[Politics] Give the current government a score out of 10 for their handling of COVID-19

[rogersix]

6/10. Doubt any other Government could have done better. And I am fairly sure a fair few could have done worse.

did you not give 10 for fear of appearing foolish?

 

[El Presidente]

But apart from that[emoji23]

Back of the net!

Merry Christmas to all at Chicken Run Towers x


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[Chicken Run]

Back of the net!

Merry Christmas to all at Chicken Run Towers x


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Love back to you and yours

 

[LlcoolJ]

1/10 Couldn't really have screwed it up much worse of they were intentionally trying to. With bonus billions wasted on contracts to mates and fraud.

 

[LlcoolJ]

3/10

Using the crisis to fill the pockets of donors is cronyism at its most repugnant.

The abandonment of the UK elderly care industry to fend for itself is appalling.

Giving people half price cheeseburger vouchers to help spread the disease during August was short sighted in the extreme.

A ‘world class’ track and trace scheme that rapidly became a laughing stock was a ridiculously expensive white elephant.

Some of the good decisions and schemes (furlough, lending to small businesses) will prove to be a fraudster’s charter and will have to be paid for by the UK taxpayer for decades.

And this.

Anyway, sirloin joint is in (not a euphemism EP) so Merry Christmas to you, Chicks and everyone else.

 

[GT49er]

Really.

So everyone else would have secured 160,000,000 items of PPE that failed to meet the standards to enable the items to be used in Covid settings just like this Government.

You could try writing that number on the side of a bus .......................

 

[rogersix]

You could try writing that number on the side of a bus .......................

no one would believe it

 

[Jolly Red Giant]

The Tories have made an utter bags of dealing with the pandemic - even worse than in Ireland, and that is saying something.

 

[Chicken Run]

And this.

Anyway, sirloin joint is in (not a euphemism EP) so Merry Christmas to you, Chicks and everyone else.

My favourite NSC accountant, hope you and your fam had a great day up in Steel City?

 

[Jolly Red Giant]

And by the way - Starmer has been useless in holding the Tories to account (too busy kicking left-wingers out of New Labour)

 

[Chicken Run]

And by the way - Starmer has been useless in holding the Tories to account (too busy kicking left-wingers out of New Labour)

I fear he’s only doing what he’s being told to by those really IC of the PLP....

 

[Return of the Rev]

Not sure the great unwashed have done well out of all of this, seems everyone has special reason why the rules don't apply, anyway glad we have got Xmas done can't wait to see the extra misery it will cause over the coming months.

 

[Hamilton]

3/10

Using the crisis to fill the pockets of donors is cronyism at its most repugnant.

The abandonment of the UK elderly care industry to fend for itself is appalling.

Giving people half price cheeseburger vouchers to help spread the disease during August was short sighted in the extreme.

A ‘world class’ track and trace scheme that rapidly became a laughing stock was a ridiculously expensive white elephant.

Some of the good decisions and schemes (furlough, lending to small businesses) will prove to be a fraudster’s charter and will have to be paid for by the UK taxpayer for decades.

Add to this:

Slow to react and our PM not attending COBRA meetings

The unnecessary, 'eat out to kill your granny' scheme

The reactionary approach to the tier system and lockdown - Boris appears to be the only man in the country genuinely surprised that the infection rates go up in winter and when he relaxes restrictions

The lack of a planned response e.g. identifying lockdown periods so that the public and business can plan for them

Sending students back to universities where they can transmit the virus to one another and then sit about doing virtual tutorials that could have been done from home

And, of EP's points about, the hundreds of £millions handed out to friends of the Tories is a disgrace of the highest order that the people of this country should be screamingly angry about, but the vast majority are asleep to this.

Boris's strategy can be summed up in another handy 3-part phrase: Head in Sand - Money to be stolen - Flexible guidance

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Next to impossible knowing how to score it really, but l have gone for an arbitary 6.

This was a big unknown for all of us, and whatever the government did, or didn't do, it was always going to upset someone.

Either way l really don't envy them their task.