Yorkietiger
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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Garvan Walshe: We can ... · 0 replies · +1 points
If that is the case then it is a pretty poor excuse. Indeed allowing a proper debate and challenging government should have allowed the government the ability to clearly articulate the reasoning and evidence that supported its decisions, and if it could not do so, then allow proper consideration of other approaches. This I think would have facilitated better outcomes to have been achieved than the current Covid above all else that has been the mantra thus far.
I think pretty soon it is going to start to sink home to ordinary people's just how much collateral damage has been done. At the moment most people are only seeing the immediate obvious things, like children not in school and the odd shop and pub getting boarded up. Just wait until the support starts being withdrawn and 2m more hit the unemployed list, and fuel tax, income tax start to rise as they surely must to start paying off the huge debts that have been accrued. And that is before we see the effects of NHS waiting lists of 10 million and the deaths that will result from that.
Boris and Hancock may well be basking in the vaccination program sun light just now, but the storm clouds will soon be gathering and chickens will be coming home to roost.
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The relaxation of lock... · 0 replies · +1 points
I went to see my GP last week, and even he admitted that little other than Covid is getting done. He said every time he chases tests, follow up treatments and the like for patients all he ever gets is excuses always linked Covid.
Going back to the deified NHS service though. I worked in South Africa for many years, there I could ring my GP in the morning, see her the same day, be sent for tests/x-rays the next day and be in hospital being treated the next week. Try that with the NHS and see how far you get!
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Conservative MPs on wh... · 0 replies · +1 points
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Conservative MPs on wh... · 0 replies · +1 points
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Drakeford attac... · 1 reply · +1 points
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Iain Dale: Why would a... · 1 reply · +1 points
Frankly, I have seen Vladimir Putin get a harder time from the Russian Press!
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Iain Dale: Why would a... · 1 reply · +1 points
Had we done that, we would have reduced the cost in lives, societal misery, and economic disaster. We would have spent far less money as well, and been much more able to recover once the vaccine roll out is completed.
Instead we allowed academics and scientists with one track minds to hijack Government and rush in with blind panick measures, that have not been proven to work, and put them in a place where once in a particular hole, they had no choice but to keep on digging rather than facing the embarrassment of admitting they got it wrong and changing the approach.
I am pretty convinced that when the inevitable public enquiry that is going to follow this debacle reports, that it going concluded that the approach we took was wrong, and that as a result much more suffering than was necessary was done. Sadly by that time Bojo, Hancock, Whitty, Vallance and all the rest of them will be long gone, either drawing their gold plated pensions, or writing their memoirs.
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Miles Briggs: The pand... · 4 replies · +1 points
People may argue that the money they provide cannot be got elsewhere. Well I would beg to differ. It used to be the same with the tobacco industry 30 years ago, when F1 cars looking like cigarette packets on wheels, Benson and Hedges sponsored county cricket, and Embassy the Snooker World Championships. That was all torn down and I did not see any great downside, and I see no reason why betting shops being banned from advertising and sponsorship would be any different.
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Bordering on impossible · 0 replies · +1 points
As for the likelihood of Reform winning, I agree it is unlikely, bu the that does not mean I should vote for Dumb or Dumber, just because our useless electoral system pushes this damaging bi-polar nonsense.
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Bordering on impossible · 0 replies · +1 points