It seems Varian, that you are doing what always happens on here and painting everyone who doesn't agree with you as suddenly "right-wing". I have never been right-wing in my life and that is not what is setting the parameters for my way of looking at this. In fact, I rather think I have been more left-wing than you have, at times in the past - not that it matters of course but unsubstantiated name-calling certainly does.
Having got the standard name-calling, from some, out of the way I would draw your attention to the vicar who asked if anyone who was fined for travelling to obtain child-care could be reimbursed. Matt Hancock was all in favour of this although he will have to check the details with the Treasury but thinks it would be the right thing to do.
The vicar was then interviewed on Sky. Asked his reasons for asking the question he said he wanted people to have a fair solution. He was then referred back to those people who could not be with loved ones when they died and could not attend funerals. He agreed this was difficult, he had conducted Last Rites over Skype or similar at times and it was awful that they could not attend the funeral but it was not, he said, the same - and I agree. I could not get to my mother's home in February when they rang me - too busy being sick, sadly. But she was somewhere where I know she had care, as were those in care homes and in hospital. That is very different from a child whose parents may not be in a position to provide care for a child.
And yet the media and even people on here wind those who were in this position up to even greater anger than they already feel. I call that wicked to be honest and I don't think this for any of your simplistic and oh so very far of the mark reasons.
Interviewed on Sky later, the
