Alexandole Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

[Mon Autre]

Thought he held his own today but one error was he stated 200,000 tests a day and missed the word capacity that all other ministers have been careful to add.

The error is to not have an effective testing structure in the first place. Hammering the word "capacity" in there to move the goalposts and try and pretend 200k "capacity" amounts to 200k completed and informative test results is a failure in itself. If the main complaint is that he's not doing a great job at masking his failings rather than the failings themselves then we really are setting the bar low.

 

[jay_mcfc]

Really?

Blackford asks why don't the govt pay healthcare workers the living wage and he answered with the largest investment in NHS history.....its an answer to a totally different question, something which he did time and time again.

He's spent 4 days working ferociously on what Keir will ask him and how he can counter. Let's give him a bit of respite with the other questions for now.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Really?

Blackford asks why don't the govt pay healthcare workers the living wage and he answered with the largest investment in NHS history.....its an answer to a totally different question, something which he did time and time again.

i had to shoot after the starmer exchange, up to then Boris did alright

 

[Vic]

Apparently (appallingly) he thinks foreign NHS staff paying for NHS treatment is just part of the need to fund the NHS. Aren't we getting the bus money for that?

 

[The perfect fumble]

Fairs fair for me, Starmer battered Boris last couple of weeks but Boris today answered fairly and countered well to his points after a bumbly start

You're right, at the end of a bout, collapsing bloody and bruised in to the arms of your trainer, is preferable to lying KO'd in the ring.

 

[ganganvince]

The error is to not have an effective testing structure in the first place. Hammering the word "capacity" in there to move the goalposts and try and pretend 200k "capacity" amounts to 200k completed and informative test results is a failure in itself. If the main complaint is that he's not doing a great job at masking his failings rather than the failings themselves then we really are setting the bar low.

Precisely why the word needs to be there people can't be forced to take a test all government can do is provide the capability

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

I didn't think it was quite the same skewering as last week - no doubt the fact checkers will be working overtime on his answers - but indeed he's now on Parliamentary record with promises on numbers, including 200,000 tests a day by 1st June, and 24,000 tracers in place now - are they?

Please tell me (unless Im missing something ) how have they recruited 24,000 people when

1) We've been in lockdown - no travelling for interviews and social distancing.

2) They've not placed any advertisements in the paper or TV / Radio

3) these tracers will need to be in touch with minors / vulnerable and elderly people they will need to be DBS checked so has it been done and whose paid for that ?


Or is he telling lies again.

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

Precisely why the word needs to be there people can't be forced to take a test all government can do is provide the capability

As Ive said many times before ... my closest test centre is a 3 hour round trip. The closest test centre to Leicester is Thetford in Suffolk

 

[Saddleworth2]

Please tell me (unless Im missing something ) how have they recruited 24,000 people when

1) We've been in lockdown - no travelling for interviews and social distancing.

2) They've not placed any advertisements in the paper or TV / Radio

3) these tracers will need to be in touch with minors / vulnerable and elderly people they will need to be DBS checked so has it been done and whose paid for that ?


Or is he telling lies again.

I understand that the core of tracers will come from local district environmental health (or so I read). I wouldn’t have thought there were anything like that number in the U.K. No worries though, he says it will be all in place by 1/6.

 

[ganganvince]

As Ive said many times before ... my closest test centre is a 3 hour round trip. The closest test centre to Leicester is Thetford in Suffolk

Have you checked recently? there are mobiles now I went online sat morning booked a test for the same day 1 mile away and got the result back the next day maybe I was lucky but keep checking for the mobiles. Is that not closer?
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