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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Johnson's position is ... · 1 reply · +1 points

Nobody is - or should be - suggesting that governing through a pandemic is easy or straightforward.

But sending 3 million primary school children to school for 1 day to mix and potentially spread infection - was utterly negligent. Why on earth could the decision to close not have been taken on Sunday, with the obvious benefits of building on the natural break from the Christmas holidays? Completely beggars belief.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The Ministerial Code i... · 1 reply · +1 points

I don't think this government has understood that most people have seen or experienced workplace bullying at some point and the majority don't like it. This will not end well.

Quite a risk to attempt to bury/ diminish the report now given that all the details are likely to be scrutinised in Philip Rutnam's employment tribunal.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The Ministerial Code i... · 0 replies · +1 points

Have you got a link to the report please

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Michael Dugher: Minist... · 0 replies · +1 points

Well said

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - This hatchet man in a ... · 1 reply · +1 points

Given that Arcuri was the recipient of public money in dubious circumstances I'd say the British taxpayer was the victim here.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Chris Green: We are fo... · 0 replies · +1 points

And Burnham is fighting for financial support for that young man from a government happy to splurge undocumented billions on other elements of the covid response, but failing to explain how people on minimum wage are expected to live on not much more than £5/ hour. That's not opportunism, it's leadership.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Burnham is trying to f... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yep it was a guess and it's another world to me James. I cannot begin to imagine what these people are delivering for £1000/ hour of taxpayers money. Unfortunately it's not a working track and trace system.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Burnham is trying to f... · 2 replies · +1 points

GM has been asking for months to manage test and trace locally but this has fallen on deaf ears as government continue their folly of throwing public money at management consultants rather than trusting local public health teams. Sky News is reporting that over 1000 Deloitte consultants are working on Test & Trace. One can only imagine what that might be costing - probably close to a million a day on a system that doesn't work well enough to have any real impact on the spread of the virus. But there is 'no money' to adequately support people on minimum wage working in businesses that have to close due to local lockdowns. No wonder people in GM are very very angry.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - If test and trace is t... · 0 replies · +1 points

We already have local public health infrastructure with a wealth of knowledge and experience. Test & trace could have been led locally and beefed up with resource from Serco etc as required. But no. At vast vast expense we try to reinvent the wheel with thousands of management consultants with negligible public health knowledge creating a top down centralised system that isn't fit for purpose. Scandalous really, the crazy amounts of money that have been spent on this folly.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Sasha Swire's diaries.... · 0 replies · +1 points

Completely agree although I don't believe he ever really wanted it to happen and his personal tragedy is that he will forever remain inextricably associated with it.

The price paid for achieving his ambition of becoming PM at any cost.

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