Strategy of never explain and never apologize

WITH regard to the letter from Worried Pensioner, they unwittingly or otherwise supports the governments highly successful, distraction strategy

writing “the test and trace system has its limitations but test and trace can only work with the information it receives.”

The national T&T outsourced at an undisclosed cost to Sirco, Sitel and Capita among others by the myopic Cummings and sophomoric Johnson, has failed (despite it being touted as world-beating)!

The underfunded and until recently ignored, local health authority T&T has worked well and probably at a fraction of the cost per contact made, as the nationally outsourced T&T.

What has been far more successful than either version of T&T is the Government’s strategy of never apologise, never explain and blame everyone else; distract attention by fighting imaginary enemies, children in rubber dinghies, the EU and young people.

Next in line to blame for Government incompetence will be teachers, scientists and the weather!

One strategy the Government will never blame is, outsourcing. Much of what Public Health England did will no doubt be outsourced to private companies at an outrageous cost.

Rather than cheerleading for the Daily Mail, Worried Pensioner, should investigate PestFix: incompetence or corruption? I’ll let them choose.

I SEE that Councillor Vivien Lees-Hamilton is a bit worried over the lack of shops and poor public transport and the hotel being a bit isolated

The hotel in question is right next door to a coffee shop, a filling station that is being rebuilt with its own shop and is in the middle of two major roads with regular buses to Huddersfield, Brighouse, Halifax, Leeds, Dewsbury and Wakefield. It is a short distance into the middle of Mirfield with three excellent supermarkets and a railway station with regular trains to Huddersfield,

Leeds and Manchester and a direct service to London five times a day.

Does Councillor Vivien LeesHamilton think this is not adequate?

Over 20,0000 inhabitants of Mirfield have had to put up with these so-called poor transport links for decades but surely the most important thing of all, is that these asylum seekers feel safe.

Support businesses not threaten them

WITH regard to the artivle Councillors dismiss street traders fears”

We the Council Tax payers in Kirklees are to blame for the debacle in Cross Church Street. We voted for the “hypocritical” “sanctimonious” “megalomaniacs” who are in charge and make the decisions.

They know the nature of the businesses in Cross Church Street i.e. takeaways with delivery service, are they now to be reduced to bicycle deliveries, is the taxi office to be reduced to pedal-powered rickshaws? There are also many other businesses who rely on vehicular access!

Surely the Council should be supporting these businesses and not threatening them with possible closure!

Name towns where restrictions can go

KIRKLEES’ Council Labour leader Shabir Pandor demands the Government lifts restrictions in Kirklees. What he should be doing is naming the towns where the restrictions ought to be lifted.

I keep saying it, there is no place called Kirklees, though the Council is trying to remove the identities of our towns.

Why would the Government lift restrictions, when Pandor and Council employees were keeping Covid-19 outbreaks secret? Unfortunately, this Council is famous for refusing to inform the public about their schemes and spending.