Tuesday 19 May 2020

Not helpful? I don't care

Firstly, Matt Hancock implied that nurses were over-using PPE and the implications were that they were to blame for the shortage. An NHS doctor - in her online diary -  has challenged Matt Hancock to do her job without adequate protection, finishing with the quote: "Fuck you, Matt Hancock". This is a doctor, not a cleaner.

Now - as predicted - the scientist advisors are being blamed for giving bad advice which caused the cabinet steering group to completely ignore care homes for the elderly, resulting in a huge amount of avoidable deaths.

Pritti Patel has insisted that it should be British workers - presumably taken from the recently registered unemployed 800,000 - who should pick our crops at harvest time, despite that the farms need anyone they can get who can do the job. It's a nice idea, but now is not the time to turn ideals into realities.

One day they stand on the streets applauding the under-paid heroes who are keeping the country running, and the next they seem to be saying that they should go back to their own countries and leave British workers to earn their own money and keep the economy afloat. As if.

I am not saying that Labour could have done any better, because they are all a bunch of politicians, but I am saying that this lot have pretty much fucked-up on every level, and it's not over yet - far from it. People of my age will not live to see it sorted out.

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  1. Not sure if my children will see it sorted either

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    1. They won't see it sorted but they will pay for it for a long time into the future.

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  2. I can't think about it. Vote, vote, vote. I hope that can work for all.

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    1. Voting means nothing when Trump can override the whole system.

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  3. It is just a mess under the old system, we need a new one. Politicians always need to find someone to blame and the knives are out for the scientists.

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    1. Politics is confrontational. That doesn't work under these circumstances. Neither does communism.

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  4. There weren't any difficulties getting students, married women and others to do crop picking and similar jobs in the past when you could turn up on almost a casual basis and be well-paid (as I was in a canning factory).

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    1. These days it would involve a complete change of lifestyle to casually work on seasonal picking. East Enders used to go hop-picking in Kent and Hampshire as a holiday. Gypsies and itinerants traditionally worked in the field, and the system was pretty much the same with E.U. workers. After all this is over, people may - or may not - change their attitude to 'menial' workers.

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  5. The shameful and arrogant level incompetence shown by our government is shocking and unforgivable. Most of us ordinary folk would not have kept our jobs if we had performed so badly.

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    1. This government have proved themselves to be incompetent and inhuman in their approach to tackling the problem. Boris has now got back in the ring, this time defending the decision to charge overseas NHS workers money to have the right to use the health care system which they work for. It disgusts me.

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    2. I did have a fleeting moment of hope that our illustrious prime minister's brush with death would bring out a little humanity in him, but it seems not.

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    3. They began their term of office as a bunch of cunts, and they continue in that vein. They have not risen to the challenge.

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  6. The whole thing has been a shambles from the beginning and I can't say to the end because I believe sadly that we are a very long way from that.

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  7. Really disgusting to read this. (The words I mumble behind my mask about such politicians you don't want to hear).

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    1. I am ashamed, but maybe not quite as ashamed as American citizens should be. I don't know. I don't know much these days.

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