It's a shame that so many people are straining to criticise the NHS and, through them, the government without even trying to understand the issues they are faced with.
How do you think Boris has handled it so far ?
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It's a shame that so many people are straining to criticise the NHS and, through them, the government without even trying to understand the issues they are faced with.
Doesn't help that all kinds of companies are buying up supplies of PPE to try and sell into the NHS. I've seen IT resellers who normally sell laptops etc, now claiming they have access to suitable PPE for the NHS frontline. If these opportunistic companies weren't buying up the stuff and inventory was left for existing suppliers to the NHS that would probably have helped.
But I have no idea how you control that
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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comments elsewhere suggest one of the companies in the Guardian article was nothing more than a reseller, dont have any stock here, its factory abroad but not reported as that. there's been a lot of this played out in media, companies maybe well meaning, maybe not, talking up their business. theres established NHS procurement to go through, companies attempt to call the minister or department or health then and find things dont go smoothly. problem is partly of their own making suggesting to industry to go direct.
Kneon Light
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Thanks. Geting there just very slowly!
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
I'd love this to be true, but don't think it will ever happen. The tabloid press, and even the broadsheets now, completely ignored Leveson.
Will be interesting to see what happens in the MOS trial with Meghan Markle, hopefully they'll be exposed for the hate campaign against her.
nicko31
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The government bottled it on Leveson, they didn't see it through to its proper conclusion. Just too many mates to upset.
TV news & current affairs in the UK has been doing a pretty decent job. You only have to look across the pond to see what happens when you don't have proper regulation, tribal warfare and an absence of trust
- Jul 10, 2003
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I have to say that I think the standard of Journalism, particularly political journalism has been declining steadily over the last few years.
They seem unprepared to put in the work, are incapable of learning facts or detail, have given up on any investigative work as too complicated, and now simply spew forth popularist, shallow sound bites to appeal to the lowest common denominator to get their audiences/advertising/clicks. I don't know where they could have got that idea from.
Still, don't they say we get the journalists we deserve
spring hall convert
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'we've been guided by the science'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...secret-scientific-advisory-group-for-covid-19
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...secret-scientific-advisory-group-for-covid-19
Come now, everyone knows everyone who worked for Vote Leave was also a world class virologist. It was one of the main entry criteria.
Machiavelli
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That's a six word slogan. Obviously nothing to do with DC
spring hall convert
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I wouldn't have thought so.
cjd
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Any thoughts of mine that perhaps Boris Johnson might come good, went out of the window after I read that article.
melias shoes
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- Oct 14, 2010
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Good to hear.
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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well not really, though probably what you're supposed to conclude. the story tells us is he was at a meeting same day as government announced the lockdown, the policy that scientists support.
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**** me - Cummings & Warner have been attending the SAGE meetings. Not so independent now are they - let’s name the members of SAGE and publish their advice.
Jimmy Grimble
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It said they had been at meetings, plural, and also involved in forming advice
Do you think they should have been?
Who is criticising the NHS? Certainly not me.
