As Cummings dishes the dirt, please remember that some of us knew over a year ago. Many called this a conspiracy theory but now we know.
Tag: Dominic Cummings
Covid: The story so far
When Covid19 first made it into the news I was as concerned as most people but not dismayed. I had faith in the government to do what’s right and in fact, didn’t criticise the shower of shit we have in Downing Street until April. I saw my role as a good citizen to get behind the government, propagate positive messages abut hand-washing, social distancing and generally support the national effort to keep people alive and not too worried.
I did criticize a bit but that was reserved not for Boris and his cabal of criminals but for hoarders and spivs. Not until April did I start openly criticizing the way the government was handling the pandemic, putting British lives at unnecessary risk by ignoring the advice from the rest of the world.
Even then though, my regular blog posts and videos were aimed more at ludicrous conspiracy theories about mobile ‘phone signals and unsubstantiated claims about Boris not really being unwell, after all. I’m still uncertain about that last one, mind. Then the Health Minister, Matt Hancock delivered a message that I’m afraid really did get up my nose. He claimed that the reason we hadn’t enough PPE to keep ourselves and our patients safe at work was because we were over-using it. The chance would have been a fine thing.
The reality was (and is) that 10 years of Conservative government failures to prepare for the inevitable contagion, a contagion that the government’s own exercise highlighted was not sufficiently prepared for, has left us woefully under-resourced to meet the challenge. My own MP, Mark Jenkinson (more about his spurious attempts to discredit nurses later) insisted there was no problem. As his more senior colleague (everyone’s more senior than Jenky), Matt Hancock had claimed it’s our fault, we nurses for actually using the stuff we’re given. Of course we’ll run out if we use it… and only once too! That’s what ‘disposable’ means, Matt. It’s to do with infection control, a rather important aspect of dealing with a pandemic like Covid19, as it happens.
A large part of the reason why we went into this crisis so unprepared is because of 10 years of conservative cuts on the health service.
A large part of the reason why we went into this crisis so understaffed is because the tories have spent the last 10 years abusing the workforce. A workforce that now, after risking their lives to care for the sick and the dying are expected to pay for the shortcomings of this despicable bunch of bastards. As if we haven’t given enough already.
A large part of the reason that we went into this crisis so under-resourced was because when everyone else was buying up PPE, ventilators and other equipment we were still being told to sing happy birthday by our Prime Minister who made a song and dance about shaking hands with hospitalised Covid-19 patients. What an example to set!
And now – Now – they tell us that we’ve plenty of ICU beds. If so, why is the government developing protocols that deny ICU care to older people?
Then, to add insult to injury, Jenky hired people to travel 35 miles during lockdown to go door to door posting his pointless propaganda like so many typhoid Maries merrily spreading the virus as they went. It seems that nothing can get in the way of a tory MP’s self-agrandisement – not even the risk of killing his own constituents!
Before we leave the actions of this rather obscure and ineffectual back-bencher it’s worth mentioning his vicious, victim-blaming attack on the Royal College of Nursing, my union, as it happens for daring to question Government rhetoric and, like Oliver Twist in the workhouse dare to ask for more PPE. It didn’t take too long to destroy his extremely superficial argument. It’s really easy to take down a man with the intellectual capacity of a warthog who’s spent the afternoon drinking ketamine and barbiturate cocktails. Perhaps that’s why he prefers to keep politics out of the public domain – unless he thinks he can spout his nonsense unopposed.
It’s very clear that from the outset that the whole government, not just Jenky, ignored scientific advice in favour of the eugenicist doctrines of Dominic Cummings.
And it was Dominic Cummings who stole the headlines in early June with his now infamous ‘Durham Dash’. Conservative MPs across the land frantically toed the party line, desperate to placate constituents with thinly disguised platitudes and non-sequeters, posted en masse without the slightest thought or apparent concern for the impact such patronising authoritarianism might have on their recipients.
Needing a distraction and still ignoring scientific advice the government began a new offensive. This time they were attacking the teachers, hoping to make them the next scapegoat because of their reluctance to return to over-crowded classrooms full of covid19. Unfortunately for them, the nation had already seen through the same tactic when Hancock tried to blame health care professionals and were having none of it. The clear message was that the government didn’t care a jot about children, despite their protestations. A decade of abandonment, not to mention their recent decision to cut off lone child refugees in Calais showed just how little concern they have for anyone’s children but their own (well, except boris who doesn’t even know how many kids he’s got). No, this was all about the money – about freeing up parents to get back to work and die of Covid just so long as they can keep their betters in profit.
And then the pubs opened! Oh dear! A group of scientifically illiterate arse-holes got gobby about refusing to wear facemasks – clearly the Darwin award judges will be selecting from a very strong field of candidates this year.
Links in chronological order
https://lefteyeview.com/2019/12/22/christmas-monsters/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/03/24/coronavirus-what-to-do-with-all-that-hand-sanitiser/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/04/03/nurses-arent-heroes/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/04/05/covid-19-and-the-eternal-now/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/04/05/whos-afraid-of-corona-virus/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/04/05/a-little-graph/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/04/06/covid-19-and-the-spivs/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/04/06/5g-stop-being-so-bloody-stupid/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/04/10/boris-and-the-nhs/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/04/11/how-dare-you-matt-hancock/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/04/12/the-great-ppe-swindle/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/04/14/was-boris-really-in-icu/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/04/15/questions-for-my-mp/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/04/19/one-rule-for-one/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/04/21/tory-mp-attacks-the-royal-college-of-nursing/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/04/27/email-to-my-mp-about-sages-scientific-integrity/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/05/04/sage-ignoring-the-science/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/05/13/let-me-rephrase-that/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/05/23/social-media-politics/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/06/02/get-back-to-school-plebs/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/06/02/dear-constituents/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/06/13/stus-news-roundup-june-13th-2020/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/07/06/stus-news-best-of-british-edition/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/07/19/whos-to-blame/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/07/25/nomaskselfie-is-trending/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/08/23/my-mp-doesnt-care-for-democracy/
https://lefteyeview.com/2020/08/26/stus-news-august-26th-2020/
Dear constituents
Two friends of mine received the exact same letter defending Dominic Cummings little lockdown jaunt from our Tory MP, Mark Jenkinson. That’s no big deal. The amount of complaints probably meant a job lot from the printer made sense.
What’s concerning, contemptuous, even is the way that the letter appears to have been written by two different people. It’s almost as though it was forwarded to constituency MPs from Tory HQ with the instruction to add a little personal information to make it look good.
Here we unpick that letter line by line. It’s not pretty, I’m afraid.
Further fun from the Downing St Fash!
I wonder what the Freedom of speech supporters who’ve stood on public platforms for years shouting divisive diatribes and railed against the law curtailing their right to shout divisive diatribes from public platforms will make of this. Those of us who really do support Freedom of speech (in UK Freedom of expression) genuinely are appalled.
Yesterday we saw how American alt-right offshoot ‘Turning Point UK’ was attempting to influence British education by encouraging intimidation of teachers. Today we learn that our government is doing the same. That’s hardly surprising given the links our government has with alt-right gurus such as Steve Bannon, arguably the real power behind Cummings’s Prime Ministerial throne. Let’s face it – it’s not Boris in charge, is it?
In 1933 the German Nazi party began a campaign of removing all academics and staff from schools, universities and cultural, historical institutions who weren’t ‘on message’.
Do you see the similarly yet?
Loud and clear
Yesterday the news broke that Andrew Sabisky, Eugenicist, racist and all round dismisser of other peoples’ worth had been employed as advisor to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson (who definitely is not racist). Today we hear that Mr. Sabisky has resigned as advisor to the (definitely not racist) Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.
Several of my lefty colleagues are proclaiming a victory this morning over the Johnson regime (that still really definitely isn’t racist) because public outrage has forced the nasty little eugenicist to go. But they’ve missed the point. Sabisky has already served his purpose and the message from this (absolutely not racist) government will have been received loud and clear.
Sabisky’s appointment is just the latest in a long line of reassurances from Prime Minister Johnson (who really doesn’t have a racist bone in his body) to the UK’s racist population that Number 10 is on their side. From comments about Picaninnies, Watermelon smiles and letter boxes to the appointment of shady figures like Dominic Cummings (or did Cummings appoint Johnson?) and shady links to alt right figureheads like Steve Bannon the (undeniably NOT racist) Mr. Johnson has being spreading out the red carpet for British race hate groups for years.
So the very fact that Mr. Sabisky was employed at all by (the completely, absolutely and totally not racist) Mr. Johnson far outweighs the fact that he has been forced to resign by “lefty, pinko snowflakes that hate freedom speek and can’t see the true that British peeple is best and always is white – not like them forriners”.
This isn’t any sort of victory for the left – this is evidence that we’ve been played – yet again. Not only has the PM doubled-down on his friendship with racists (who aren’t at all like Boris himself) by appointing Sabisky in the first place but he’s also managed to divide the country even further as part of his (not at all obvious or racist) ‘divide and rule’ strategy.
But in the interests of balance, just in case you think I’m being too hard on the (not racist) Prime minister, here’s a short Youtube clip of Boris being not racist…
Left eye view 