The PM's tested positive for Covid-19

If you watch the remains of the day with Anthony Hopkins which is a true story of a butler before the war there’s some very interesting instances of our govt at the time .
Chamberlain may have been gullible but in secret he was trying to form alliances with the gentry at the time and also secret meetings with NAZI top brass .
These NZIS were actually reporting back about the art in some of these lords mansions in the aftermath of an invasion and a shopping list for Berlin.

 

It's a very sobering graph above and probably explains our current predicament . Yes you can lay the blame along party lines but that blame lies on both sides . It certainly seems to me something far more sestemic is wrong here , why we are struggling . Maybe a culture of deadbeat middle managers cutting this and that to make a living while systematically screwing us all over . People will do anything for a little extra cash....

 

Scary to be honest. At the same time I will be impressed if any country will have enough beds to deal with this adequately though. That doesn't make the decrease in beds right of course.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...gear-for-nhs-staff-was-rejected-owing-to-cost

Then we have PPE.

 

How can we have any mother fkin bastrd motherfcker like this anywhere near power, HOW?

 

We get the politicians we deserve. People voted for this so it’s on them

 

Yeah, but what are your opinions on Brexit though ?

 

Marlon, the Remains of the Day isn't factual, if we're talking about the same thing it's a novel by a Japanese author...whose name I cannot remember.

 

Shocking.

 

Ahh sorry I thought although the actual story wasn’t factual the incidents in the story were . My bad if not .

 

It's not just us . Pretty much every country in the world has made the same errors ( no spare capacity ) . Even military field hospitals , common especially during the cold war have all been broken up and all those vital skills now needed lost forever . I would not mind , the money's been there all along ......take the foreign aid budget of 12 billion per year . Just think if that had been directed into international healthcare instead . We could have manufactured and given away for free vital healthcare equipment to more needy countries and with some of the rudimentary ventilators being designed at the moment at little cost .

 

Kazuo Ishiguro. We studied it in A level English. You're correct it isn't a factual account.

 

As I said all along, I think Brad Potts should have been in charge of it.

 

Not much sympathy online. Only have to go to Twitter and type in '@borisjohnson die' to see the #bekind campaign from when Caroline Flack died is a long time over.

 

Agreed! Better than selling them weapons!

 

On the wing ?

 

I guess they have to balance the risk of something like this happening against the finite amount of cash they have to budget. It hasn't happened on this scale in our lifetimes. What is perhaps unforgiveable however is the lack of adequate PPE. That is likely to be much cheaper than keeping huge numbers of beds available just in case.

 

Sounds like Chris Whitty has it now too. Who's been running round dishing out high fives?!

 

Probably same people who were burning effigys of Thatcher when she died.

 

His replacement is Simon Droll.

Then as things get worse the surname gradually becomes more sombre.

Perhaps we could compile a descending list.