Are this Govt fit for office??

[Thedogscollar]

Ok here we go. Hand on heart are this Govt fit for office? Before you answer take into consideration.

1. Huge balls up with PPE at beginning of pandemic.
2. The Cummings debacle and how they defended the indefensible.

3.The handling of the schools and the millions of children not having any education and still no concrete plans in place.
4.Track and trace app being about as useful as a chocolate teapot, although they were told it would not work 2 months ago.
5.The U turn after pressure on free school meals.

1. Spending a million pound painting a bloody aeroplane.
2. Dominic Raab likening Taking the knee to something from Game of Thrones.

They seem to stumble from one disaster to another. Are other first world countries governments as incompetent as ours seem to be?

[Kez200]

No.

Im no Corbyn lover but a true socialist would have been very likely to have been exactly what we needed!

[SabrinaThwaite]

Cummings and his determination to turn us into a unregulated, exploitative free-market, race-to-the-bottom, xenophobic, drawbridge up, exclusionary hell hole, that practices eugenics, and exists for no other reason than to accumulate wealth for the already wealthy

That’s a pretty accurate summary of where we are.

[cardibach]

@PerfidiousAlbion

On every point, i think theyre damned either way and hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Dont forget, its their advisors who should carry the blame for mistakes.

Has anyone seen the Sky drama COBRA? Reminds me very much of the situation we’re currently in.

I can’t work out if you are serious or not, @PerfidiousAlbion
It’s really hard these days.
Anyhow, advisors advise. Ministers decide. You can’t blame advisors. (With the exception of Cummings who isn’t an advisor at all. Due to the shitness of the government, he decides. This is still the government’s fault, of course, but some blame attaches to him).

[snappycamper]

No. They're an absolute shitshow in every respect.

[SecondaryBurnzzz]

I agree with pp who said Teresa May would have been much better: fully briefed, on top of the science and honest.

[SeaWitchly]

They've not covered themselves in glory, but I think we are in less of a mess than we would have been with a government led by Jeremy Corbyn.

Wins stupidest MN comment grin

[DanniArthur]

The way the Westminster government has handled everything from Brexit to Coronavirus had been shambolic! Boris Johnson has been shown as an incompetent idiot on numerous occasions and the whole cabinet dont have a clue! The fact they all backed Dominic Cummings even after his ridiculous excuse for ignoring the rules he helped set is preposterous!
I'm in Scotland and our chief medical officer resigned after a similar incident! The fact the Uks four nations all took separate approaches says it all about the confidence everyone has in the tory government. (Full disclosure that I've always thought Scotland should be independent) A sentiment now shared by a lot more Scots after our first minister's decisive leadership has been such a contrast to the shambles in England

[tenlittlecygnets]

No. They have been arrogant, irresponsible, late to act and cavalier with our lives, especially the frontline medical staff and lack of PPE, plus sending care home residents back to care homes with Covid-19.

Fucking awful, and no shred of apology or responsibility re Cummings.

[user1471565182]

The press have put a spoilt wanker who dresses like a toddler, has never been elected, vanished into russia for years and calls others 'elite' despite his wife's family having an actual fucking castle into power and it seems this is of no real concern to half the population.

Conservatives arnt actually conservative are they (at least not anymore) Their tribal supporters dont care that they've shredded and sold the country off, because they got to 'win'.

[Pixxie7]

Not at all, we need a coalition government. We have some good MPs they need to work across the boundaries and forget self preservation. Boris dictatorial attitude is not helping either.

[DioneTheDiabolist]

It depends on what you mean by fit for purpose.

If you mean a government that can do whatever it wants because it has a huge majority then this government is very fit for purpose.🤷‍♀️

[NoMoreReluctantCustodians]

"Corbyn would have been worse' its another of those slogans that Boris loves so much at least we now know why the genius Cummings gave him 3 word slogans to repeat. It seems its all he can cope with.

The news yesterday about Apple and/or.Google not knowing they'd been working along side the government on track and trace is laughable.

I am no Tory by a country mile but I was cringing seeing those ministers reduced to defending Durhamgate. They are all obviously terrified of Cummings.

I agree that the government isnt fit for purpose

[D4rwin]

No. Embarrassing at the international level and being allowed to wage their war on anyone not in their little privileged niche.
Not to mention they don't have a stance other than whinge and moan about other political parties who question them and seek to hold them to account, which is literally the point of a parliament. Cringe worthy.

[Mumratheevergiving]

Learning to count properly would help e.g individual gloves included in the total count of PPE & deaths NOT included in the figures at the height of the peak.

We have a rotund pig in an ill fitting suit with an abysmal work history ‘leading’ us - it was never going to be a triumph of a Government. Lack of consultation, u-turns, the travesty of releasing Covid into care homes. Issues like face masks I will now look to other countries to follow advice. They have nil credibility on their decision making. Zero help for working parents as we come out of the crisis and now no childcare options for summer, but I can cruise the shops and pub with my yr3.

They lost any remaining trust I had in them to get us through the pandemic with the outright lies & lack of apology over Cummings.

Running the country at the moment is harder than ever but the ‘truth twisters’ in Central Government are an absolute disgrace.

[Mumratheevergiving]

In their favour they acted fast on the furlough scheme.

[mrsBtheparker]

I can’t believe a Labour Government would’ve been worse

You clearly not experienced the sort of Labour governemnt that Corbyn and Comrades would have inflicted upon us!.

[countrygirl99]

mrsbtheparker none of us have, we can only guess. Some will guess different to others. This government we can judge on performance and, months into this pandemic, they are not able to say why or where the infections are in a badly performing part of the country. Says it all really.

[Noextremes2017]

They did act fast on the furlough scheme but really all it amounts to is buying time and kicking the can down the road.
9 million people not needed for work and being paid temporarily by the Government.
Does anyone seriously think 9 million will return to their old jobs at their old pay in the new normal that the Government is shaping?

[Mumratheevergiving]

MrsBtheParker but we are talking about our current Ministry of Incompetence not better or worse fictitious alternatives?

Surely Matt Hancock is on borrowed time as the management of the public health response has been largely disastrous?

[MockersMisguidedByTheScience]

First Rule of Tory:

Everything is the fault of the last Labour govt, until such time as everything would have been the fault of the hypothetical current Labour govt.

[Noextremes2017]

Matt Hancock should be retired to the RSPCA home for frightened rabbits on compassionate grounds.

Dominic Raab can be Johnson’s new head of a Racism enquiry.

Sunak should be head of a new department for talking a lot and saying nothing - his special ability.

[BaileysforBreakfast]

You clearly not experienced the sort of Labour governemnt that Corbyn and Comrades would have inflicted upon us!

Jesus wept. The standard of comment on some of these threads.
Mockers - think you've hit nail on head. Nothing the government does is the government's fault, unless it's a 'good' thing, presumably, in which case the credit is all theirs.

[FliesandPies]

The great Michael Spicer on the reprehensible Dominic Raab

'I hate this lot..'

[CendrillonSings]

First Rule of Labour:

Put a bunch of stupid socialists up for election. Lose massively. Blame the electorate. Moan for five years.

Repeat.

[Thedogscollar]

CendrillonsingsWhat! We've waited 24 hours for that nugget of wisdom. You shouldn't have wasted your time.

The Conservatives could commit mass murder, oh wait they already have and you would still defend them to the death.