Originally Posted by
LTNman
Yes indeed, Corbyn and Dianne Abbot and co would have done a great job steering the country so it avoided Covid. There would have been no care home deaths, no recession, no shortage of PPE. These problems would just have been issues in the rest of the world but not here.
How could they have done worse ?
Thousands dead, Economy destroyed, zero trust in public services and a Govt full of propoganda. Hell if a fiction writer wrote that a UK Govt could do this and asked man in the street they would be called mad.
You will find that many counties had and still do have major problems with nursing homes. It was not just an English problem like you are implying. Closer to home Scotland had major problems.
Bojo is PM of UK & NI not England and responsible for the lot.
As you say Joe Public is indeed the cause of the pandemic. This government was slow to react but there would have been no appetite for a New Zealand approach which contained the virus by shutting itself off from the rest of the world.
Govt incompetence that was evident from the start has been the cause. A lingerie model (Caprice) was abused on TV by medical personnel for daring to suggest in March that UK should follow Singapore / Japan examples of requiring face masks. Claimed it could not stop the spread but in July it can apparently.
As Hitchens in the Mail asks "How many people of the millions forced to destroy holidays and return home have been tested positive for Covid-19"...................... don't expect an answer from Govt but still it was happy to get revenge on anybody who ignored them.
Croatian Govt had a ready response to Slovenia and Austria who threatened to shut borders it seems, "screw what is left of our tourist industry and we will auto quanantine anybody going on wintersports in Slovenia and Austria", seems to have worked as well.
UK Govt still has no policy just reaction after reaction and anybody questions it gets labelled with "willing to see people die" while those who did it get off in the media.