transmission. They then threatened unvaxxed NHS staff with the sack, but not until March, when the busiest period for the NHS had passed, then they backed down when they were faced with sacking 80,000 plus doctors, nurses and ancillary workers, the legislation was rescinded.

There is no better word for a government and opposition which treats NHS and Care Workers in this fashion than scum. And I wouldn't be too complacent, if this scum will come for your livelihood, which they did, they might be coming for your lives next, it's not that big a leap.