UK warned virus test shortages harming health system

I hope the Covid emergency reminds political parties and the electorate that when you elect leaders, you are putting them in charge to deal with possible situations requiring leadership, decisiveness and competence. Ruffled up hair and PR stunts isn’t enough.

Johnson has failed the people.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson had pledged

Thank you, no more questions.

Everything Johnson and his puppet-master Dominic Cummings have done is "world-beating" on all fronts. World-beatingly shambolic.

Although it is a total cockup, at least they are doing hundreds of thousands of daily tests compared to our 3000-4000.

The Japanese government knows this and about the situation in other countries and yet it imposes rapid testing as one of the conditions for PRs being able to return to Japan. Either they are stupid, or clever.

Surely there are entrepreneurs owning labs that can fit out labs to test for viruses?

Seems like a cash cow...

According to a director of one of the labs the problems are not with them, they have capacity. The issue is with the number of appointments available and the system for allocating these appointments. The running of the new test and trace service was given to Dido Harding, who has no background in healthcare, is married to a Tory MP and is a close friend of David Cameron. She immediately sub-contracted the service to countless small companies, without putting them out to tender, many of whom have no experience of this sort of thing and are owned by people she knows.

The U.K. government is rotten to the core.

The running of the new test and trace service was given to Dido Harding

That just reminded me of my hard slog through the Aeneid for 'O' level Latin. Child's play, though, compared with trying to fathom the cabal of confidence tricksters, anarchists and vulture capitalists that the good people of Blighty are getting royally Borised by.