Where to start?

Well, yesterday saw the Gvernment walk out of talks with the mayors of Greater Manchester and Lancashire and impose a tier 3 lockdown on the city and region.

Talks had been ongoing for ten days over the level of support: Mayors wanted £65 million, the Government were only willing to supply £60. So, five million. To me and you a huge sum, but in terms of the UK economy, less than pocket change.

The Government would only supply £22 million of funding, and the pM was asked over and over again if the original sixty was being supplied, and he did not answer.

This morning, under forensic questioning from Starmer the original £60 million was being supplied after all. Debate if this was a u turn or not rages on, but the Government is only too happy to blame the mayors for the situation when all they wanted was enough support for businesses and people facing ruin by all bars and pubs and restaurants closing.

At the same time, the Government is also trying to blame the London Mayor for financial difficulties with TFL who runs transport on the capital. Johnson and Jennick have claimed that Javid has bankrupted TFL, but atual facts show that Javid has reduced the deficit from £1.5 billion to £200 million in his time in office, since inheriting the deficit from, checks notes, Alexander Boris de Piffel Johnson. Don't let facts get in the war of smearing a political opponent.

Meanwhile, at PMQs, Starmer asked Johnson how any region or city, like Manchester, could exit level 3 restrictions. And Johnson did not know, had no plan. The point here being that most of the areas and cities now under level 3 had been at some kind of restrictions for up to several months beforehand, and these restrictions had not worked and infection rates climbed, and as that both his chief medical advisors have said this week that lockdowns will only have a minimal impact, what elese is the plan? There isn't one.

The UK Government hasn't only upset the North, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, London, the EU, America, Japan, it has now upset Jersey, and the other Channel Islands, as a piece of UK legislation has incorrectly included Jersey's territorial waters in its Permissive Extent Clause legislation.

This is sloppy lawmaking by people who don't like to make laws, they like to issue decrees, that cannot be unchallenged.

This is a Government of former journalists that like to campaign. Campaign for this, against that, but no actual plan for getting or acheiving anything. And would rather blame someone else for their own organisational failings.

In their world, blame is nationalised, credit is provatised. In the same way that debt is nationalised and profit is privatised, benefitting the few, not the many.

In the same way, businesses will be helped, but not workers.

And hungry schoolchildren will not get free meals in the half term and Christmas holiday because there is no money, but there is cash to pay consultants £7,000 day to work on the failed track and trace, to give their friends and backers contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds to supply useless PPE.