It would if we had a decent press to hold them to account but most of the tabloids excuse and defend them and large swathes of the public buy into it . After how quickly the Dominic Cummins affair has died down nothing’s sacred , even the potential illegal activities of the housing minister is stirring little interest .
Bojo and his team have nothing to be proud of. Again we aren't told how many people have been tested.
I’ve had exactly the same experience. They’ll compare us to the US or Spain and say ‘look we’ve not done that bar’ when we should be comparing ourselves with the best, ie, Germany and Portugal etc. I don’t expect us to be up there with South Korea because they were clearly far better prepared than the western nations due to SARS/MERS experience or New Zealand as our geographics and demographics are so dissimilar, but there is absolutely no reason we couldn’t have limited the damage as Germany et al have.
On the gov.uk questionaire site earlier it was asking people about the 2 metre rule and 58% wanted it kept at that. Another question went on about spending in the retail sector and 44% expect to spend less in it in the next 12 months. The government are in a position I wouldn't want to be in. Shops will struggle from so many expecting to spend less and people would have to queue longer to get in if two metres is kept in place.
Yes apologies stairfoot red, jamdrop explained it, I misread it hence the question. I agree with every word
According to this site, the UK has fewer annual air passengers than Ireland. Although that might be by airline registration (RyanAir are the busiest international airline by passenger numbers) https://knoema.com/atlas/ranks/Number-of-air-passengers-carried Although according to this, the UK is 3rd below USA and China - with about 25% more than Spain or Japan. https://www.iata.org/contentassets/a686ff624550453e8bf0c9b3f7f0ab26/wats-2019-mediakit.pdf By airports, Heathrow is 7th - below Tokyo and Dubai and just above CDG and Schipol.