You can’t blame the Government for crisis
IN his letter to the published on May 28, Trevor Woolley blames the Government for getting “most things” wrong during the pandemic.
Anyone would think from his accusations that coronavirus was part of Government policy, but as we all know now the Left’s sole job is to moan, criticise and generally Government bash, something which is now euphemistically called “holding the Government to account”.
First of all PPE is nothing to do with the Government, it is entirely the responsibility of the NHS. Only when the NHS with its hundreds if not thousands of “managers” earning more than £100k/annum failed to anticipate the need for a cache of 5 billion pieces of PPE equipment did the Government have to step in and try and secure it, when every country in the world was doing exactly the same thing, at a time when every business which makes it was closed due to the pandemic. Talk about
being handed a poisoned chalice.
Even if the NHS Managers had exercised the skill of Mystic Meg and stockpiled all that PPE, we would have wanted the heads of these managers on pikestaffs for having spent umpteen billions of pounds in securing it ‘just in case.’
Then we come to the most over-hyped story in the history of journalism – that of Dominic Cummings and his ill-advised car trips. I should stress I carry no torch for Cummings who I regard as a scruffy, ill-mannered oik. However the incessant hypocritical media-led witch hunt has seen more TV time and column inches of newsprint wasted than in any story in history.
Despite the Durham Police publically stating that his trip to Durham broke no law or rule at all, and that his trip to Barnard Castle was a minor breach of the lockdown regulations which warrants no action, we have hoards of journalists and photographers crowded check by jowl around him, putting their own lives and his at serious risk of infection.
These hypocritical morons have the brass neck to shout questions at him accusing him of alleged breaches of the lockdown regulations while actively breaching them themselves as they do so.
Given that all the Ministers of the Government are working night and day, and in the case of Johnson, Hancock, and Cummings putting their own lives in danger, in an effort to get us through this crisis, can I respectfully suggest to our Lefty friends that they give a bit of credit where it is due and try to be a bit more supportive, even-handed and less wise after the event.
How does Brexit fit in with outcry?
I HAVE just read Nick Martinek’s letter in which he indicates that he believes the outcry against Dominic Cumming’s actions are all about Brexit.
He has obviously missed the point that most people genuinely believe that Mr Cummings broke the lockdown rules as they had been portrayed to us, the general public.
My understanding is that his wife had symptoms associated with the virus and so in that situation she had to self-isolate for seven days.
As Mr Cummings was not showing the symptoms we were given to believe that he should self-isolate for 14 days.
I am not aware that, at that time, Mr Cummings or their four-year-old child were showing the symptoms. Mr Cummings would therefore be available to take over child-care responsibilities.
However, he subjected himself and his child to spend a long 260-mile car journey in very close proximity to his wife as she was suffering the symptoms.
It’s not a surprise then that all three ended up with coronavirus symptoms. Unfortunately for his child, I understand that this was so bad that the child had to spend a night in hospital.
So where does Brexit come into it?