Videos are back. Mark is feeling better.
My sense of pessimism about the government's response to the crisis that we face continues, however:
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Thanks for not making an issue of the different systems. The numbers are going in the right direction here in Scotland, the whole country doesn’t need the same level of lockdown (no virus in most of the Highlands & Islands for eg outside the Central Belt things are better.
Our test and trace is actually functioning because it is actually run by the NHS (just outsourced to a call centre to add extra capacity) so ScotGov, LEA’s & Health Boards (no Trusts here, no Internal Market) all have granular local pictures of where the virus is and at what level. Contacts are traced and told to isolate. Getting close to international best practice but need to copy Wales and close our border with England.
My son in Wales (age, 18) appears quite unconcerned that there is a border between him and Dad right now
Spot on. Meltdown. Indisputably. And the Government seemingly indifferetnt, or ignorant. The crisis to come. Surely we can all see this. And you rightly make no mention of the other crisis to come. Br****t. But that is a crisis we hgave eventually to face. Eventually – in about 12 weeks, or 90 odd days. The Government navigating the rickety leaking tub of a ship, SS Great Britain, through the heaving waves towards the reefs and cliffs, getting ever closer to the wreck site. Businesses, the logistics sector, exporters, all crying out ever more loudly that they cannot prepare for the crisis because they are given no clear message by de Pfeffel and his crew, and that preparations don’t seem to be in any state of readiness.
Syrely de Pfeffel has to ask for some sort of transition extension. Surely he has to bite the bullet and face up to the ERG cult members. Surely he will have to do a U-turn. Surely the mass of Tory MPs must accept that they have a buffoon leading them and in charge of the destiny of this country (countries). Surely they are going to have to move against him and find someone, anyone, who can at least steer the rickety leaking tub out away from the hostile coast.
Perhaps we could have some sort of Government of National Unity – an alliance, a coalition of moderate Tories (if there are any), Labour, Scots and Welsh nationalists, Lib Dems, the Green. That is what will be needed.
This is logical. Sadly we have had to deal with the raw emotion of a religion since before 2016. Think hair shirts, self flagellation, the rack and auto da fe in the context of Brexit.