Good God. Genuinely shocked you think that. They haven't even dropped the VAT on the PPE, but not only that, we are all under the Gov's care, during this extreme time. People are dying for the lack of basic equipment and/or funds to buy them. And all this for the most vulnerable people in society.
Are people now so immune to the level of suffering, poverty and the damage caused by austerity that we think it is just every man / woman for themselves now?
Of course the Gov is to blame for waiting weeks before coming up with some rescue package for social care, it is their fault they are on their knees in the first place.
We're not debating VAT on PPE are we mate? Or do you think, given our system of democracy, that MP's should waste a few readings and 12 odd hours on a bill to drop VAT to £0 instead of doing what they are now - attempting to massively play catch up and get a grip on this?
Fact is, unless I'm wrong and I don't believe I am having listened to people who run care homes and mobile care workers, they are private companies and don't come under NHS procurement, so issues in them finding PPE is down to their management and their networks. Can't fault the Gov for that.
You can argue there should be a greater tie in, but again, do we want MP's wasting days on debate and readings at the moment to make that happen?
Should the Gov be doing more to help open up lines of supply. Yes. But if the Gov prioritised the private sector here over the NHS, what would the reaction be?
This is criticism for the sake of criticism and headlines to do a Daily Mail and get all angry. Every one for themselves? How is rightly pointing out different priorities and programmes evidence of that?
People aren't dying because we don't have the funds for this, whether NHS or private homes, it's supply and distribution dude.
Sorry mate, wrongly few cared about this previously - as you know Claire used to be a mobile herself for the elderly and was paid fuck all. But there's no point in moaning that we don't already have a better system in place and it should've been put in place in February and that blame should instantly go to the Gov regardless - when this wasn't cared about by the vast majority previously who kept voting for austerity.
It is what it is....no need to look for a scapegoat permanently when it's the voting public themselves who are to blame. And whatever the Gov at the moment, the medical & science advice wouldn't have changed. We still wouldn't have had the industry in place for testing and manufacture and we'd still be battling against supply/distribution for PPE.
Raab, Boris, Thatch, Major, Bliar, or Jeremy Clarkson - it's the same questions with no magic answer.
I completely agree, this HAS to lead to a complete re-evalution of the NHS and social care in their country, let alone emergency measures to self produce in time of need, but in the middle of this is not the point to do it.