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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Ryan Bourne: The lifti... · 0 replies · +1 points

No amount of "increasing the capacity" of the NHS will allow it to cope with an epidemic that could put several percent of the population in intensive care simultaneously.

The hospitals are not any better equipped in Vietnam, Taiwan or Australia. The only reason our hospitals were swamped was that the government kept refusing to act until they were. If the NHS had had twice the capacity we would have had twice as many deaths, and just as much lockdown.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The mass testing 'blit... · 3 replies · +1 points

You can always retest people. One retest could cut that to 40 false positives, by your own figures.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Chris Skidmore: Global... · 0 replies · +1 points

We already know our Five Eyes Allies, NATO partners and like-minded democracies want and expect the UK to lead in space.

I should have thought they expect the US to lead in space. Has anyone told you that it is a *much* larger country?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Shifting health policy... · 0 replies · +1 points

I imagine Ursula von der Leyen would agree that her life would have been a lot easier if she could have delegated vaccine procurement to an EU body that routinely handled such things. Sadly, the EU does not have such a body, so the Commission itself had to make the decisions and get the blame.

Much better to recruit people who know what they are doing to do the job - especially if you can blame them if it goes wrong. It was government ministers that decided AGAINST locking down before Christmas and let tens of thousands of people die a few weeks before they would have been vaccinated. That's not going to look good in the TV dramas.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Shifting health policy... · 1 reply · +1 points

How much money to spend may be a political decision, but no one can decide to spend everything that medicine will allow. You can always spend more money on anything.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Shifting health policy... · 2 replies · +1 points

Not to be cynical, but the decisions taken by career politicians in this epidemic have not often been good. And why would they be, when they were taken by people with relatively little knowledge of the matter they were deciding on? The one thing that has gone right is the vaccine rollout - which is a version of the flu vaccination campaign we have every year, and which can therefore be handled by the usual people.

Turning every decision into a political decision by the minister is a way to guarantee bad decisions made made by someone who knows little about the matter he is deciding, has no time to decide them, and whose failures must be blamed on the government.

Think how much easier life goes if you can say that a decision was made by or on the advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, or the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Not only can the decision be shuffled off onto people who hopefully know what they are doing, but there is at least some hope of blaming someone else if it all goes wrong.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Daniel Hannan: Ignore ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I see the man who told us COVID was nothing to worry about is now telling us we can move the country to the Pacific.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Andrew Gimson's PMQs s... · 0 replies · +1 points

It's a bit late to call for open borders after signing an agreement that closed them.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Liam Fox: Are we reall... · 0 replies · +1 points

"Next time, lets do nothing and let half a million people die. "

Bound to be a vote-winner.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Why did the BBC broadc... · 0 replies · +1 points

When Boris Johnson was sued for lying, ConservativeHome was full of people outraged that he could get into to trouble merely for lying.

If other people are lying about ConservativeHome, it seems only fair.

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