Saturday news

This week, a govt minister promoted far right lies & went unpunished. The Prime Minister & the Health Secretary lied about care homes. Johnson was shown to have lied about customs checks in Northern Ireland. Teachers were maligned, lockdown chaos escalated & the R number went up.

Also the BMA published a letter supporting Teacher's unions in wanting for facts and data before agreeing to go back to work.

But the Hate Mail railed against teachers and teacher's unions in particular.

You too can be heroes.

Heroes are usually killed by machine gun fire as the troops went "over the top" and lie in neat rows beside other heroes. Teachers did not teach to be heroes, other than to inspire generations of children. They did not sign up to risk their lives to go into to work to prop up a Government lead by a feckless slacker.

But, be heroes the fearless typewriter army of the Daily Mail implores, writing from the safety of their spare bedroom or home office.

The Chief Medical Officer noted that the R number is nudging up towards 1, but not to worry, Germany saw the same thing. Obviously not on the circulation list of the memo to stop international comparisons. Unless you need to cover up or explain Government policy that goes against "Great British common sense".

There is no common sense in Government policy, where you can view a house for sale with an estate agent meeting the current owner, but you can't go and visit your parents house. Just one of them. Economic good outweighing the public health.

So much for being in it together and being lead by the science, showing the lie for what it was.

Hurrah for the economy until Brexit trashes it totally in January.

Hurrah, hurrah for Boris, and let's boo the shirkers instead of clapping for the heroes.

Yes, let's.

The Health Secretary announced that the Government had ringfenced care homes to protect them. This was a lie, nothing was done to protect care homes and their patients, in fact infected patients were dicharged from hospital to such homes, many times without notes so it was unknown the patient was infected. Staff had little or no PPE. Care home patients and staff were sacrificed to make it appear the NHS wasn't swamped.

"Right from the start we've tried to throw a protective ring around our care homes. We set out our first advice in February... we've made sure care homes have the resources they need" Matt Hancock said. All lies.

And as @peston said: "I am pretty sure @MattHancock said 36% of care homes have been infected with #Covid19. Or rather he suggested that 64% of care homes being free of the virus was a good outcome. Surely he cannot think that. Imagine what would have happened if 34% of all homes had been infected.

Meanwhile the PM said to the 1922 Committee of backbenchers that Public Health England "poor performance" and a rapid reform was to take place.

Everyone's fault except the man at the top.

Of course.