You're misunderstanding, this has nothing to do with politics. But if you genuinely believe if another party were in charge we've have had 10s of thousands less deaths, you're off your rocker.

Just reread your earlier post, you think he's to blame for 30000 deaths.. Wow.. We're only on just over 30000

layingisthewayforward,maybe if our nhs hadnt been stripped down to the bare bones in terms of equipment,stock,staff,facilties etc etc we might have started the fight in a better position. then we wouldnt of had as many needless deaths as we have.maybe if we had of closed our borders and used the fact that we are an island to our advantage we could of saved a few more needless deaths.just a thought

Our deaths are already over 50,000

Tories running out of space to hide the deaths

So we're gonna Blame Boris for decades of under funding of the NHS now as well. Jeez, he has been busy.

I feel a bit sorry for Italy. They'd had a couple of outbreaks and caught them well. Hampered by the fact that it hit Europe at the time of half time and school skiing trips to the Alps were busy. They had the outbreak near Milan and were just never able to catch the first guy and lock it down. Made a few mistakes since like but they were the first in Europe hit so didn't have a precedent to follow.

Our negligence was simply criminal. Firstly, there's Operation Cygnus. We did a dummy run for exactly this type of thing. It predicted the mess we're in; lack of equipment, major disruption to other services etc etc. The tories could have taken it on board, made the necessary investments and protected the public. After all, a pandemic is consistently the biggest risk a country faces. We'd had a decade of austerity - where we decided to close libraries and public services, and strip health and social care finance to the bone while the bankers and capitalists continued to collect their bonuses - that say supplies dwindle to such an extent that even today nurses and doctors are using PPE that is years out of date. Instead of being responsible and acting on their own dry run, they brushed it under the carpet and forgot about it. Negligence.

Then there's Johnson's approach. Going on national TV, talking about how he's shaking hands with victims and how we should maybe allow the virus to just pass through the country. Somebody tells him what this actually means in reality and he finally decides on a shut down but instead of locking down simply advises people to stop visiting pubs and restaurants but doesn't tell them to close. The mixed messages were ridiculous.

Fact is we knew from the end of last year that this was a bad one. We knew quickly that the Chinese didn't have it under control, it was reaching Singapore and cruise ships were being denied entry. This was all known. We got a warning with that guy flying in from the Far East and going to Brighton and managed to contain that one. The minute it broke wide in Italy we literally knew we had to go to red alert to stop it becoming an epidemic here. Instead, we carried as normal. Johnson concentrating on bunging a bong for big ben, had weekends away and decided the virus wasn't important enough for him to attend COBRA meetings. We had dozens of flights in each day from Milan and did absolutely nothing to check if the passengers were ill. Nothing at all. We basically rolled out the red carpet for the virus.

There are lessons from across Europe and the rest of the world on how this could have been handled better. But take a moment to look at how foreign press is reporting on Britain and it's somewhere between pity and farce. The rest of the world sees the data, sees the evidence and know just how badly we handled this. If we had a BBC that dared to ask probing questions and a print media that wasn't in hock to wealthy moguls who go to the same garden parties as Johnson and Rees-Mogg then this country would also realise the same. If the tories were as good in managing this crisis as they have been in using their press mates to supress the truth then they'd be half decent.

A recent pole had Bozza at 56 %  , but Lets Just ignore that , Hey ??

You have another 9 Years to get through Lads

"Seething" at people dying and thousands of jobs about to be lost.


Quite odd.

I think the public's responsibility rests on the shoulders of the people who voted tory at the election, rather than those who didn't. But nice try.

Or if May hadn't stabbed herself in the back by calling for the election before the ERG started sabotaging her at every turn.

Brexit would've also happened under May, despite the constant ERG sabotage, if May had actually worked with the opposition just a tiny little bit instead of trying to blackmail them into agreeing her precise version of Brexit through the invocation of patriotic guilt.

Even the blackmail would've worked though if the ERG hadn't stepped in before MV4 to get rid of her.

Tories/Boris, scum of the earth.

Brexit would've also happened under Boris (before the election) if he hadn't sabotaged it happening as part of his political games.

Absolute Shyte there was nothing but Spanner throwing for years to try to stop the Process  ......

Tories said 20k would be a decent result

50k already...

Take our Grossly over populated Country out of the UK , and the rest are fairing as well if not a lot better than most countries , But just ignore
that and the Fact that millions travelled into and out of  this country since January , there is yer Problem , The AIRPORTS should have been shut down , as for leaving public transport running Madness ..........

If I was english, I'd die of shame before the virus

They don't come much more Liberal than jacinda ahern in New zealand

What did she do?

Case you thought we fought the Russians in ww2, thought till death do us part was a plant on BBC now you are proving the thread title perfectly

Not a great week

casemoney. In the context of 600,000 dying every year in the UK it is minor. Certainly not worth destroying the future of millions
or tens of millions of young Britons.