I've been trying to be supportive of the government in the sense that there are a lot of dilemmas and although they weren't doing great it wasn't easy.
But that all changed yesterday for me with Hancock. It was such blatant lying and mis-representation and self congratulation regarding care homes that I no longer have any confidence in any of them.
Despite my many past criticisms of this government, back at the start of this crisis I was still prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt and assumed that they would do all they possibly could to ensure that this country was spared from the very worst effects of Covid-19 when it first reached these islands.
Sadly, it seems as though I should have been much more worried about the way the government responded at the start. As I have said before, it was never going to be possible to keep the virus out of the UK completely as long as it was around and sadly, some deaths were always going to be inevitable. However, there is no way that this country, given our resources and also in view of the fact that we had rather more warning about the coming of this virus than many others countries had, should now have a death toll of circa 35,000. That for me is nothing short of a national scandal. If our death toll was no worse or not a great deal worse than that of Germany (latest figure I saw for there was around 7.5K deaths from Covid-19), there would have been far fewer grounds for people to have criticised HMGs' response.
Once this is over, there will need to be a long and searching inquiry in this country to find out why this crisis wasn't better handled from the beginning.
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Lenzie, Glasgow
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