Five Weeks Of Lies

[teacake44]

For five weeks now Matt Hancock has insisted that there wasn't a shortage of PPE, nearly every hospital and care home in the country was saying there was, he also insisted that it was a logistical problem only, and that was with 20 thousand army personal drivers ready to deliver. When the army joined us, we were told, this is what the army are brilliant at ( logistics ) ?

Today he says he wished he had a magic wand to produce PPE. When will Mr Hancock face up to the fact that the UK was oh so slow off the starting block, and the cost of that, was peoples lives, especially NHS lives. When will he start telling the truth, ( never).

They've also been telling us that we don't need to wear a face mask,(now their thinking about it), but waiting for the science to tell them. Common sense tells me that face masks can help stop the spread of the virus, if they didn't, then the rest of the world wouldn't be wearing them, or nurses wearing them in hospital or care homes, ( when they can get them) We all know about the top of the range mask that they need to wear in ITC, but the rest of the nurses are wearing bog standard face masks.

There are now UK manufactures pulling out all the stops to produce PPE, they say they have be ignored by Matt Hancock for weeks now, even after making it known to him that they could make what was required. How many more lives need to be lost before they supply the nation with face masks like every other country is doing.

I've changed my mind about Mr Hancock,( give someone a chance to get sorted,) he's had five weeks, and all we've had is five weeks of lies. Whatever advice he or the government give out, I for one will take with a pinch of salt, and do my own thing.

[Zacs-Master]

Don’t hold your breath, ff. Teacake works in soundbites driven by the likes of Piers Morgan.

[ToraToraTora]

FF: "Hopefully Teacake can clarify what the lies have been" - she never has yet!

[theshedman]

sevenOP, who has passed the buck. I just agree it was the job of others to buy the PPE stuff in, not Hancocks.

[fiction-factory]

^ although I can see the buck stops ultimately with the Health Secretary (and beyond that the PM and beyond that the electorate?), so if he felt the procurement people had failed to maintain sufficient stocks of PPE from their huge budgets and were not up to the job of buying it now with unlimited funds, he should find people or organisations who were able to deliver

[naomi24]

Blimey! I've been promoted! That is me you're referring to isn't it teacake? Go on, tell me it is. I'll be everso disappointed if it's not. :o)

[Zacs-Master]

Awww, don’t tease, N. The description fits you like a glove.

Some positives of CVm
Less pollution
A chance to reevaluate life
A chance to reevaluate relationships
A chance to stop and look around
A chance to pick up old hobbies
A chance to appreciate our health service more

And much more time to root-out the glass half empty people.

[naomi24]

:o)

[Bobbisox1]

Reading all the answers here, the man is doing his best under tremendous pressure with something that has never happened before , I don’t think he’s ‘lying’ , things are changing daily , I do not envy this mans task at all

[bednobs]

"Maybe Hancock has tried to convey an optimistic tone and not been open enough about the challenges"
I think it was a mistake for him to say that people in the NHS were using PPE wrong, and not treating it like the precious commodity it is (even though from what i can see they are). He's perfectly allowed to think it, but to put the fault publicly onto NHS staff who are saints and angels in most people's eyes for (for the time being) was imo not savvy. I think MH comes across well especially in the committee meetings. However If dominic Raab mentions again that he govt are "straining every sinew" im going to go right off him

[teacake44]

12.44 Yep, they may as well do away with the daily briefings, has its just a repeat of the previous day, apart from the numbers of deaths, and they are most of the time doctored. Has for questions from the media at the end, pointless has they continue to dance around direct questions. May be they just play a CD every day.

[bednobs]

i actually quite like the briefings (especially when it's the "dream team" less so when it's alok sharma et al) because you very rarely get 'access' to the govt in this way. The journalists pee me off though with their utterly inane questions

[teacake44]

Must agree about the questions, such has, when will the lockdown end? but sometimes there is a good question. One question that was asked by a member of the public this morning on TV, to an economy expert was. ( I have an holiday booked for the summer in Spain, will I be able to go) OMG are they real?

[Deskdiary]

Jesus Christ, the constant negativity and the constant whining of a number of people is getting bloody tedious.

[teacake44]

13.33 why you here then.

[jim360]

Exactly, DD. What is there to possibly be negative and downbeat about at the moment...

[teacake44]

The positives keep harping on about the negatives, but the so called positives are not displaying any positives, or I haven't seen any yet, please tell us what they are.

[ToraToraTora]

still waiting for an example of "lies".

[Zacs-Master]

Teacake. My post 12:12. You really should pay more attention to comments on your own threads. However misplaced that thread may be.

[iluvmargie]

Lol, thanks for BA teacake.