Funny! But tells you everything you need to know about politics. It's a side show, an in-house joke! The civil service alongside the major corporations run this country and the world tbh. Voting is basically irrelevant. Never stopped or started a war, never changed the world in any discernible way. Only revolutions change the world.
So, our handling of the Covid crisis wasn't world class after all and Boris was lying to us all the time, doh The Covid inquiry report makes it clear: Britain was completely and fatally unprepared The consequence, as Lady Hallett’s first report from the Covid inquiry notes, is that the UK government failed in its basic responsibility to its citizens of keeping them safe. The UK had too many preventable deaths, not only from Covid, but also from the shutdown of health services and a long lockdown that would have been unnecessary had public health systems been in place. In 2002, Sars, a dangerous coronavirus, spread across the world with a fatality rate of around 10%. Although it was contained relatively quickly, east Asian countries learned from this experience and updated their pandemic preparedness plans. Their governments wanted to be ready if the virus returned. On the other side of the world, the UK didn’t react or adapt. Complacency was at play, especially with the assumption that Britain was one of the most prepared countries in the world for a pandemic.
This and the economy are the things the Tories argue they did well. The best thing they did was lose heavily.
I could've accepted them saying the situation was grim and we'd been caught on the hop ... ... continually claiming we were leading the world and had systems that were working just made people complacent. The fact that the airlines, who'd lose out financially, were the first to stop flying to heavily infected countries, like Spain and Italy was absolutely shameful. The Government should've stopped flights immediately then evaluated the situation. Building Nightingale hospitals, when we didn't have enough staff for the existing ones, was ludicrous. Heads should be hanging in shame.
Holding off the lockdown until Cheltenham Festival was finished so Dildo ‘Test and Trace my profit’ Harding, chair of NHS Improvement, could fulfil her jockey club function and Health secretary Matt Hancock could keep his political sponsors from horse racing happy was particularly good judgment. World leading corruption as the ‘bodies piled up’.
Lord Vestey lived in a stately home in Hancock's constituency in East Anglia and was big in the horse racing world. My mate did a job for Lord Vestey and said he referred to Hancock as "Matty dear boy" when speaking to him on the phone. All constituents are equal, but some constituents are more equal than others...
Hancock used to rent a Grade-II listed property on the Thurlow Estate – a property owned by Lord Vestey and his family. Vestey was chair of Cheltenham Racecourse for 21 years.
It was all a coincidence and Hancock hardly knew Lord Vestey. Just like his local pub landlord who got a £20m PPE contract, despite having no experience of any sort of manufacturing. He barely knew him as well.
