Opinions on how the Government have handled the coronavirus outbreak

[SteveTheShadow]

The quotes just keep coming. How about this one:

The Government was throwing ever ounce of its giant resources into the grim preparations for a fantastic gamble against death

It’s be funny if it wasn’t so serious.

[CN211276]

This is brexit with dead bodies.

[savvypaul]

More than 5,000 rough sleepers were offered emergency accommodation as coronavirus unfolded, including in hotels, as part of a scheme called 'Everyone In'.

Luke Hall, the government's Homelessness Minister, has suggested that the homeless could now 'move back in with family and friends'.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... t-22133293

[CN211276]

This is brexit with dead bodies.

Very true. The same two f**k wits hell bent on pulling the wool over everyones eyes.

[slinger]

Serco wins Covid-19 test-and-trace contract despite £1m fine
Serco, one of the companies that has secured a lucrative government contract for the Covid contact-tracing programme, was fined more than £1m for failures on another government contract just months ago, the Observer has learned.

The revelation has led to campaigners against the privatisation of public services to call for the £45.8m test-and-trace contract to be cancelled.

Serco has a range of government contracts both in the UK and overseas, much of it focused on criminal justice and immigration. It has already had to apologise after breaching data protection rules on its test-and-trace contract by inadvertently revealing the email addresses of new recruits. The junior health minister, Edward Argar, is a former Serco lobbyist.

Serco, whose chief executive is Rupert Soames, grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, is one of a number of companies that has contracts with the Home Office to provide accommodation for asylum seekers. As a result of failures in this contract in 2019, Serco was fined more than £1m by the government, but no breakdown of the failures has been disclosed in a freedom of information response obtained by the Scottish Refugee Council after a six-month battle.

This latest fine does not appear to have hampered Serco’s ability to win a raft of government contracts in recent months. According to the company’s website, alongside the test-and-trace contract, it secured an £800m 10-year prisoner escort-and-custody contract in October 2019, and in February this year a new contract, valued at £200m, to manage two immigration removal centres close to Gatwick airport.

Serco has received larger fines in the past, notably more than £19m as part of a settlement with the Serious Fraud Office over failures in electronic tagging dating back to 2010.

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I can't believe that The Observer missed mentioning that Serco boss Rupert Soames, as well as being the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, is brother to the rather obnoxious Tory MP Nicholas Soames. So there's yet another Tory party affiliation to Serco.

[slinger]

Schools will not reopen fully before September.

The issues stated are numbers of classrooms and teachers, given the requirements for social distancing.

How will that have changed, come September?

[Grumpytim]

This 'government' behave exactly like a CEO I once had the misfortune of working with. He freely admitted that his approach to gnarly or difficult issues was to keep kicking the can down the road in the hope that eventually someone would pick the it up and deal with the problem. Unfortunately he's not in a minority in this country or the states. The current crop of fornicating baboons infesting the Tory front bench resemble far too closely the ineffective MBA'd apparatchiks that came through my old company in waves attached to whichever underachieving CEO they were in patronage to. The only competence that I could detect was their unity and solidity as a group.

The sad thing is that 2 out of 3 of them are now in relatively influential jobs, which for the country is problematic as I wouldn't trust either of them to sit the right way round on a toilet without arrows on the floor and adult supervision.

[slinger]

Schools will not reopen fully before September.

The issues stated are numbers of classrooms and teachers, given the requirements for social distancing.

How will that have changed, come September?

The only difference will be that the goalposts will have quietly been moved.

[savvypaul]

Schools will not reopen fully before September.

The issues stated are numbers of classrooms and teachers, given the requirements for social distancing.

How will that have changed, come September?

The only difference will be that the goalposts will have quietly been moved.

I'm expecting something similar to the PPE fiasco...

NHS to Staff: These are the PPE regulations.
Staff to NHS: We don't have enough of it.
NHS to Government: We are running out of PPE.
Government to NHS: Please rewrite the PPE regulations.

[slinger]

The "scientists" and the NHS are already being set up to take the fall for most of the government's balls-ups.