Due to a muddled response to a foreseeable pandemic 37,460 Britons are confirmed to have died from Coronavirus, the highest toll in Europe. There are 59,537 excess deaths,Sir Keir Starmer
“This was the week when we should have been talking about how we ease the lockdown safely. How we restart our economy, support businesses, get more children back to school,” Sir Keir said.
“Instead, the prime minister’s unwillingness or inability to do the right thing has left the government looking untrustworthy, unprincipled.
“And worst of all they have undermined the very public health advice that is necessary to keep us all safe, just to keep one powerful aide in his job.”
the highest death rate on this world.
It's all down to a privileged political class was unpreprared, complacent and incompetent. The inability to contain the virus necessitated rigid lockdown, with rules drafted in part by Boris's senior aide Dominic Cummings. Last Saturday it was revealed that during the lockdown Cummings and his wife and son both suffering symptoms of Covid-19, drove 400km north to his parents’ farm because he feared he couldn’t look after his son. It then emerged he had driven to a Barnard Castle, a local beauty spot with the family during the lockdown. This flouting of the social distancing rules have brought a storm of criticism, with a compelling case that there was one rule for the elite and one rule for the rest of the country.
Instead of referring the matter to the Cabinet Secretary, Cumming's boss, on Sunday Boris decided to face the press, defending his Cummings ations as perfectly reasonable.
The press didn't buy it so we wheeled out Cummingson Monday to explain the story from his side. He gave us 11/2 hours of plain including the excuse that he drove 30 miles to Barnard Castle whilst recovering from the effects of the virus , to test his eyesight ( arguably in itself , this story was true, it's a traffic violation).
Boris has continued to waste political capital on defending this unelected official ever since.
Millions of people are making sacrifices, both financial and personal in order to get the country back on its feet. Many have died doing so.So it is right that they expect those rules to be followed by everybody,for the common good.
Boris has now made clear that there is one law for the elite and one for everyone else and that this one man is more important to him than the wellbeing of the nation.The result seems to be the effective end of the lockdown as the peasants decide to ignore laws that were so publicy flouted by Cummings with visible support from our PM. The impending trace and track system, woefully late relies on public cooperation. I wouldn't put money on that happening until the Cummings issue is resolved.
England is now a laughing stock.
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