Iains - blah blah Labour.. blah blah Corbyn.. blah blah blah....

..any thing to distract from tory Govt covid response f@ckups...

It is a thread on UK politics. Remember?
You had many other threads to discuss the covid virus but you all politicised one of them and lost it.
Who did or did not do what in terms of whose government response to scientific advice is a matter to discuss when all the facts are known.
All that is happening at the moment is that the media are rolling out so called experts as fast as they can providing they have an agenda and attempt to smear, denigrate and generally find fault with everything the government is doing. And all you lefties are doing is parroting their allegations so long as it argues against the actions the government is taking., Never have so many "experts" on epidemeology been seen concentrated among the left posting on this forum. You all seem to know so much better than the government, but just think how much worse the response would have been had we 10years of corbyn misrule. The coffers would have been empty, the magic money tree shaken to death and crisis management would have been the stuff of nightmares. Labours election manifesto was so lacking in credibility it sent their own supporters away in droves yet you seem to think the tory government is incompetant.
If the tories are incompetant what word adaquately describes Labour?
The party itself is in crisis(so bad even the Guardian is afraid to comment)how on earth could it deal with an external crisis simultaneously?
You also seem to forget the only surefire cure for the virus is not to get it. The death rate from it is what it is - all government can do is try to keep the rate of spread to manageable levels in order hospitals are not overwhelmed. Thus far it would seem to have worked.
The total deaths reported in Italy Spain and France are higher than the UK thus far. But the raw figures are raw and likely not directly comparable. Fully 25% of UK deaths are in London, a huge metropolis with the biggest airport in Europe handling in 2018 80 million passengers. The miracle is that the figures are not significantly higher in London. The great God of globalism not only brought the virus to our shores but largely offshored the means of combating it.
I am still not entirely onboard with the view the virus was a chance interspecies transfer in a wet market, especially with a insecure biohhazard reaseach lab at the end of the road in the same town. Was not Fort derrick in the States shut last year for breaching biosecurity protocols?
You should really be praising the work of the governnment because even you lefties in your   heart of hearts recognise that with Corbyn   at the helm catastrophe   would not even beginn to describe the situation.