Apology ?

[gulliver1]

Boris Johnson refuses to apologise to care workers at PMQs. After Blaming them for high death rates in care homes.

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53324089

[emmie]

where is the link to this, and did he actually say they were to blame. I confess i haven't watched the news recently

[emmie]

thank you Mamy

[ToraToraTora]

link?

[Mamyalynne]

Re

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53315178

[Cloverjo]

Appalling.
I said on another thread here that I know of a care home that was compelled to take in known COVID sufferers with no PPE.

[gulliver1]

Boris Pointing at SKS , after being questioned by him, says ," He keeps saying I blamed the care workers, It is simply not the case says Boris.
This is Boris Lying again.

[ToraToraTora]

I want gulliver's link not an assist. I want to know what to see where he blamed care workers for deaths.

[gulliver1]

Must say though, Boris was doing a very good impression of Churchill at the despatch box today. Think he is better than the A/B version.

[Gromit]

Everyone agrees that the situation in care homes at the start of the pandemic greatly increased the death toll and at best was misguided.
But Johnson was wrong to single them out for being solely to blame. The health professionals who were coming to see people in Homes were untested themselves, and for a long time didn’t have PPE. Once introduced to a Home by visitors, the virus devastated the elderly guests there.
The Care Home owners couldn’t deny doctors and nurses from their Homes, so the criticism by Boris was an act of misdirectIon. The Government were ultimately responsible for providing PPE to NHS workers, but they failed to do so.
Johnson is unlikely to apologise to the Care Home Owners, because the slight was deliberate and not an error.

[gulliver1]

I suppose it is a lot to ask a Conservative Prime Minister to Apologise.
Especially one who always thinks he is right.

[Cloverjo]

What about himself, shaking hands with people in hospital?

[naomi24]

Off with his head!

[youngmafbog]

What a lefty love in.

So privately run businesses are the responsibility of the Government now then. Rolls eyes.

Boris has nothing to apologise for. My daughter works in one, they were caught with their trousers down with no PPE although they should have had it for normal practice.

Still, why let facts get in the way of a Boris bash.

[AuntPollyGrey]

He has nothing to apologise for, its not like they were government owned or managed. These Care homes run a bargain basement service -even the expensive ones. The 'healthcare professionals' often consist of one trained nurse for the whole home plus uneducated and untrained 'carers' who are one stage up from a cleaner. The rich owners are now complaining and blaming the government when they should be taking stock of why they were caught with no procedures in place. They say they had no PPE well hello they should have this in stock at all times. What about patients who have transmittable diseases like Gastro Enteritis or the good old 'Flu'?

[Deskdiary]

“The Government were ultimately responsible for supplying PPE to NHS workers...”

Best sack all of the NHS procurement staff then - they’re clearly redundant if it’s the Government’s job.

[ParsleyDumpling]

I believe a lot of deaths occurred because the NHS knowingly sent residents back to care homes, from hospital in March. Many of these people were not tested, or the care homes were not told of their Covid status. There is an inquiry into this, I think.

[gulliver1]

P/D 18.33 Spot on .What I would like to know is, on who's instuctions were these poor unfortunate people transfered to care homes. Was it Boris perhaps, acting on instructions from Cummings ?.

[ToraToraTora]

at least 9.5 years to go Gully, deep breath!