Send in the clowns

Donald Trump once said he could shoot someone in cold blood on 5th Avenue and people would still vote for him. With over 80,000 dead in the US and his supports still seem to support him, even as he does batshit crazy stuff, here in the UK it is little better.

The ONS figures released up to two weeks ago, then extrapolated show that the true fatality rate in the UK is now 59,800 and climbing, especially in the care home system. And yet, yesterday, restrictions on travel were lifted somewhat. With no data available to support that this is actually a wise thing to do.

Johnson will do anything to absolve blame, so when he was asked during PMQs about advice that the Government had given that the virus was unlikely to enter the care home system, Johnson said that had not been the case.

Starmer, having a legal background, had the document in question, and indeed until the 12th March that was the official advice, even if minutes from a SAGE meeting a month before called such a situation "a realistic possibility". 26,000 deaths have occurred in care homes, and the system itself is on the verge of collapse, but even now, the PM refuses to take blame.

Starmer then sent a letter to the PM stating the facts and demanded that the Prime Minister return to the House to correct the record. Instead the PM replied that it was the Opposition's job to support the Government and will not correct the record.

Last night we had a Skype call with our friend, Mary, yesterday. And she is a Boris fan. She is also in the at most group being above 70, and is affronted that her freedom has been curtailed.

But she will not hear anything against Boris. He's done a fine job, under difficult conditions. He doesn't look well. Nothing could have stopped it. I could not let it lie. I had to try to put some facts. Nothing. Because her newspaper supports Johnson and the Government unconditionally, offers little if any criticism, then it must be true.

The question I have is, how many people would have to die for Johnson to have been considered by Conservative voters to had done a bad job?

I think the answer that there is no number they wouldn't accept. Deaths on an industrial scale is apparently acceptable, even when countries of the same size, population densities and so on and on have done a so much better job.

They don't care.

These are also people who wanted Brexit, even as all evidence and reason points the other way. They don't care. They believe themselves to be right, and that is enough.

The Government is pushing hard for the return of sport, presumably hoping that the return of the Prem and FL will distract us all so that we will not see the herses carrying the bodies away. The PL itself is keen, but the players less so, and all this rests of the Government knowing what it is doing with the relaxation of the lockdown, test and trace and developing the software and back up infrastructure needed.

JRM wants the Commons sitting. He is apparently the Leader of the House, and after seeing the PM ripped to pieces twich by the Leader of the Opposition, want his boy backed up by ranks of braying gammons on the Government benches. Johnson looks defeated even before taking the first question, knowing that winging it, like me in my O Level physics exam is doomed, he says one thing, a lie, and then Starmer produces the evidence that proves the lie.

One yesterday was regarding the graph comparing the UK with the rest of the world. Not the time the PM said. But you did it for seven weeks up to yesterday until the point when there was a worse country in Europe than the UK. Starmer then waves the evidence for those in the House and those at home to see.