Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[peteblue]

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Then please enlighten us all......

 

[peteblue]

It would need ministerial level sign-off Pete.

So are you saying that things are not being signed off. With the daily criticism coming their way from every man and his dog, I would have thought that any ministerial signature would have been put on at a great rate of knots.....

 

[peteblue]

Give it a rest ffs. You’ve slowly morphed into Comical Ali, it’s beyond embarrassing now.

And your daily contribution is up to your normally low standards.....

 

[peteblue]

*chinese fru

I was going to write ‘Fru’ it is the best word every written on this site....

 

[Bruce Wayne]

NHS procurement is done by this fella

Jin Sahota interview: How government procurement reforms are unlocking millions for the NHS

Jin Sahota is the government procurement expert in charge of unlocking billions for the NHS frontline at a time of record demand. He reflects on th...

www.civilserviceworld.com

I have no idea how they procure, what they've done to change since February, or what challenges they've faced in doing so. It seems we have a lot of people above who do know the answer to all of those questions as lots have made up their mind as to who is to blame. Any ideas?

 

[mill]

The state of our CS is actually very worrying. There are 365 Conservative MP’s who may or may not be in office for ten years. Meanwhile we have a public sector of over 5,000,000 who are in post for life. The great majority of these are doing a great job. The management of the CS and Public bodies is the concern because these are the people who are supposed to carry out government policy and too often they fail and ministers make excuses for them. That pillock who Patel got rid of at the home office may be an extreme case of incompetence, yet somehow I doubt it.

We have a major National crisis playing out. We have front line NHS workers doing what they should be doing, it’s about time the employees with the grandiose titles and large salaries pulled their fingers out. It might also help if the media and various parties stopped playing politics and got behind the effort......

Where are you getting 5m from?

Civil service staff numbers | Institute for Government

Who exactly are civil servants and how many are there?

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk

 

[Neiler]

Way to go Kiwis!

Its all a conspiracy, strong rumors that the virus was started by a Kiwi, eating Tim Tams in a tree house built on a 5g mast on Stewart Island.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

And your daily contribution is up to your normally low standards.....

Seriously Pete, your slavish devotion to this utter shambles of a Tory Govt and the incessant apologist crap you post trying to blame shift and cover for their complete and utter failure, is not only embarrassing, it’s an insult to the intelligence of posters on here, as you’re either as dense as granite (which I don’t believe) or you’re trying to mislead people deliberately.

 

[orly]

So are you saying that things are not being signed off. With the daily criticism coming their way from every man and his dog, I would have thought that any ministerial signature would have been put on at a great rate of knots.....

So without any proper consideration, just signed and moved on? Have you any idea how many reactive policy changes are needed at the moment?

 

[peteblue]

Pete it's not our NHS bureaucrats that are standing in front of a camera and lying to millions, is it ? It's our front line ministers. They have let us down and have not the decency to apologize for it.

Please just think it through. Can you really imagine that a minister would go out on a limb, deliberately lie, open themselves wide up to anyone wanting to push out a malicious leak, and yet gain absolutely no benefit from saying what he said. Really.....

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Equally, I have no idea what has happened to NHS procurement since the Carter review was so scathing of it. Any of the procurement wizard's know?

 

[tsubaki]

Please just think it through. Can you really imagine that a minister would go out on a limb, deliberately lie, open themselves wide up to anyone wanting to push out a malicious leak, and yet gain absolutely no benefit from saying what he said. Really.....

They’ve done that already during this crisis, Pete.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Its all a conspiracy, strong rumors that the virus was started by a Kiwi, eating Tim Tams in a tree house built on a 5g mast on Stewart Island.

Eric is a smart guy. He did a review of NHS staffing requirements last year if you're interested - https://topol.hee.nhs.uk/. In the interests of transparency, he is American, so do feel free to toss in the usual privatisation stuff.

 

[orly]

That should be printed on the front of all his posts, like warnings on cigarette packets

He genuinely doesn't, but unlike the Tory "Socialist" who also Farage-like points the finger at the CS, at least he can spell.

 

[mahermi1]

Please just think it through. Can you really imagine that a minister would go out on a limb, deliberately lie, open themselves wide up to anyone wanting to push out a malicious leak, and yet gain absolutely no benefit from saying what he said. Really.....

Yes I can, why because they are desperate, to be honest the only thing they have done well throughout this pandemic crisis, is the financial part, furlough as such, but then again you would expect that from a Tory government, wouldn't you.
Hospital shortages of PPE, ventilators, our Doctors and Nurses and Healthcare staff dying through it. Lying or not even knowing about the true figures of how many of our Healthcare staff are dying. Piers Morgan has destroyed any of your credibility Pete, then you have Hancock, blaming the lack of PPE on Doctors and Nurses, while they are dying, shameful. The hidden tragedy of Nursing homes, my god, seriously does that not make you doubt your Tory credentials ? They look as if they've just been brushed under a very thick carpet.
From the very beginning our government has looked amateurish, a prime minister who missed four out of five Cobra meetings, dealing with the heath of our nation, Boris was more interested in....Brexit, that will be what is on his political tombstone. Boris and his government have simply failed us Pete, but at the very least, this is one thing that the people will remember, not just their tax cuts...