Coronavirus

[horlock07]

Get a clip on one 

What waistband.....

[mexico red]

I reckon the UK will move into a champions league spot above France today

[Batch]

Get a clip on one 

you've failed in love to when you resort to clip on ties*

[Banker]

Again, Trump. Christ, he is actually physically turning into the orange oaf

Uncanny isn't it ? Both are New York-born populists who talk shite, are hair aware, cradle snatched 3rd wife, 24 years junior, filled a pram in their mid-late 50s, distrust and ignore experts, slow to act/react, and Brexiters. Uncanny.

[RobertT]

I see the Adver are getting to the heart of the situation:

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/18416087.shopping-essentials-b-m-bargains-swindon-lockdown/

I think someone can Call It on local newspapers now, DNR.

[4D]

What waistband.....

Get a cummerbund

[pauld]

Months and months now, the govt have been saying they're doing all they can on PPE, while Hancock fiddles the stats by double counting gloves and tweets wanky praise for the Daily Mail, which apparently can get PPE when he can't and they're still not responding to the offers from businesses who want to supply PPE to hospitals and care homes. While nurses, doctors and care home staff continue to die

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-firms-ask-government-do-you-want-our-ppe-or-not-11981025

[REDBUCK]

Instead of writing open letters why dont they just get on and produce and deliver it as long its up to the required standard.

[Flashheart]

Instead of writing open letters why dont they just get on and produce and deliver it as long its up to the required standard.

Yep- it's the supplier's fault.

Those people saying "It's here - come and get it" are at fault. Not the people who's job is to actually go and get the stuff.

[horlock07]

Instead of writing open letters why dont they just get on and produce and deliver it as long its up to the required standard.

So supply it FoC is what you are saying?

[Chunkyhair]

Unbelievable.  It does seem that this Govt is positively trying to shoot itself (with the tragic collateral damage) in the foot.

From the non-participation in the European consortium aimed to ensure supplies of vital equipment, cos they didn't see the email, through the frequently excruciating daily briefings and now to this it has been damning.

[Flashheart]

Can they really be that incompetent?

It would not surprise me if there is a preferred supplier, that is not up to speed, and happens to have an MP (or one of their mates) on board. Profits have to go into the right pockets, after all. I genuinely believe this lot could be that greedy and selfish.

[suttonred]

Unbelievable.  It does seem that this Govt is positively trying to shoot itself (with the tragic collateral damage) in the foot.

From the non-participation in the European consortium aimed to ensure supplies of vital equipment, cos they didn't see the email, through the frequently excruciating daily briefings and now to this it has been damning.

All they'd have to do with the email thing is to look at the logs to take a screenshot and prove it wasn't opened, or didn't get delivered...

[Abrahammer]

Yep- it's the supplier's fault.

Those people saying "It's here - come and get it" are at fault. Not the people who's job is to actually go and get the stuff.

NHS trust procurement managers?

[horlock07]

NHS trust procurement managers?

Queried this with a mate who works quite high up in the NHS (and his missus works in procurement specifically) and he clarified that it was taken in house last year, this explains it better than I could.

https://twitter.com/SimonBurt5/status/1252501930355679232?s=20