Round up

In yesterday's Torygraph, Government sources blamed the lack of testing capacity in the UK down to activities by The Good Law Project using Judicial Review to further a political agenda in blocking policies it, The Good Law Project, did not like.

First of all, JUdicial Review is used on matters of law and legal compliance. The Good Law Project uses this to ensure the Government itself complies with public procurement and common law principles.

If Ministers and Civil Servants shied away from certain contracts it was because they knew the deal were questionable under law.

It is typical of this Government to once again try to blame someone, anyone else for their own policy failings.

Government COVID policy was for mass testing, but without having sufficient resources in place to support this. A basic management failure.

The Sunday Mirror lead with a report that using Government figures, £14.5 billion had been spent by the Goverment on PPE contracts and other COVID related deals that said items were partly or totally useess for the task intended. It would appear little, if any, of this money has been attempted to be recovered, and yet public sector workers have to do with a minimal pay rise and the rest of us have increased taxes and National Insurance payments.

Once again, policy decisions, make the pay so the rich can get away with their crimes, and those who facilitated the crimes in Government, unhappy that their role is being uncovered.

In order to obtain any kind of trade deal with India, it seems that the UK is now willing to relax visa rules for Indian citizens coming to the UK. So it seems EU citizens are bad, but Indians are not, just so the current trade minister can say a deal has been done, even if it undermines the basic aim of Brexit. That immigration from outside the EU27 is unchanged through Brexit show that , once again, this is a policy decision, and one that wll harm UK businesses and its population.

But Brexit.