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More fucking meh from our inglorious bastard. He did manage to of course spew forth lots of vague waffle with little actual detail, but as usual there were many more negatives than positives.
Only good bit of today’s Bojo performance was that he seemed to indicate that if you cannot get childcare then you cannot be expected to return to work.
He also seemingly told the air industry to fuck off with requests for money at this stage as the priority is dealing with the virus. But did not address why the quarantine requirement for new arrivals comes so late (100,000 arrived by plane alone since lock down), but did not give any clarification as to if this 14 day quarantine requirement also applies to all UK ports, or how many people have arrived via those since lock down.
He totally avoided Daisy Cooper’s excellent question asking for govt to not just throw around numbers of what PPE is being provided, but to also supply regular updates as to the current demand for PPE. The first number is meaningless unless we know how that relates to the demand.
Despite claiming to have consulted extensively with first ministers in Wales, Scotland and NI he did not give any explanation about how none of them we told about new plans including ‘stay alert’ and instead had to find out from the morning papers.
Cloth mouth coverings for tube and enclosed environments like small shops advisory only, and nothing yet seemingly mandated or agreed on construction and other industries to ensure safety at work.
Claimed 200,000 tests a day by end of month, still woefully inadequate to identify actual level of local and national infection. 5 day turnaround of tests also clearly not good enough. Still nothing on testing availability for the general public yet.
For small and medium business no commitment for support other than loans.
Did not give any assurances that councils would get back the Covid expenditure they made as promised initially, some only got half of what they have spent.
Err what was the bit about Covid getting into the water supply in certain regions?
Also expect the Chancellor to shit on the low paid and vulnerable tomorrow with a reduction in the furlough amount, rumours its going from 80% to 60%.