22-12-2021, 08:55 PM
(21-12-2021, 10:31 AM)Tufnell_Chimes Wrote:(21-12-2021, 09:24 AM)Jizbag Wrote: I'll tell you something Tuffers...our lives would be far worse under a Labour government.
Well Jiz, I don't know what kind of metric you'd use to back that up, but there are a few things we can safely assume:
- A Labour leader would not have ignored the first five COBRA meetings
- A Labour leader would have locked down earlier - before the February half-term and would not have let all those on skiing holidays in the Bergamo region the just walk back into the country untested
- A Labour leader would not have allowed elderly Covid-infected hospital patients to be sent back into their care homes untested
- A Labour leader would not have created a VIP supply line channel to enrich their mates
- A Labour leader would have ensured that all those supplying PPE actually have experience in medical equipment and not a pub landlord
- A Labour leader would not have commissioned Brexit-supporter James Dyson to invent a brand new intubator - they would have used the companies that already had intubators in stock and ready to go - under johnson their calls went unanswered
- A Labour leader would have stuck to the rules that they had set for everyone else
- A Labour leader would not have created Eat Out to Spread It About, or promoted Freedom Day! or any other feel-good-but-with-a-huge-cost bollocks
- A Labour leader would have instilled a greater sense of trust throughout the population and we'd have seen a more responsible response to wearing masks and taking vaccinations.
- And lastly, a Labour leader and a Labour government would have had every move scrutinised and analysed by a tory press.
So a Labour leader may have installed lockdowns earlier and for longer, but on the upside they'd probably be around 60,000 people still alive rather than dead under the tories.
Just saw this. While I'm centre-left, you do realise the Labour leader you're talking about would've been Corbyn??
He'd have spent every Cobra meeting deciding what name to call the virus without offending it, Dianne would've estimated the vaccine roll-out cost at around £3.50, and McDonnell would've lost it with any interviewer who questioned that. While most Labour governments might have handled things better...that one wouldn't.