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Quite so Bob!
I agree about Bevin and as you rightly highlight the opposition and the trade unions have fallen into the trap of infighting over internal party trivia when they should have been uniting and challenging the government on it's flawed policies its continued failings to deliver fit for purpose public services!
As you also elude to there are no political leaders with the required charisma, passion, belief or even the fire in their belly to inspire, invigorate and unite their parties and the people in order to deal decisively and effectively with this present crisis!
In short if today's politicians were a meal then they would be described as bland!
A politician from the past who despite having personal faults, never the less also had charisma and the passion to unite and inspire and deserves to be remembered for delivering some great improvements to the lives of the ordinary people.
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Lloyd-George/
Good to hear your thoughts on this Mr Bond, it's a great thing that this forum can continue to offer such support to its members during such a difficult period.
The game show host in number 10 and his bunch of clowns are only interested in covering their own and their parties incompetence aided by the unfit for post bureaucrats who issue the empty statements defending this ongoing catalogue of governmental and departmental failures to deliver a comprehensive and cohesive 21st century health service that is fit for purpose at all times!
Sorry totally off subject for this site,some will find it annoying.
Apologies.
After this is over.
Those who told lies
Should be held to account.
IE. Only 15 % of health care workers tested
According to government ,shortage of test devices.
That is not true.
Government sought to save money. So did not order more.
That is not short of criminal negligence.
Heads should roll.
As always the bureaucratic polit buros have a jobsworthy position to defend. We need an Ernest Bevin to be appointed to cut the c===p but unfortunately the Labour opposition have nobody up to this task and present Union leaders (as Bevin was)cannot turn off the ideologue when they should have the clout to cut through the red tape . Churchill admired Bevin and appointed him in the coalition Government as Minister of supply. In my book a hero as he took no prisoners and ruthlessly raised supply and production to a level needed to resist the Nazi threat. I am sick and tired of media fashion political celebs stating the problem re testing and Labour playing politics with the situation without offering solutions or leadership. Woe is me and its all the Governments fault. Disgusted.
Isolated Bob
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-testing-offers-064531366.html
Medical officials have ignored offers of help from some of the UK's leading scientific institutions to boost Britain's rate of coronavirus testing, it has been claimed.
Officials have repeatedly ignored offers from the likes of Oxford University and the renowned Francis Crick Institute involving hundreds of testing machines and trained personnel, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Nations including Germany, South Korea and Australia have already tested hundreds of thousands of their citizens – leaving Britain lagging behind
Government figures show that fewer than 10,000 tests per day are currently being carried out, compared with 70,000 per day in Germany.
The number of daily tests fell on Tuesday to 8,240, for a total of 143,186 tests since the end of February, the government said.
The Telegraph said senior health sources warned that the window for the UK to launch a successful mass community testing programme may already have been lost.
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Professor Matthew Freeman, head of Oxford's Dunn School of Pathology, one of Britain's leading disease research centres, told the paper his repeated offers to provide dozens of specialised machines and expert staff had been largely ignored by Public Health England (PHE).
He said his department had 119 of the crucial PCR machines, or thermal cyclers, used to identify tell-tale genetic signs of coronavirus, but that health officials had accepted only one.
Prof Freeman said some two weeks ago PHE had issued a request for "a very specific model" of PCR machine. His department had one, which was duly collected, but he added: "We have another 118 that can broadly do the same job, but they don't appear to be part of PHE's plans.”
Hundreds of specialist workers and trained graduate students were poised to help increase testing, he said, but despite initial signs of enthusiasm he had heard nothing more from PHE.
"We're clearly not doing as well as we could be doing as a nation when it comes to testing, and therefore people like us feel a bit frustrated," he told the paper.
The Francis Crick Institute, a world-leading biomedical research centre based in London, has given five PCR machines to PHE so far, but is understood to have dozens more.
A spokesman told the paper no firm word had come from PHE as to whether any further machines or expertise would be required.
"We have hundreds of scientists with different areas of expertise ready and willing to step in," the spokesman was quoted as saying.
The Telegraph said other institutions across Britain were understood to have had similar offers of help rejected by PHE.
PHE offered a defence of its response to the outbreak to the paper