Thinking for ourselves
I must agree with Ged Taylor comments that governments should be held accountable for their actions.
When this crisis is all over we are going to have the "mother" of all inquiries into Prime Minister Boris Johnson's leadership in this matter.
I would hope that people like Alan Wright, who is a regular contributor to these pages, will forget their blind partisanship and start thinking for themselves.
For example, when Michael Gove stands up in front of the television cameras and says that the shortage of PPE "is a logistical and not a supply problem", people of average intelligence should be thinking to themselves if that's the case, why can supermarkets like Asda and Tesco deliver millions of items to thousands of stores every single day?
I don't know about Alan Wright but I find it offensive when Prime Minister Johnson and his chums constantly repeat the Dominic Cummimgs inspired quote "Protect the NHS" when, with showing blatant hypocrisy, the government has spent 10 years doing the exact opposite of protecting the NHS.
Johnson talks with pride about our heroic NHS workers.
Yet this is the same man who voted against scrapping the 1% pay-rise cap for NHS nurses in 2017 and was a member of the government that clapped and cheered when a pay rise for nurses was blocked.
Only one Tory MP voted against the Government that day and it wasn't Boris Johnson.
When the inquiry starts, the Government will have to explain to the country why Ministers failed to publish the suppressed conclusions of a cross-government pandemic exercise that took place in 2016, which accurately predicted that the NHS would be plunged into crisis by an infectious and deadly disease and why they failed to act on its findings.
Only when we start thinking for ourselves will we get a Government we deserve.
”The government has spent 10 years not protecting the NHS.”