[theo_luddite]

The kind of shit that happens when you tell everyone these are the rules, please abide by them - and the guy pulling his strings breaks them and is backed to the hilt.

You can't have it both ways.

Either he sticks to the rules that he makes up or he stops trying to make them up as he goes along - which is what the useless prat does every day anyway. He did it as a so called journalist, he did it as an MP, he does it regularly with women he's either been married to or (is/was) in an apparently "long term relationship" with (long enough to have a sprog or two anyway), he did it as Mayor of London - why would he be any different as the most useless PM in living memory?

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This afternoon I watched a BBC interview with Dr David Nabarro of the WHO, in which he stated that it was not lockdowns nor punitive restrictions that would beat Covid. It was basic hygiene, mask-wearing and social distancing along with testing and tracing that would do it and we all had to take personal responsibility for doing our bit.

Needless to say, that point of view is not to be found anywhere on the BBC website. It probably doesn't fit in with the required newsworthiness of policy disagreements, unfairness and lack of financial support that seems to be the accepted norm.

If everyone got the basics right, there wouldn't be a pandemic to worry about and write about. Testing and tracing would be relatively easy, the NHS wouldn't be under undue pressure, there would be far fewer cases, hospitalisations and deaths.

Isn't that what we all want? Or do we love complaining far too much to let that happen?

Testing and tracing would be relatively easy - well it is in Thailand and New Zealand for a start, if our Government hadn't given millions of pounds to their mates to (fail several times to) come up with a working system in a field that they have no experience in.

The simple way to do this was to fund local government and the local NHS regions to do this, but no Bodgit doesn't get back handers, sorry, Tory Party donations, from them. Further more, although he might have Tory MP's in the Labour heartlands, they don't have that at local Council level. What we've got as a result is a bag of shit app labelled as NHS so they take the flack while his mates charge us the taxpayer up to £7K a day as consultants. But we don't have enough money to buy a poor kid a £2 a day lunch for a couple of weeks.