Line of Duty spoof Boris video

I have watched this and agree that it is very clever. Initially I was amused by it, but as it went on I was saddened at what this country has become, what a drop in standards of public behaviour we are witnessing. Holysox, why would Russian trolls make a film about something that is patently true? I do agree though, that there are more important things being done by this government, laws which will harm daily life for many, and very few people care

Holysox, the video was apparently made by Led By Donkeys , a British anti-Brexit political campaign group which uses satire targeted at pro-Brexit politicians. Since the group's creation in December 2018, its four founders have been calling out what they call "thermonuclear hypocrisy".

Led by donkeys is anti Brexit. This LoD spoof is brilliant. It’s exactly the kind of satire that reminds people what we expect from public servants
I agree we want the government and opposition focussed on the danger from Russia snd the danger to our just about managing despite working three jobs. The 20£ should have stayed for UC claimants. It’s shameful to allow those having to decide whether to heat or eat to be harder hit then the wealthy
None of this means the PM shouldn’t face the consequences of his actions
No I didn’t break lockdown guidance
No I didn’t drink at work

Putin loves down and out, it makes his job easier !

A clever video advertising our Mickey Mouse Leader.

Yes EllanVannin, our PM is a laughing stock. That’s good for our enemies and not good for us, or our friends

We thought it was brilliant, so believeable.
I wonder if Line of Duty is coming back

Vicky McLure, from Nottingham, was on The One Show tonight- such a shame they did not mention this spoof!

People have short memories when it comes to Johnson's actions.

7 Nightingale Hospitals built (with great speed admittedly) at a cost of £530 million. There were 60 admissions in London.

This - from the King's Fund:

"The ‘five whys’ can be a simple but powerful way of getting to the root of an issue. But two whys may suffice in this case: were the Nightingales a waste of money? Why? Because they didn’t see many patients. Why? Because there weren’t enough staff to run them?

The largest Nightingale hospitals were reported to have 4,000 planned beds and would need 16,000 staff at full capacity (a higher staff complement than any hospital in England barring Barts Health NHS Trust and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust). For an NHS that entered the pandemic with 100,000 vacancies this would always have been an eyebrow-raising ask – as there were few supernumerary staff who could move to support the Nightingales without their local hospitals falling over.

And although, in extremis, the Nightingale staffing ratios could have been changed to allow a smaller group of staff to care for more patients, delivering sub-optimal care on a mass scale like this would have been a very different proposition to the narrative of an ‘ultimate insurance policy’ that we (thankfully) didn’t need."

Johnson is good at coming up with ideas - he does it all the time - but often the ideas aren't fully researched or costed.

He claims success for the vaccine rollout. All he did was to say it should happen. There is a good scientific base in the UK investigating and developing the necessary vaccines. All he had to do was to give the go ahead to quickly develop those vaccines.

Now the Vaccine Manufacturing and innovation Centre, opened in 2018 with public money, specifically to develop vaccines to help the UK deal with pandemics, is being sold off.

Whilst on the subject of health, Johnson continually states that the govt is building 40 new hospitals. This isn't the case:

25 are rebuilds of existing hospitals
12 are building new wings
3 are new hospitals - for non urgent cases.

The source for these figures is the BBC Fact Check