The only government that's important is the current one imo. The past governments, of which ever party, or those that weren't elected are irrelevant. All we should want is the best from whoever's in power, I don' think we're getting that at the moment.
I tend to agree for the most part. The performance of any government should be assessed in light of the particular set of circumstances that they have had to deal with. Unfortunately, many people want to assess it through the prism of party bias. Not only does that lead to a skewed assessment but it also, inevitably, leads to comparison with previous governments in order to inject some balance back into the argument.
Public Inquiry Report | October 2021 HOME DOCUMENTS PUBLIC INQUIRY REPORT | OCTOBER 2021 SHARE Overview On 12 May 2021, Boris Johnson announced a statutory public inquiry into the UK Government’s handling of the pandemic and that it would begin in Spring 2022. This report outlines the key findings and recommendations made by the APPG on Coronavirus, highlighting the importance of starting the public inquiry as soon as possible. It is essential that the public inquiry publishes its interim findings within two years, and importantly, before the next UK general election. Thus, the UK Government must urgently set out a timetable for the inquiry to begin and in turn, report its findings. Recommendations This report is based on the findings of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus' 24th hearing held on 15 June 2021, where the APPG heard evidence on the case for holding a statutory public inquiry into the UK Government’s management of the pandemic, including on the scope and the structure that such an inquiry might require. Key Findings The UK has suffered one of the worst health and wealth outcomes of comparable countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is imperative that the UK public, institutions, the Houses of Parliament, devolved administrations and the UK Government understand how this happened in the UK.
having the lefty SNP boost the figures didn't help any, and i didnt hear anything from Liebour about what they recommended action they would take about the hoards of unchecked dinky divers coming in and how many hit the beach and did a runner, but then they are only good at mouthing off, with no solutions to put forward, only looking to try and gain points scoring patter
Well as it happens I was living in London at the time, and I was one of the million March about not going to war in Iraq, as I thought the likelihood of WMDs hitting the UK was bollocks. B' Liar was totally wrong to back Bush. However as this thread is about how useless Bonko is (even an important Parliamentary Cttee. agrees with that assessment). I am not sure castigating Blair, is any defence of Bonko??
The news this morning shows how bad this government has been with this pandemic, pretty dire really but I think everybody new that, although they do say the vaccine roll out was a success.
Blaming Corbyn or Blair for mistakes now is like blaming Moyes for our defeat at Portsmouth. This government has been in power long enough to have made plans to deal with current events. Russia offered long terms energy contracts which we refused and decided to 'play the markets' as if we're in the stock exchange. We seem to just have a series of kneejerk reactions and very little forward planning. As with school meals there are too many U turns which make people nervous and now ministers openly and publicly contradicting each other. Farmers, steel production leaders, etc, are begging for decisions to clarify things. That's difficult when the PM is on holiday again. The MP's report on the flawed handling of the COVID crisis is out today ... ... no doubt Corbyn's fault as well
The opening lines tells anybody with half a brain that it would have been the same for any government in charge. It's a 50/50 report that says the scientists are to blame too. The UK's failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early in the pandemic was one of the worst ever public health failures, a report by MPs says. The government approach - backed by its scientists The report said this was based on dealing with a flu pandemic, and was done on the advice of its scientific advisers on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage). Although to some degree other parts of Europe were guilty of this too, the MPs said. But the report by the cross-party group said there had been successes too - in particular the vaccination programme. It described the whole approach - from the research and development through to the rollout of the jabs - as "one of the most effective initiatives in UK history". "The veil of ignorance through which the UK viewed the initial weeks of the pandemic was partly self-inflicted," said the report. The advice from scientists changed on 16 March 2020, but it was only a week later that a lockdown was announced. "It was a deliberate policy - proposed by official scientific advisers and adopted by the governments of all of the nations of the UK. "It is now clear that this was the wrong policy, and that it led to a higher initial death toll than would have resulted from a more emphatic early policy. In a pandemic spreading rapidly and exponentially, every week counted." The MPs also highlighted how ministers in England rejected scientific advice to have a two-week "circuit-breaker" in the autumn. They said it was impossible to know whether that would have prevented the second lockdown in November, although they pointed out it had not in Wales. The UK was one of the first countries in the world to develop a test for Covid in January 2020, but despite this failed to translate that into an effective test-and-trace system during the first year of the pandemic. Testing in the community stopped in March 2020 and for weeks during the first peak only those admitted to hospital were tested. It was not until May that the NHS Test and Trace system was launched in England, but the report described its start as "slow, uncertain and often chaotic". But it did praise the target set by Health Secretary Matt Hancock to get to 100,000 tests a day by the end of April, saying it played an important part in galvanising the system. The greatest praise though was reserved for the vaccination programme and the way the government supported the development of a number of vaccines, including the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab. It said the whole programme was one of the most effective initiatives in history, and will ultimately help save millions of lives here and across the world. The development of treatments, such as dexamethasone, for Covid through the UK Recovery Trial was another area where the UK's response was genuinely world-leading, the report said. And the NHS and government were also credited with the way hospital intensive care capacity was increased to ensure the majority who needed hospital treatment received it. Covid: UK start to pandemic worst public health failure ever, MPs say - BBC News
Can anyone point me to anything the opposition have said that is constructive, and not band wagon jumpers of shoulda coulda woulda way after any event has passed,all mouth and no action this opposition with no genuine answers to problems.Its so bad even 3 of their ministers are defecting, they suffered the biggest defeat in an election since the war, openly racist people in charge which has been proven, pages of corruption in Labour run councils, failures by wokey C DICK well named by the way, who cracks down hard on anything that's not left leaning, yet let loads of covid super spreader events left to carry on without action. A lefty London mayor with the worst history since records began, Knife crime, bankrupt TFL , scooter thefts, smash and grabs, burgalries, drug pushers, but more concerned with spending taxpayers money on Trump blimps, pay rises and laser fireworks displays, Yet Lots of people must have long covid as they still cant smell the coffee, This government have a lot a problems never seen before since wartime but there is no alternative to them, No one with a brain would let the opposition anywhere near government , The country is crying out for a leader with balls to make the hard decisions, and not scared of the wokeness trying to be pushed into our lives, more than 2 genders FFS bunch of idiots
"The country is crying out for a leader with balls to make the hard decisions, and not scared of the wokeness trying to be pushed into our lives, more than 2 genders FFS bunch of idiots." Yes, why is the PM allowing more than two genders to be recognised, good point.
Theirs been a lot of to'ing and fro'ing slagging both parties in fairness and I believe it's wrong to focus all the attention on the one seeing as most of those having a go at Boris are Labour supporters and come across as if Labour would have handled everything 100% better. From my previous post, I'm showing that they clearly may not have.
