Out of control

Last week, the Prime Minister, Alexander Boris de Piffel Johnson, announced spending £100 billion pounds on a scheme called Operation Moonshot.

Yesterday, in a Select Committee he couldn't recall making the promise. I do, I wrote baout how the sum was twice the defence budget.

But that is where we are, where facts from last week can be denied.

Meanwhile the UK's testing program and the track and trace are on the point of collapse. Things are so bad that tests are to be rationed, this as the expected second wave is building.

A perfect storm of incompetence.

On Wednesday there were 4,000 new cases of COVID, and on the "Peston" TV show, the Health Secretary announced a whole range of new lockdowns for the NE of England. 3 hours before the new restrictions were to be enforced, there had been no SI or legal guidance published.

As usual.

The Government outsourced the testing of the public to SERCO, but they have sub-contracted that to about 29 other companies, and yet Ministers talk of the NHS testing and track and trace system, when it has nothing to do with the NHIS. Blame has to be nationalised, contracts are to be privatised.

As usual.

Remember, the Speaker has warned Hancock not to do this, we shall see what happens, if anything.

9,300,000 tonight has some restrictions on their liberty and freedoms. No actual laws have been passed, just SIs signed off by Ministers. A second national lockdown seems inevitable.

And yet the plan to allow fans to attend sporting events has been brought forward, with Norwich one of nine Football League games allowed to have 1/30th of the usual attendance, as a trial.

It doesn't seem the right time to be doing this.

Dido Harding stated in another Commons committee that no one could have forseen the upsurge in demand the country has seen in recent weeks. Clearly she did not get the memo from the WHI in January about testing, testing, testing. A reminder she is now in charge of whatever replaces PHE.

So with the second wave now building, there aren't enough testing, no working track and trace, schools are up and working, universities will reopen at the end of the month.

Meanwhile, JRM says that people should stop carping about how bad things are and celebrate what the Conservative Government has acheived.

I have no words.