So it turns out that we didn’t miss out on ventilator buying because of some ‘missed emails’ or whatever excuse Gove came up with
This one is something special: Government misses out on 16m facemasks for NHS in four weeksThe equipment is available, but getting sold and exported to other countries because offers are being ignored. This administration looks increasingly unfit for office.
It seems you're not the only one consumed with rage by their performance
Quote from: TobyD on April 21, 2020, 10:45:05 pmIt seems you're not the only one consumed with rage by their performanceI don't think its just me and him either.
I think its worth noting that the article in the new statesman roundly criticized the opposition's performance earlier in the year by being largely absent. I think that politicians of all parties were probably equally complacent.
On this topic, this thread is interesting.https://twitter.com/botzarelli/status/1252231981019979776?s=19Please don't read if you're just here for some good old Tory bashing.
Personally I don't know if the department of health and social care has any centralised procurement facility or whether it's all farmed out to the trusts. It might be that they've been working flat out but the peak in demand has just been too big (and always would be too big, hence the best solution being some quiet building up of stocks).
Caught a snippet of Kier Starmer at PMQ's today - from what I heard his questioning seemed totally on point and nailed the government on their numerous failures. Also caught wind of Rachael Reeves sending a list of ignored UK PPE firms to her opposite number Michael Gove. An encouraging start. Hopefully this will continue now parliament is back. The daily 5PM government unchallenged propaganda session was starting to wear a bit thin.
Caught a snippet of Kier Starmer at PMQ's today
It looks like the target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of the month will be met.The ONS are starting a large scale study of household testing. The study begins on 29th April.