Support bubbles
From tomorrow, single adult households will be able to mix with one other household in ‘support bubbles’, helping those who are suffering from loneliness during this difficult time.
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Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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The govenments list of "cans and cants" with regard to lockdown is pretty much over. The Cummings saga unlocked that gate, then the protests and statue removal saga ripped the gate from its hinges and thew it on a bonfire.
Brexit was supposed to be the Johnson adminstrations Falklands, but i dont think thats going to pan out. With out the covid bug June would have been a crucial month, but thats pretty much bye the bye now.
Most people - fortunately - do continue to make an effort to maintain social distancing. That effort is why the number of deaths and new infections is massively down on where it was a few weeks ago and still falling.
I think people - and the press in particular - need to be careful of saying things like "the government has lost its authority and people have stopped taking their advice and more are dying as a result" because such comments could easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The government has lost its authority, thats just a statement of fact. Cummings and the riots have stripped away trust and when trust is gone the govenment have no authority. Thats just the way it is, its not self fulfilling, without trust then authority is gone.
The governments handing of the covid situation has been dire. I dont think a single avoidable trap was not hit. Also remember there are the 4 big things to answer at the end and more and more people are demanding a full public enquiry, and I dont think a whitewash like Chilcot will be accepted.
Not even the Chilcot bit - the problem with Sir John's report was that although he absolutely tore Blair to shreds it took him so long to do it (seven years IIRC) that by the time the report came out it was effectively history.
Although if you had said "a whitewash like the Hutton report" would not be accepted (that was the one which cleared the government of wrongdoing and excoriated the BBC) I might have agreed.