Rishi Sunak's United Kingdom

[tiffer24]

Boris Johnson reversed course on the UK's unconventional "rapidly build herd immunity" approach after advisers discovered in recent days that hundreds of thousands of people would die.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-uk-strategy-deaths

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Boris Johnson reversed course on the UK's unconventional "rapidly build herd immunity" approach after advisers discovered in recent days that hundreds of thousands of people would die.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-uk-strategy-deaths

Geez, that's going to end well.

AoD

 

[Videodrome]

I have a friend on FB who I went to school with but moved back to the UK, and for someone who has supported Boris and his Brexit stuff, she is beyond pissed at him over the coronavirus situation.

 

[AlbertC]

'Nonchalant': Boris Johnson accused of Covid-19 complacency

Government ‘too slow to act’ and ministers have failed to lead by example, health experts say

Heather Stewart, Matthew Weaver and Kate Proctor
Fri 27 Mar 2020 19.38 GMT

Boris Johnson was accused of failing to heed his own advice to the public over how to contain coronavirus on Friday as it emerged that he and other key government figures had themselves contracted Covid-19.

On a day of extraordinary developments at the heart of the operation to counter the virus, both the prime minister and health secretary, Matt Hancock, said they had tested positive. The chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, also reported symptoms and went into self-isolation.

But while Johnson said he would be able to continue to run the government’s response to the crisis alone in his Downing Street flat, public health experts rounded on his attitude to the infection and accused him of being “nonchalant” and “slow” to behave appropriately.

The prime minister has previously been accused of failing to keep an appropriate distance from other senior figures in public, and has continued with parliamentary duties this week, raising the possibility that he may have infected others in the cabinet and beyond.

'Nonchalant': Boris Johnson accused of Covid-19 complacency

Government ‘too slow to act’ and ministers have failed to lead by example, health experts say

www.theguardian.com

 

[AlbertC]

Coronavirus: Number of UK deaths rises above 1,000

The number of people to have died with the coronavirus in the UK has reached 1,019.

The latest government figures on Saturday showed there were another 260 deaths in the UK in a day, up from 759 on Friday.

There are now 17,089 confirmed cases in the UK.

Coronavirus: Number of UK deaths rises above 1,000

UK deaths have reached 1,019, as the government ramps up testing for frontline hospital staff.

www.bbc.com

 

[AlbertC]

Fruit and veg ‘will run out’ unless Britain charters planes to fly in farm workers from eastern Europe

UK urgently needs 90,000 labourers to pick crops that will otherwise die in the fields, warns charity

Jamie Doward
Sat 28 Mar 2020 17.05 GMT

Fruit and veg âwill run outâ unless Britain charters planes to fly in farm workers from eastern Europe

UK urgently needs to fill 90,000 positions to pick crops that will otherwise die in the fields, warns charity

www.theguardian.com

 

[Towered]

Fruit and veg ‘will run out’ unless Britain charters planes to fly in farm workers from eastern Europe

UK urgently needs 90,000 labourers to pick crops that will otherwise die in the fields, warns charity

Jamie Doward
Sat 28 Mar 2020 17.05 GMT

Fruit and veg âwill run outâ unless Britain charters planes to fly in farm workers from eastern Europe

UK urgently needs to fill 90,000 positions to pick crops that will otherwise die in the fields, warns charity

www.theguardian.com

Do they mean those foreign workers that caused Brexit to happen? LOL!

 

[AlbertC]

Coronavirus: Six months before UK 'returns to normal' - deputy chief medical officer

It could be six months before life in the UK returns to "normal", England's deputy chief medical officer has said.

Speaking at the government's daily coronavirus briefing, Dr Jenny Harries added: "This is not to say we would be in complete lockdown for six months."

But, she continued, the UK had to be "responsible" in its actions and reduce social distancing measures "gradually".

It comes as the number of people in the UK to have died with coronavirus reached 1,228.

Coronavirus: Six months before UK 'returns to normal' - deputy chief medical officer

The UK faces reviews of measures every three weeks for six months or more, says deputy chief medical officer.

www.bbc.com

 

[AlbertC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1251563504118771712

https://twitter.com/x/status/1251563508413718528

 

[AlbertC]

Tories on defensive as criticism grows of early handling of coronavirus

Shortages of PPE set to continue and testing behind schedule after Gove admits Johnson missed key Cobra meetings

Boris Johnson’s government has come under pressure to defend its handling of the coronavirus pandemic after Michael Gove was forced to admit that the prime minister had missed five key emergency meetings when the crisis first hit.

With ministers warning that shortages of protective medical gear could continue, test rates remaining stubbornly low and the hospital death toll rising on Sunday to 16,060, some Conservative MPs have expressed private concern that Downing Street does not have a strong grip on the crisis.

Johnson’s role in the decision-making over crucial weeks before the UK-wide lockdown now risks becoming a symbol of that perceived inattention, with Labour saying the prime minister appeared to have been “missing in action” at the time.

His de facto deputy, Gove, sent out on a broadcast round, initially refused to comment on a report in the Sunday Times – which also claims that 279,000 of the UK’s shrinking PPE stockpile was sent to China – saying Johnson had missed five meetings of the government’s Cobra emergency committee in late January and February while he was taking a break at a government country retreat.

PM Boris Johnson was ‘missing in action’ during early phase of pandemic, claims Labour

Shortages of PPE set to continue and testing behind schedule after Gove admits Johnson missed key Cobra meetings

www.theguardian.com

 

[AlbertC]

‘Complacent’ UK draws global criticism for Covid-19 response

Wed 6 May 2020 15.51 BST

From Italy to Australia, critics have accused a “complacent” British government of “massively underestimating” the gravity of the coronavirus crisis after the UK reported the highest death toll in Europe.

While Rai Uno, the Italian state broadcaster’s flagship channel, gave prominent play to the news that Britain had recorded “more than 32,000 deaths, the highest total in Europe exceeding even Italy”, the Corriere della Serra daily went a good way further.

The situation in the UK was “like a nightmare from which you cannot awake, but in which you landed because of your own fault or stupidity”, the influential liberal-conservative paper said, adding that Britain seemed “a prisoner of itself”.

The country that was “the most reluctant in Europe to impose a lockdown has become the most cautious to start reopening”, with public opinion frightened of the consequences and Boris Johnson eager to avoid breaking Italy’s “sad record”.

âComplacentâ UK draws global criticism for Covid-19 response

Opinion writers from Italy to Australia attack ‘stupidity’ and label Boris Johnson incompetent

www.theguardian.com

 

[tiffer24]

Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced mutiny in his party and fury across Britain on Monday for refusing to sack his closest aide, Dominic Cummings, who is accused of flouting the coronavirus lockdown by driving 400 kilometres from London.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uk-boris-johnson-dominic-cummings-coronavirus-lockdown-1.5583033

 

[Videodrome]

It doesn't help that Labour has a good leader now, one who purged the Corbyn people.

 

[AlbertC]

Tory anger at Dominic Cummings grows as 61 MPs defy Boris Johnson

MPs break ranks to criticise PM’s chief of staff, with 44 calling for him to quit or be sacked

Tory anger at Dominic Cummings grows as 61 MPs defy Boris Johnson

MPs break ranks to criticise PM’s chief of staff, with 44 calling for him to quit or be sacked

www.theguardian.com

 

[AlbertC]

U.K.'s Boris Johnson faces schools rebellion over plans to send kids back

"There is no such thing as social distancing in a school — it does not exist and would never exist," one principal wrote in an open letter to parents.

May 28, 2020

As many as 1,500 schools in England may disobey the government: That's the number covered by the 18 city and regional councils saying they are willing to defy any such order unless there is further assurance that teachers, parents and kids aren't at unnecessary risk from COVID-19.

There are around 24,000 schools and 343 councils in England.

For many Brits, trust in the government declined further last weekend when Johnson resisted mounting pressure to fire his top adviser, Dominic Cummings. It emerged that Cummings had driven 260 miles to a second family home at the height of the lockdown — while his wife was sick with coronavirus symptoms.

The revelation provoked fury in the United Kingdom, which has the second-highest death toll in the world, with at least 47,000 recorded deaths involving COVID-19.

Johnson has been accused of failing to introduce social distancing measures as soon as he should have, not stocking enough personal protective equipment for health workers, needlessly exposing nursing homes to the virus and bungling his testing strategy.

U.K.'s Boris Johnson faces schools rebellion over plans to send kids back

"There is no such thing as social distancing in a school — it does not exist and would never exist," one principal wrote in an open letter to parents.

www.nbcnews.com