Had to go into work to collect some stuff this morning and saw a lone trial biker  zooming along The Ridgeway in South Oxfordshire near Chilton.

I don't think  it ticks  either the "necessary" or "exercise" boxes but I suppose being solitary there isn't much of a risk.  My contrast, having a brief chat with my neighbour (from opposite sides of the road) and he saw a group of similar taking advantage of  an abandoned golf course site.  He thought it was all OK, until  fro some unexplainable reason they all swapped helmets

Originally Posted by: Bugglesgate 

Agree . If it wasn't a matter of life and death there would be amusement value in seeing Corbyn, Burgon and Long-Bailey running the show.

My complaints about the current government in the current crisis are:

1) Lack of testing

2) Poor and muddled communication (although to be fair the scientists have probably made things worse by speaking too frequently) 

3) Lack of PPE

On the plus side they have moved quickly to mitigate some of the economic impacts. They are also pulling the levers in the NHS and trying to make things happen. Unfortunately that gets to my main bone of contention which is the NHS itself. For decades politicians of all colours have refused to discuss provision of healthcare in a grown up way in the UK.

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

You know what I hope Brian. That after this is over, the NHS is no longer a political football. I believe it should be a cross party ring fenced asset.

It would have to be a cross party ‘board’ that looks after it’s interests and not the party of government at the time.

I think this crisis will bring about change across the board. 

Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 

Had to go into work to collect some stuff this morning and saw a lone trial biker  zooming along The Ridgeway in South Oxfordshire near Chilton.

I don't think  it ticks  either the "necessary" or "exercise" boxes but I suppose being solitary there isn't much of a risk.  By contrast, having a brief chat with my neighbour (from opposite sides of the road) and he saw a group of similar taking advantage of  an abandoned golf course construction site.  He thought it was all OK, until  for some unexplainable reason they all swapped helmets and visors

It's difficult to think of a better way of spreading it around really

Originally Posted by: Bugglesgate 

Thank you Xioni :) 

Look Gandalf, I don’t want to keep giving out and I don’t want to come across that I am whinging. 

I realise the government have a difficult task, near impossible at times. But this is is their job - No government should ever not assume the next crisis is very far away.

Im pleased they give daily updates, and these are an important steps forward and the government are now moving in the right direction with many things.

However, while you have frontline workers still saying they are not adequately protected it’s our duty to call this out. Positive platitudes are all well an good, but these are no good if we don’t have the basic equipment for our fantastic health workers to do their job. A number of weeks now we have been promised this is coming - and it must. The government should not be above criticism even in a crisis.

I don’t want to argue. We are all approaching this crisis in different ways. 

Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 

What nits u mean

Originally Posted by: Polar Low