I have no particulars political affiliation, and never have. I have voted for all major parties over my lifetime (Labour, Liberal and Conservative). Can you say the same? While I’m fortunate and have never needed the NHS. my partner depended on it for most of his live, right up until he died, and overall it let him down. The service in many hospitals around the world, covering every continent, was far better - and that includes places like India and Senegal! A circuit breaker is a lockdown, and it’s duplicitous to pretend otherwise. Attributing it to ‘Scientists’ is just want all political parties want - they don’t want to actually be left holding the can. We all know all they do is shift the curve. We all were told the purpose was to prevent the NHS being overloaded. It hasn’t been, so Kier Starmer has been proved wrong to call for one when he did, and try to make short term political capital out of pressing for one doesn’t persuade me to vote for him. I still believe the NHS is part of the problem, not the solution, and looking around the world at what works and what doesn’t would be a good start.
Lawyers, on the whole, are bad leaders - I’ve engaged a few in my time. The Welsh are neither here nor there though, how Nicola Sturgeon responds on the other hand will be entertaining :)
I’m fortunate, cases where I live are still well below 100 per 100,000. So not being able to go to the pub or a restaurant seems punitive. A national lockdown was never the right answer. On the plus side, my local has been selling beer at £3 a pint this evening to shift stocks before lockdown and they’re pushed out of business. Along with my friends and neighbours, we’ll be taking a pragmatic approach to the lates interventions, as they make no sense at all at a local level.
It’s worth remembering that around 7 million people are employed in retail, hospitality and entertainment. That’s something to think about as we shut the country down, and broadly those sectors employ people who who should be in Labours heartland. But they’re out of touch and don’t recognise that. Those jobs can and may just disappear. It’s the under 40s who will be paying for ever for this, and that’s also labours heartland. I have no skin in the game at all, but at a human level that doesn’t feel right, and someone should be espousing their cause IMO.
Last edited by: VxFan on Wed 4 Nov 20 at 12:36
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