It’s been a complete FUCKING FARCE!
Yet there are still people defending Johnson & this Tory govt despite such clear and bloody prominent evidence that they have massively fucked up!!
I have family & friends in other countries and they are completely stunned and bewildered at how utterly incompetent things have been handled here. And yes I’ve lived overseas myself too and frankly I wish I was now!
I voted “no” before in the scottish referendum which I’m very much regretting, the sooner Scotland goes independent the better!
From
ENCOURAGING large gatherings well past the point when it was blindingly bloody obvious this was really stupid and other countries were already locked down.
REFUSING to organise equipment and staff that again, it was blindingly bloody obvious we were going to need more ventilators, ppe and appropriately trained staff. The latter is more tricky but back in January they could have been ensuring soon to qualify or usually assigned to other depts medics were suitably trained on vents etc
REFUSING to sort testing and tracing, absolute fucking disgrace this STILL isn’t being done in a formal organised way
REFUSING to close schools basically until their hands were forced by public pressure and devolved govts
REFUSING to lock down ports and airports. At the very least they should have restricted them to returning brits only and testing & quarantining them upon arrival
WHAT THE FUCK they have played at with regard to furlough, help for self employed unable to work, mortgage relief etc is just bonkers! Would have been far easier, quicker and CHEAPER to just give everyone a Universal Basic Income even temporarily. Whole swathes of the population have been completely forgotten in that mess! Ridiculously and unnecessarily complicated, so much so that even people who deal with this kind of thing from payroll clerks and accountants to financial journalists have found it a nightmare to work out what the rules are.
They so clearly have NO IDEA how to bring us out of lockdown remotely safely and keep fobbing us off on that subject.
And there’s been NO MENTION (as far as I’m aware) as to the impact of all this on the country in connection with Brexit which is 8 short months away!
A few have mentioned “well at least we’re not American and governed by trump” well fuck me! Talk about scraping the bloody barrel!
I’m struggling to think of a more incompetent pm and govt in our entire history - I genuinely don’t thing there has been!
He’s seriously giving even Eden a run for his money!
Try looking at population density as well, we are a densly populated island; it's no wonder we have a lot of deaths. an extremely poor excuse for their lack of action and lack of care for the British public.
Yes I am ashamed to be British, and that started back in 2016 with peoples behaviour in the run up to the referendum.
The racism, bigotry and selfishness while being completely unaware of the ramifications of Brexit was astonishing, shocking and heartbreaking.
And it’s gone downhill since then!
Yes there are many acting bravely, selflessly and helping others but there’s a hell of a lot bitching about not being able to get their nails done, or go to the pub when there are literally 10,000’s DYING and 100,000’s very sick as a result of this virus.
I didn’t, never have and never will vote Tory but a significant number of people did for the most bizarre reasons in some cases, ignorance in others and blind faith in yet more.
The tories never have and never will give a shit about ordinary people. They care only about their bank balances!
“as they are doing an excellent job by following the advice of the experts.” Please DO tell us exactly how when we have apparently the highest death rate of developed nations?! And that’s very likely an under reporter number anyway!
They’ve done an absolutely abysmal job and haven’t listened to anyone sensible at all.
Why haven't we ever introduced quarantine? We're on an island, ffs!
Exactly my thought! We should really, if only by virtue of geography, have been one of the countries handling this the best!
The freedom allowed to journalist questions. are you serious?! You do know that journalists have been warned off asking anything too challenging? That certain journalists and papers have been banned from press conferences? The briefings have been very strictly controlled so that no “awkward” questions are asked in the 1st place! The very opposite of what SHOULD be happening and what a good, honest and open press SHOULD achieve!
The MSM in this country is another massive source of embarrassment!
but again, we were in the very early stages of it all then and had no real idea of how it would play it for real but we had the evidence from other countries including countries with similar population, population density and culture to our own and our govt IGNORED that evidence.
Anyone who says we didn’t have enough notice is thick as mince. yep!!