Does anyone else think that at the next General Election...

It is shambolic the way this issue has been dealt with. Why was the UK so ill-prepared with safety equipment having been warned as early as 2015 of the likelihood of a pandemic? Why were elderly and vulnerable patients discharged into Care Homes without being tested for the virus – most of us known because they were considered dispensable. This emergency has been governed by an elite inexperienced few who have no understanding of the real world of the majority. It claimed that funding would be made available to cover the cost of all necessity and now running around like headless chickens over the cost to the economy. The Queen is quarantined at Windsor for the foreseeable future what does this tell us about the safety of vulnerable and elderly going out and mixing. Inexperience, inexperience! BJ stutters and stumbles to answer any questions and when he does, he puts his foot in his mouth. This is not just a government in disarray it is one made of ill-equipped boys unable to lead, think or make a decisive decision. Heaven help us!

I think GillT57 has a point. RS looks likely to be the next Conservative party leader. I quite like him. I can’t see a GE any time soon.

I don't know where you are getting your data from, EV, but the 5 year averages the ONS uses will include winter flu deaths and this year's excess deaths are well in excess of them through to the end of May.

Well it was either unemployment or working through the virus. What would any of us have done ? Risk it, perhaps like the front-line workers have done, NHS and food providers ?

I bet a lot of companies and workers, who didn't contract the virus were wishing they had taken a chance !

Let's face it, the amount of deaths we've had doesn't exceed many against a winter of 'flu deaths in the country.

We may not have a GE soon and I hope by the time we do have one I can feel there is a party worth voting for.

Incidentally, I do not want a GE, do not want any other party in government; they brought about this looming Brexit disaster and they can damn well see it through.

I don't think we will have a GE soon, but I also think that the cowardly Johnson will be gone by Christmas, January at the latest " I promised to take this country out of EU, and having achieved this, I am standing down to allow others to see this through" which is Johnson speak for this job is far harder than I thought it would be, I can't be ar*ed with detail, I am getting fed up with Starmer making me look a fool, I think I will clear off onto the lucrative after dinner speech circuit with my mates

I can see the possibility of a good deal of unrest next year when the number of unemployed rockets to a possible 6 or 7 million+ and the effects of a no deal Brexit are felt in huge difficulties with food supplies (despite the optimistic 'wave it through' 'plan' that the tories have proposed). I'm not sure if the government would weather it if the 'unrest' turns a bit nasty...

I'd be worried if it came to a contest between Sunak and Starmer because of the strange devotion of the British voter to wealth and poshness in their leaders.

Yes, there seems to be a general view that Rishi Sunak will be the next Conservative party leader.

Much as I'd like to see the Conservatives out and Starmer as PM, I can't imagine an early election unless something seismic happens.
We are though, living in unusual times.

I do think that Rishi Sunak will be the next Conservative leader.

Not sure about an early election, with an eighty seat majority surely even Boris/his successor would go to the polls before they had to?