Now is not the time...

[BillyStubbsTears]

This may be the single most hypocritical thing I have ever seen.

https://mobile.twitter.com/aljwhite/status/1241991593806217216

In case you don't know who this Kitson is, it's Steve Hilton. He was Cameron's version of Dominic Cummings. He was the adviser to the PM as Austerity was being planned, refined and implemented.

How do people like this look at themselves in the mirror?

[Colin C No.3]

Oh but they do, time after time, after time.

Cameron’s autobiography was a best seller.

Tony Blair, as recently as 3/4 years ago ‘commanded’ £250,000 for an evening of ‘Why, where, who & if only’s’.

Sickens to the stomach.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Gordon Brown?

He was ridiculed at the time, but my God, THERE was a leader and a man of integrity. As far as I can see,he hasn't made a penny from his role as PM.

[MachoMadness]

I was listening to Brown on the radio recently and I thought, f**king hell, we didn't realise how good we had it with him. Socially awkward, yes. Bit of a knob, most likely. But he was on top of the detail, was calm, was reassuring, was hopeful. Proper leadership. Compare it to the shite we were served up for years after him and it's night and day.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Back in early 2010, when Brown had shown the entire world the correct path out of the GFC, but he'd been ridiculed by a bunch of wittier, more photogenic Flash Harry types, and when it was obvious that he was going to be hammered in the upcoming election, the Times (the TIMES think on...that socialist rag) did a big piece on him. A senior journalist shadowed him for a week. Interviewed him. Listened to him dealing with issues.

The journalist finished off the piece with a comment that has stuck with me. She said (I can't recall the exact words of the first sentence but feeling is right: the second sentence is word for word right)  "Brown is a serious, grown-up politician in an era where image and hype dominate. Maybe we as a country don't deserve to re-elect him."

[BillyStubbsTears]

Here's another question to be asked when this is over.

The Govt was told in late January, unequivocally by the Chief Scientific Advisor, that if CV-19 got out of China, it would explode everywhere.

Wouldn't you think a responsible Govt would start emergency planning IMMEDIATELY?

Look at this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Peston/status/1242353335220539392

An e-mail asking for companies to give up testing devices was sent...on Sunday.

What the actual f**k has been going on this past 2 months?

[RedRover45]

Here's another question to be asked when this is over.

The Govt was told in late March, unequivocally by the Chief Scientific Advisor, that if CV-19 got out of China, it would explode everywhere.

Wouldn't you think a responsible Govt would start emergency planning IMMEDIATELY?

Look at this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Peston/status/1242353335220539392

An e-mail asking for companies to give up testing devices was sent...on Sunday.

What the actual f**k has been going on this past 2 months?

Late March ?

[BillyStubbsTears]

Sorry. January. I'll correct the post.