Response to Covid at best is a shambles

LOOKING at the Tory party conference, held online this year, it seems to have been a disaster, with the first half-hour of some speeches delivered only to the cameraman because no-one outside the studio could dial in.

Business chief executives were left staring at a buffering screen for an hour instead of getting the discussion with the Prime Minister they had paid for, an expensive error when the average FTSE100 CEO is paid £20,000 a day.

Apparently some of the corporations which paid the party £40,000 in order to increase their influence over the way this country is run are now demanding their money back.

But is any of this a surprise, when the track and trace system which the Government subcontracted to outsourcing companies is failing to do its job despite

Boris Johnson blustering that it would be world-beating, and underfunded Public Health England lost 16,000 Covid cases because they fell off the bottom of a spreadsheet which had too few rows because it was an antiquated version?

This Conservative Government doesn’t trust local government and has cut its resources to the bone.

The Government’s response to coronavirus has been a shambles at best, not involving local teams in contact tracing so people can self isolate has meant unnecessary restrictions for many, and a greater virus transmission than there should have been, with people wandering around not knowing they could be infected, and infecting other people.

Phil Tate, via email