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PPE procurement, Test and Trace, Nightingale hospitals, ventilators… Sam Bright rebuts the official rhetoric with some facts

“The Government said it did everything it could to get the right equipment.”

This was the official response to this morning’s BBC report, exposing how the Prime Minister was lobbied by billionaire Sir James Dyson to give his firm a tax break, so its staff could build ventilators in the UK at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I am the first lord of the treasury [sic] and you can take it that we are backing you to do what you need,” Boris Johnson reassured Dyson last March, whose firm is headquartered in Singapore. Its staff were thus at risk of tax penalties, if they switched to working in the UK.

This mantra – ‘we did everything we could’ – has been repeated by the Government endlessly during the past 12 months, when questioned by Byline Times and others about the goods and services that it has procured.

A Coronavirus death toll of 150,000 people – the highest in Europe – is a glaring and unavoidable fact that obstructs any claim that the Government excelled during this crisis.

But, on so many levels, aside from its basic (mis)management of the disease through delayed lockdowns and botched, epidemiologically illiterate relaxations, the Government has failed Britain at a time of desperate need.

Ministers have fallen back on a system of favours and inside deals, in turn clamping-down on competition and unleashing rampant cronyism. Given that ministers themselves have been appointed on the basis of their unwavering loyalty to Johnson and Brexit, rather than due to their superior knowledge or talent, this ‘jobs for the boys’ mentality is perhaps unsurprising.

Lobbying scandals involving former Prime Ministers, Johnson’s reliance on a few masters of high finance for his political funding, and the Conservative Party’s general lack of concern for the sources of its donations, are all facts that have further dampened the initial shock that many experienced about the multiple, unfolding stories of cronyism that have been exposed since last March.

The net effect, however, has been an unparalleled national calamity – one that is far from the Government’s evidence-free assertion that it has done everything in its power to quell a public health emergency.

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If you look at deaths per million people, UK come 12th in Europe. and that figure is falling, as the success of the vaccine rollout compared to the rest of Europe continues to show.

How many lives have been endangered by the utterly shambolic and frankly disgusting behaviour by the EU toward Astra Zeneca?

How many lives have been lost in EU countries who were unable to order and obtain vaccines, because from what the media has reported the Lions share of all available vaccines has gone to the UK enabling that country to vaccinate its citizens in Quick time?

Dee

The EU blocked Astra Zeneca for a while, and I find it rather pathetic that they are now suing the company. The EU were able to order vaccines, but they dragged their feet while other countries didn't. They have only themselves to blame, nobody else.

And even now, lots of people on GESY are refusing to use Astra Zeneca. So much so, that non GESY people weren't even given the choice. It made no odds to me, as I was more than happy to take it, but to claim EU lives have been lost because of Astra Zeneca's actions is utter hogwash.

Typical EU bullying tactics.....again!

Aren't the majority of Astra Zeneca vaccines manufactured in the UK with only a residual amount produced within the EU?

JimGW

The death toll of 150.000 is misleading to say the least.

As far as I am aware, no matter what the 'actual' cause of death in the UK, if a patient had tested positive for Covid, then that was listed as the cause of death.

How do we know in what manner other countries decided upon a cause of death, and were they all declaring true numbers.

It's the same old, 'let's knock the UK'.

Jackie

It’s a figure compiled by the ONS. In reality, some of those didn’t die due to Covid, but others with other issues, did die, due to Covid preventing them being treated…. So it’s also important to lool at seasonal differences and those large numbers aren’t far away.

We don’t know what manner other countries report but we also do know the seasonal variations and the UK, an island, has had a horrendous Pandemic. Due in the main to not doing the right things at the right time. It’s all catalogued and you might care to forget, but Johnson in particular has the deaths of 10’s of thousands on his hands.

This thread was about poor purchasing. Dominic has turned it into vaccination and effects - as happens in many threads, where the original thread gets overtaken by other matters.

Well that's just it. Provided people get vaccinated and the cases go down, they don't care about the rest. And to be quite frank, when you go on about all the failings, and ignore the successes, it looks bad on you, not Boris Johnson.

I take your point, Dominic, but the vaccinations are the only success…. We cannot ignore 130,000+ deaths

At the moment people seem more interested in who paid for the decorating.

Dominic wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 1:53 pm At the moment people seem more interested in who paid for the decorating.

I don't think the people give a toss. It's the BBC driving this. There is very little mention of the existing state budget for such things but Boris pays £28k and Dumbsberg thinks "hello, what's that for".