O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[swaledale]

I agree balance is everything, RA. Tell me where Swale has given the government any credit, unless you class admiring the government for not getting in the way of the scientists and the NHS, as being credit.

Unlike myself and yourself, who have praised and criticised the government at times, just with different thresholds on both.

My succinct reply on the whole issue would be this

We have very high death rates from a global pandemic and the government’s handling of that pandemic shares the same marks of ignoring the science, promising big and delivering late and small. What is saving us at the moment is that when the scientists dig in their heels even this government does the right thing (late), that UK science (not under government guidance or leadership) has delivered vaccines and that the NHS has been too strong and wonderful an institution to allow us to die in even greater numbers. The bright spots in the pandemic are the areas where government has been unable to cock it up and where public service has remained the bedrock of how the system works despite this government’s incompetence.


Now even a broken clock is right twice a day! I give Johnson and this Government some credit for the success of the vaccination programme so far? But only up to a point, they took a gamble, it paid off, sometimes lady luck smiles on even the dimmest of epople and Johnson is very dim!

The Eu were more cautious in approval (which may be a good thing) and very slow in procurement but the end game may be the same. but if people forget the utter incompetence that has gone before this point then I'd say they deserve the government they get.

[AdiSalisbury]

Excellent news! Another step closer to safety for the Rams

[Geoff Parkstone]

I waited in turn, didn't try to jump it ☺️

[AdiSalisbury]

I waited for my GP to contact me, it was very easy, they just sent a text with a link for me to book. They'll text me again in a few weeks. I'm amazed at how such a huge and complex logistical operation has gone so smoothly. There's a lot of background people pulling miracles we should be thankful for.

[Andy_Faber]

I waited for my GP to contact me, it was very easy, they just sent a text with a link for me to book. They'll text me again in a few weeks. I'm amazed at how such a huge and complex logistical operation has gone so smoothly. There's a lot of background people pulling miracles we should be thankful for.

I keep saying that too, its a bloody miracle too as far as I'm concerned but everytime I do Jeanne Mockford raises from the dead and ah-buts me. Anyway, I will be very grateful tomorrow

[Andy_Faber]

Back on subject, just been jabbed, the process couldn't have been more efficient. Well done one and all

[Geoff Parkstone]

Agreed rA


And its not who you think either. But I doubt BJ would contest another election. He will be burned out by then having to deal with covid and brexit: someone else will be given the task of defeating a perhaps revived Labour party.

[swaledale]

Agreed rA


And its not who you think either. But I doubt BJ would contest another election. He will be burned out by then having to deal with covid and brexit: someone else will be given the task of defeating a perhaps revived Labour party.

Burned out how exactly? its not as if he actually does much apart from waffle on, all the legwork is done by others, he just appears in public as a face, doubt he even knows much of the detail and sure as hell hasn't a clue as to how things actually work! The only effort he has ever made and the only thing he cares about is whats good for him.

If he isn't around at the next election, it will only be because whichever faction in the Tory party has the power will have decided he is no longer an electoral plus!

Now a combination of the economic reality of Brexit coupled with the cockup he has presided over with Covid, may be enough to make the Tories press the eject button, but the likelihood of a significant majority of the ****wit electorate actually working out he is a lying lazy incompetent **** (despite so much clear evidence of this fact) is at the moment quite small.

[Geoff Parkstone]

R rate at its lowest for 9 months.
Really good news and with the jabs in full swing, maybe we can have a summer holiday?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/coronaviru...211016197.html

I have to say I hope not, unless you are planning to holiday in Skegness or Blackpool

[Geoff Parkstone]

I will be interested to see a rebuttal of the above, Tricky. I'm no Thatcher apologist either but the differences between the conflicts are legion, not least that Blair was simply a lickspittle to the Americans.