Mark Hughes<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@MartMichaelis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MartMichaelis</span></a></span> That easily passes the threshold of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a> being overwhelmed. </p><p>Shocking, but not surprising from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MattHancock</span></a>, that a Healthy Secretary would try to deny that, or worse, but recognise it himself. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid</span></a></p>
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happyborg<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UKLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKLabour</span></a> are reviving discredited, reckless Tory plans to centralise and privatise the most precious resource we have: highly sensitive personal <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a> health records for the entire UK population from birth to death.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WesStreeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WesStreeting</span></a>, like <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MattHancock</span></a> before him wants to gather all our data into a massive central database, an irresistible honeypot for hackers, corporations and politicians.</p><p>Streeting shows he's unfit to be in the room by using the lie that 'anonymisation' protects any of this.</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>One of the key things to emerge from the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/CovidInquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CovidInquiry</span></a> this week has been the problem of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattHancock</span></a>. </p><p>In a parallel to Cassandra, his reputation for exaggeration & publicity seeking, led his (as it turned out, accurate) concerns about <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Covid</span></a> in January 2020 to be dismissed as yet more exaggeration & hysteria by <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BorisJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BorisJohnson</span></a>'s staff....</p><p>On one level this is a strange defence of Hancock, while right he had a rubbish reputation, but sounds like a plausible account of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Tory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tory</span></a> office <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>politics</span></a>!</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.wales/@epistatacadam" class="u-url mention">@<span>epistatacadam</span></a></span> </p><p>Very well put... and I completely agree about the reversal of flow in the realm of political blame.... the genius to our political elite is blame avoidance, or failing that the sacrificial lamb (yellow <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattHancock</span></a>)</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Another week at the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/CovidInquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CovidInquiry</span></a> & <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattHancock</span></a>'s role as useful idiot has been confirmed with 'witnesses' lining up to say he was an idiot, not be trusted & generally incompetent. </p><p>So his utility is now coming into focus as the lightning rod (sacrificial lamb?) for <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tories</span></a>... as more & more is laid at his door, the rest of the shambles will try to hide in the shadow that casts.</p><p>But lets be clear: there is blame enough to go around & be shared.</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>One thing that is become crystal clear from the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/CovidInquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CovidInquiry</span></a> is that <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattHancock</span></a> has few if any friends in Govt... they're all going to be taking turns to throw him under the bus, in a desperate attempt to throw off attention to their own actions.... but don't worry chaps, there's blame enough to go around you all!</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Political cynicism:</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BorisJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BorisJohnson</span></a> key <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattHancock</span></a> in post s that when the inevitable public inquiry took place he could be 'sacrificed'. </p><p>So a political strategy to cover Johnson's arse involved keeping someone in a senior post who all seemed to agree was incompetent... and by extension costing lives during the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pandemic</span></a>. </p><p>These people beggar belief; its all a big game to Johnson & his chums, where the consequences always happen elsewhere;</p><p>I feel sick to my stomach!<br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/02/matt-hancock-covid-enquiry" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/politics/2023/</span><span class="invisible">nov/02/matt-hancock-covid-enquiry</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Ha ha ha...</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattHancock</span></a> complained to IPSO (the Press watchdog) that a Daily Mirror was inaccurate when it referred to him as a 'failed health secretary & cheating husband who broke the lockdown rules he wrote'... after careful consideration IPSO has concluded that this (and some other similar articles Hancock complained about) did not breach the editors code of practice, as they were not inaccurate!</p><p>Oh dear, Mr Hancock...</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>No-one should be surprised by <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattHancock</span></a>'s assertion at the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/CoronavirusInquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CoronavirusInquiry</span></a> that <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pandemic</span></a> 'preparation' in the UK was really focussed on damage management....</p><p>For all the positive things one can still say about the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NHS</span></a>, the shortcomings in its lack of focus on preventative <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>medicine</span></a> predates the reign of the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Tory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tory</span></a> wreckers.</p><p>We are a county that always focuses on problem solving not problem avoidance. We see it in health, in our response to the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> or to <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>discrimination</span></a>!</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>How to make money in <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Tory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tory</span></a> town:</p><p>1. donate £230k directly & further £160 via your firm to the party;</p><p>2. Lobby Minister (<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattHancock</span></a>) by WhatsAp & Email;</p><p>3. Minister adds your firm to VIP lane & you're awarded contract for lab equipment & PCR testing;</p><p>4. Unfortunately for unstated reasons the contract is cancelled;</p><p>5. leading to £38.6m settlement for breaking contract.</p><p>Who is this genius? </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@goodlawproject" class="u-url mention">@<span>goodlawproject</span></a></span> identified Mustafa Mohammed & his firm Ecolog as the lucky winners from this dance!</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>So, in the last election there were only 6 cases of electoral <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fraud</span></a> (<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattHancock</span></a> has reluctantly admitted). This from a <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>voting</span></a> population of over 45M</p><p>You'll be aware of the number of cases of fraud by <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Tory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tory</span></a> MPs (from a population of 355) exceeds this in nominal terms & is vastly larger in proportional terms.</p><p>So, let be clear, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/voterID" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>voterID</span></a> is about voter suppression not fraud.</p><p>If the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tories</span></a> were interested in <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>democratic</span></a> fraud they'd put their own house in order.</p><p>h/t Roland Hoskins/Bird site</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Over this weekend I saw a couple of friends (separately) who are <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/teachers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>teachers</span></a>, and both are unsurprised by the contempt shown for the profession in the leaked <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattHancock</span></a> WhatsAp messages, but equally were pretty grim that their suspicions about ministers' views had been vindicated...</p><p>Both suggested a lack of teachers (more leaving the profession than joining) was directly related to this contempt from this <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Tory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tory</span></a> govt.</p><p>As I've said before, wrecking the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>education</span></a> system is storing up trouble!</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>are we about to see 'eatoutgate' as <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattHancock</span></a>'s WhatsAp messages reveal the Treasury looked to be covering up the impact of the Eat Out to Help Out scheme on local <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>covid</span></a> infections?</p><p>its an open secret the scheme was <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/infection" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>infection</span></a>-generating (albeit this has been off the political agenda for a while), but as always the cover-up may be more politically problematic than the failure itself.</p><p>Watch out for <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/RishiSunakPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RishiSunakPM</span></a>'s distraction strategy to kick in</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>More on the one <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>covid</span></a> rule for us & another for them (that lay behind <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/partygate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>partygate</span></a>)... from the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattHancock</span></a> WhastAp leaks comes the following incident:</p><p>On hearing one of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/JacobReesMogg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JacobReesMogg</span></a>'s children was ill, arranged firstly for a (the rare) testing kit t be couriered to JRM's house, before then arranging for the test to be fast-tracked for the results...</p><p>There's lots else but this just sums up the continuing problem with the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tories</span></a>! </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/01/matt-hancock-whatsapp-messages-telegraph-covid-pandemic" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2023/mar/01/matt-hancock-whatsapp-messages-telegraph-covid-pandemic</span></a></p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>This morning the 'liberal' press' problem with confessing <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tories</span></a> has been exemplified by the coverage of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/matthancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>matthancock</span></a> </p><p>On one hand, they want to decry his rewriting of his 'diary' to absolve himself from blame for the covid-carehome debacle....</p><p>On the other, they want to believe his tales of being bullied by <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/michellemone" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>michellemone</span></a> ...</p><p>Of course the answer is: both stories are calibrated to be self-serving in one way or another & should be treated with a pinch of salt!</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Anyone who is surprised that <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MattHancock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MattHancock</span></a> seems to have rewritten his 'diary' entries to indicate <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/carehome" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>carehome</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>covid</span></a> infections were caused by staff, rather than his policy intervention of sending patients to care homes without testing for <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/coronavirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>coronavirus</span></a>, hasn't really understood the mendacity & corruption of the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tories</span></a>!</p>
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