20-05-2020, 11:46 AM
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Re: Polly Toynbee's view of "this floundering crew" dealing with COVID-19
This is standard critical, carping, left wing propaganda churned out day in day out in the Guardian. Toynbee's stance is nothing new. All the BS fed us by the Left about how they were going to work with the Government was just that, B/S. Now gloves come off and voters will see the true colours of the Left the Liberals the Liberal Elite and the remnants of the Remainer supporters who, still smarting and bitter from their defeat in the election and in Brexit. want to get back at the Conservatives.Notwithstanding that they wouldn't have handled it any better had they been in charge, they stand on the sidelines whine to anyone prepared to listen, how badly this has been handled and that has been handled, with the hope of undermining everything the government do. Yes, the government made mistakes, everyone does, but it seems they can't do right for some people.
I think these sort of articles just show how out of touch with public opinion the media and the left are.
20-05-2020, 12:18 PM
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Re: Polly Toynbee's view of "this floundering crew" dealing with COVID-19
As British death toll becomes the worst in Europe, criticism of the UK approach is being voiced around the globehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...irus-response/
Patrick Sawer
And with the British death toll reaching almost 30,000 – the highest in Europe – that criticism is now being voiced by newspapers and commentators around the world.
One of the most damning assessments came in The Sydney Morning Herald at the weekend, when Australia's oldest newspaper published a long read headlined 'Biggest failure in a generation': Where did Britain go wrong?’
In common with several other international critics, the paper focused on four main failings by the UK:
- the lack of PPE for healthcare workers
- the repeated delays in implementing a lockdown
- a bungled test and tracing regime
- and the failure to protect vulnerable care home residents from the ravages of the virus
Despite this, it says British officials "dithered" in the face of reports of a new coronavirus coming out of China and continued to hesitate as the virus tore through northern Italy, just at the point lessons needed to be learnt – and quickly.
20-05-2020, 12:38 PM
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Re: Polly Toynbee's view of "this floundering crew" dealing with COVID-19
Originally Posted by Omah
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As British death toll becomes the worst in Europe, criticism of the UK approach is being voiced around the globehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...irus-response/
Patrick Sawer
Yet still the Tory government postulate and prevaricate .....
The government did precisely the right thing by following expert advice having recognised that politics should not be a factor in dealing with this monster.
The experts got it wrong.
Decisions made based on needs that emerged such as PPE were not followed up in a timely manner by useless and in one case deliberately obstructive civil servants.
NHS hospital trusts did not follow obvious good practice and sent infected people back to care homes.
Care homes did not obtain PPE which they could and should have done. It was not the responsibility of the NHS to provide this though it took the NHS to pick up the burden in many cases if not all.
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