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Two highlights from this morning – HealthSec Hancock the main target – politicalbetting.com
Two highlights from this morning – HealthSec Hancock the main target – politicalbetting.com
I must admit I am struggling to recall a political attack quite like this; personal, brutal, relentless. https://t.co/cm8cHY1GW2
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He makes it sound like it would be a piece of piss to just look back all the info of somebody who has tested positive. If it was that easy, the security services could track the few 1000 radical Islamists while sitting on their arses playing video games all day....not struggling to even keep track of a small percentage of those people and unfortunately from time to time one slipping through the net.
This is one reason why Gordon Brown's repeated Interventions with promises of more federalism have not, er, had much effect.
But, in this case, the biggest mistake was promoting Johnson, who has as predicted been a disaster.
The only reason the left don't want an English Parliament is it would normally have a Tory majority that is all, then we could have true Federalism with no need to break up England into regions.
The other reason for the UK never being a federation is that the central parliament would have to give up - not merely temporarily devolve - powers.
While I have faith neither in Hancock's competence nor his chosen strategies, he has worked unbelievably hard this past year. Rarely in peacetime can a politician have appeared so tired for so long. Under these circumstances, I'd like to see him kicked a little less viciously.
The big black marks are the initial reaction, especially to testing (which I think he got lead by the likes of PHE that said its just not possible to do that many tests)...and hiring Harding to head up the trace element while also over-promising just what was possible with that.
"There are numerous examples. I mean in the summer he said that everybody who needed treatment got the treatment that they required.
He knew that that was a lie because he had been briefed by the chief scientific adviser and the chief medical officer himself about the first peak, and we were told explicitly people did not get the treatment they deserved, many people were left to die in horrific circumstances."
I mean, with respect, the NHS doesn't give patients the treatment they deserve in before or indeed surely after COVID. Hancock's statement was, and is, meaningless and I'm surprised it's Dom's choice of target.
Successful Brexit deal.
Successful trade deal.
First country in the world to get a vaccine.
First major country in the world to end the pandemic.
The 'disasters' just keep piling up!
I don't think Hancock will be too worried about Cummings claims - the PM clearly stood by him earlier on and now Hancock will just keep shouting about the success of the vaccines and get vaccinated (while jogging in an England Cricket shirt, good man!)
Who's the PM and public going to back? The man who became a butt of jokes about Specsavers at Barnard Castle (even though I think it was defensible, I'm in a minority there), or the Health Secretary who has for months now been so associated with the vaccines?
Plus Ontario for example is by far the largest province of Canada and Federalism works fine there
Copyright BJO April 2020
Usual pile on from PB Tories
Cummings confirms it to be the case 26.5.21
As it looked clear it would never be met on time, ways of fiddling were introduced such as mailing out test kits counted as tests done.
You think so?
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Is it me, or are all of Dom's mates in Government brilliant, but everyone else is a bit rubbish.
Now, I wonder what big changes in his team were made around 6 months ago..
Hunt says that is a serious allegation. He says Hancock himself will be giving evidence to the committee next month.
He says they could have just copied what Singapore or Taiwan did. But Boris Johnson was at this point arguing that lockdown was a mistake, and he wanted to be like the mayor in Jaws.
He says Johnson was worried about the impact on the tourism industry. But he was told if they did not control April there would not be a tourism industry. He says Johnson was also being influenced by the Daily Telegraph’s “stupid campaign” on this topic, and Tory MPs were “going crackers” about this too.
Just looking through some work emails from last March.
Monday 2nd of March - General email sent out telling everyone to take their work laptops home on a daily basis.
Tuesday 3rd of March - Email sent out asking people if they could work from home for a period of at least three months, if they could what did they need to make sure they could work from home, and that the firm would pay for things like desk, chairs, extra broadband.
Same day - Email sent asking for thoughts about updating policies relating to Data Protection Issues and that was initiated.
Friday 6th of March - Staff asked to read new policies and flag up any issues, and work out what they needed to take home with them, and how to do that.
Sunday 8th of March - General work from home policy until further notice policy was agreed.
Monday 9th of March - Work from home order issued.
Home come my firm was about a fortnight ahead and more organised on Covid-19 than the government.
Unless Wales is just between waves.
‘Goes on to say self isolation needs to be stick and carrot - threat of prison plus food delivered to door.
"If we had just cut and pasted when they were doing in Singapore or Taiwan and said that's our policy things would have been better. No doubt about that at all."’
I’m pretty sure I said exactly this a few weeks ago. Some other Dom lines are pure MaxPB
Is he one of us?!
Government, 16 March 2020:
"As we said last week, our objective is to delay and flatten the peak of the epidemic by bringing forward the right measures at the right time, so that we minimise suffering and save lives. And everything we do is based scrupulously on the best scientific advice.... So, second, now is the time for everyone to stop non-essential contact with others and to stop all unnecessary travel. We need people to start working from home where they possibly can. And you should avoid pubs, clubs, theatres and other such social venues."
‘On border closures 👇
Before April: Official repeated advice was not to close borders. "Another groupthink thing said it was basically racist to close the borders." That was the official advice, the official advice was closing the borders would have no effect.’
50,000 were killed by Wokeness
Rashford:
Comms people "Don't pick a fight with Rashford"
Johnson: "Pick a fight with Rashord"
Johnson backs down twice.
Comms get blamed....
They were going to inject Boris with COVID on live tv to prove it’s a scare story. Like most the press reaction supporting that the next day, I admit I would have found it reassuring, because I was getting worried.
Cummings claimed that the Prime Minister believed the coronavirus to be little more than a scare story and would say things like he wanted to have England's chief medical officer "inject him with Covid" live on air to prove it was nothing to worry about.
Central to Cummings's criticism of Johnson and his government is a lack of preparedness, leading to lockdowns being delayed and policies like herd immunity being pursued.
Cummings listed numerous reasons for this delay, ranging from a belief that the British public would not go along with "Wuhan-style" measures, to external distractions. These ranged from then-US President Donald Trump wanting the UK to join a bombing mission in the Middle East, to stories about Johnson's fiance, Carrie Symonds, being upset about stories in newspapers about the couple's dog. But ultimately, his main accusation was that the government was simply unprepared and the plan in place at this time was based on falsehoods.
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Much as contrarian of this parish thinks the state wants to hang onto power gained during the crisis, any such lawyer would believe that once created, such a system would be retained.
Beyond the pandemic, Cummings criticized the whole system of British politics, saying that a system that offers a choice between Johnson or the former leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn "something's gone extremely, extremely, wrong."
He painted the Prime Minister as a man "a thousand times too obsessed with the media" and said that the Health Secretary should have been sacked for numerous reasons, including "publicly lying."
He painted a picture of an insular political system that promotes the wrong types of people and gives them incentives that don't result in the best form of governance.
This is pretty explosive stuff now
Are you not in the slightest bit concerned about what Cummings is saying? I seem to remember you being quite loyal to him as well a while ago. Who do you think is lying? Johnson or Cummings? Or maybe you think it doesn't matter? And if it does not matter, what does it say of the judgement of Johnson that he should have appointed Cummings in the first place?
You know who did close the border? The very woke Jacinda Arden.
"The SAGE previously advised that restricting travel to the UK would have little impact on the COVID-19 epidemic in the UK and would not be a useful measure in containing the outbreak. " - per its updated report on 22 March 2020.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/890030/S0076-scientific-advice-restricting-flights-from-specific-countries-220320-sage18.pdf
They will win majority at next election on basis they are 110% non woke, yet you are saying their decision making is woke.
Green MSPs including 2 co-leaders breached Covid law by gathering in upmarket bar yesterday in a group of more than 3 households. Patrick Harvie (from Glasgow - Level 3) also likely to face Qs re breaking rules by being in hospitality premises in Edinburgh
https://twitter.com/ChrisMusson/status/1397533162822160385?s=20
Getting this right is a test of whether his evidence is tainted by personalities etc.
Secondly, since the events of last year DC is not a trusted witness for well known reasons. In order to restore this it would have to be obvious that he is being as critical about himself, and in detail, as he is about others.
I am not convinced he is passing the tests.
Thirdly, he has given a number of hostages by way of evidence which another person may be able directly to contradict. This is not an especially safe procedure when it may be a bundle of rats in a sack involved.
Tentative conclusion: Boris and friends safe for now.
So if wave 3 is bad one for UK, will you leave PB for good. Are you THAT confident?
The tabloids will lap it up