Fever, Fervour Fer … … goodness sake
IN America this was a week when many were called but few chose to attend Mr Trump’s rally. In Britain it was a week when the PM 'reinterpreted' the UK quarantine 'rules'. Locally it was a week whenWBC said two things it shouldn’t have.
It’s one rule for them …
The PM’s star guest of the week, Emmanuel Macron, could hardly visit the UK and spend 14 days in quarantine could he?
According to the Professor Peter Piot at the weekend that wasn’t a problem because while quarantine might have “made sense at the very beginning”, it’s “completely useless” now and we should “concentrate on what works”.
… And another for us
While being questioned about new rules for lockdown, Matt ‘the mystified’ Hancock was asked if ‘this will all be written down?’ he responded saying that ‘we’re going to set all of that out this week’ which as we now know isn’t exactly ‘yes’.
It’s Minister speak for ‘we’ll be making it up on the hoof’ errr … sorry, that’s ‘we’ll be guided by the science’. Which was duly trotted out less than 10 seconds later, somewhere between ‘mitigation’ and ‘pub lunch’.
Lest we forget
Phase two of the Grenfell Inquirywill examine the causes of the events that led to the deaths of 72 people in the Grenfell Tower fire and the Inquirywill resume on Monday, July 6.
Property developer Berkeley Homes Group called for relaxation of the ban on Grenfell type cladding just days after the fire’s third anniversary.
Chaos descends into Farce
Locally it was the first virtual Council meeting – saying farewell to the old Mayor and welcoming the new one. Except it was a virtual meeting and there was an ‘introduction scrum’ at the start.
Chris-ley Karen du Firmison announced themselves, followed by Olli-bill-ene The r-man-wick a second later.
Then there was a point of order about block voting by party leaders. The electronic “show of hands” showed that some councillors couldn’t vote because their tech didn’t work withWBC’s tech, so it was back to the verbals again.
Malcolm the Silent
But the ‘virtual’ trials and tribulations were far from over.
Maybe it was the newMayor or the way he muted his microphone but left the video on. Maybe it was just ‘Gremlins’.
Eitherway, when it was time for him to speak,
he (“Unmute please”) started talking but we (“switch yourmic. ON”) couldn’t hearwhat (“MALCOLM– UNMUTE”!!!) he was saying.
MeanwhileWBC’s answers were well up to the usual standard, vis:
I wanted to give you a short answer.
But I thought you’d understand it.
So I gave you a long one instead.
Audio qualitywas so bad that an officer questioned a Conservative member after he’d voted “AGAINST” his own party’s candidate – because they hadn’t heard him.
Comparing us with other councils, why does WBC technology give such poor results and why aren’t more Councillors using some of their £500 annual IT allowance to get audio and video that everyone can see and hear ?
Out of their Mouths …
Through lockdown, the leader of the Council has ledWokingham Borough well and done a great job for care home residents, helping Wokingham to stand firm against Government diktat.
Yet this weekend, he’s blundered in his social media comms, apparently learning little from the conflation problem he had in Council.
Aren’t there any social-media savvy Conservatives who can work with him to help?
Barbecue of the vanities — Total Recall
WBC issued a “recall notice” for their press release announcing their refusal to renew a popularWokinghamTrader’s license. It’s a welcome sign ofWBC’s desire for factual accuracy. caveat.lector@icloud.com