How do you think Boris has handled it so far ? June edition

[JC Footy Genius]

That would be so funny, if it wasn’t so ironic!

No idea what you mean ... as you know I am nearly always impartial and hate to indulge in partisan point-scoring nonsense

 

[nicko31]

Let's start from the fair assumption that they probably got some things wrong (unless the policy objective really was to have 60K+ excess deaths).

Here are some candidates

- Johnson's shaking hands with Covid victims
- late lockdown
- farce on PPE
- policy on care homes
- underprepared NHS/negligent strategic planning
- the Cummings affair
- the tracking app shambles
- poor messaging
- late implementation of quarantine
- Johnson constant over hyping of our capabilities (world beating this; world class that)

TBH it's hard to locate anything that went right? Surely this will go down as the most single disastrous mismanagement by a government in recent history?

Did OK with the Nightingale Hospitals to be fair, that avoided a 0/10 for me

Damage is done now, we ease and hope for the best. The public I'm sure will continue on the whole to be very responsible despite being let down badly

 

[darkwolf666]

No idea what you mean ... as you know I am nearly always impartial and hate to indulge in partisan point-scoring nonsense

Is impartial a synonym for blinkered?

 

[Birdie Boy]

I will add to that - 16th March - avoid pubs, office and travelling. How many people died in the week from then to lockdown a week later.

Dithering
Lies

I doubt that many that were in pubs, offices etc. to be honest.

 

[darkwolf666]

I doubt that many that were in pubs, offices etc. to be honest.

Sorry, I should have said, how many people were infected as a result of the weak advice to “avoid”. When the R rate was running at around 3 those very places were a breeding ground for infection. Just 6 days later came the lockdown, so in my eyes at least one week too late.

Add to that the government’s failure to ban mass gatherings and you have all the hallmarks of a government paralysed by the fear of damaged economics over health.

 

[WATFORD zero]

No idea what you mean ... as you know I am nearly always impartial and hate to indulge in partisan point-scoring nonsense

Well I have noticed that you hardly ever score a partisan point these days, but I think that's far more about opportunity than intention

 

[Machiavelli]

Did OK with the Nightingale Hospitals to be fair, that avoided a 0/10 for me

Damage is done now, we ease and hope for the best. The public I'm sure will continue on the whole to be very responsible despite being let down badly

I agree with the Nightingales despite their non-/limited-use. I'd also throw in:
-- the furlough, and wider economic measures (Sunak's problem will be in dealing with the aftermath, and I'll probably turn against him at this point)
-- much of the messaging bringing in lockdown was clear and helped orient the wider public, especially 'Stay at Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives'.

 

[nicko31]

I agree with the Nightingales despite their non-/limited-use. I'd also throw in:
-- the furlough, and wider economic measures (Sunak's problem will be in dealing with the aftermath, and I'll probably turn against him at this point)
-- much of the messaging bringing in lockdown was clear and helped orient the wider public, especially 'Stay at Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives'.

In the case of Sunak if you can't be popular spending a few hundred billion you'll never be popular. The jury is out for me on him, tough times ahead and he needs to help the right people

 

[A1X]

In the case of Sunak if you can't be popular spending a few hundred billion you'll never be popular. The jury is out for me on him, tough times ahead and he needs to help the right people

Agreed, he's done the easy bit well, but it is just the easy bit. When the shit hits the fan that'll be when we see whether he's a serious prospect or just another empty suit.

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Well I have noticed that you hardly ever score a partisan point these days, but I think that's far more about opportunity than intention

You mean the king of the edits actually pauses to 'think' before posting on here? ...

 

[darkwolf666]

The end of hibernation - the man is nothing but a fool, actually scrap that, he is a dangerous fool...

 

[Machiavelli]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOvO4wIBXS0

Go to the beach. Don't go to the beach.

 

[nicko31]

Johnson and Cummings: A Timeline of Failure (Part One)

To be continued....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twDYflcq1ls