I am sure most of us will have heard the old proverb “a stitch in time saves nine”, we know it means that it is better to deal with problems immediately, if you wait and deal with them later, things will in all probability get worse and the problems will take longer to deal with.
We are in just this situation as a country now, the way we were slow off the mark in getting control of the lockdown. Now because of press and fiscal pressure the powers that be want to relax the lockdown regulations. Thats fine provided it’s done in the right order and times scale, the devolved administrations all have different preferences and whilst some are cautious the English government want to dive in the deep end and send people back to work from Wednesday 13th May the problem was at first lots of people did not understand Boris Johnsons statement on the prior Sunday evening.
The statement was was short and not particularly clear enough for some people, there was a further attempt to clarify the plan in the house of commons on Monday but it was contradictory in some parts, almost as if it was cobbled together on the back of a fag packet. It was disgusting that the prime-minister could be left to go to the commons so poorly prepared, I am no lover of Keir Starmer but he made some very valid points in his cross-questioning of Boris.
I just do not think the government advisors are dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s, the game plan has not been thought out, for Boris to be asked by different people a number of times in different questioning arenas that if he wants people to start back to work from Wednesday and they have school aged children, what are they supposed to do without child care? He had also just said that the schools will only go back in a phased way around 1st June! He looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights of an on coming bus when it dawned on him that people could not return to work without this child care in place.
I will admit I voted for Boris in the general election, I was full of hope that we had a chance. Granted no one would have forecast this catastrophe that has been thrust upon us but the government has to be more cogent in their approach to getting the country back on it’s feet. It’s my opinion that the Whitehall mandarin’s need to be culled, it’s just too important that we have the best of the best advising the PM, He needs hard concise facts and planing to get this disaster put to bed. This needs to be done immediately, no waiting just get on with it.
Tydraig 