I wonder what our Welsh Windbag friend would have to say about the gigantic shit shower caused by Welsh Labour? If you want to know how badly Corbyn would have fucked up, look no further than the Welsh Assembly.
Labour's Corona crash: Damning exposé of Welsh Assembly's fatally cack-handed response shows how the Opposition would have fared if they were handling this crisis
A Labour MP, Dawn Butler, made the incendiary claim on television that the 'disgraceful' Tory leader is 'sending people out to catch the virus'.
This was part of a familiar pattern. For months, every perceived government shortcoming, from PPE shortages to testing delays to the Government slogan chosen for public information adverts, has been remorselessly attacked.
That is what happens in a vibrant democracy, you may say.
Yet what Ms Butler, Sir Keir and almost every other Left-wing critic is less keen to explain is what, if anything, Labour would have done differently.
Fortunately, we don't actually need to ask them. Because to see how Labour is handling a real coronavirus outbreak, you just need to head west on the M4 until you reach Wales.
Here, Sir Keir's party has been in government since the late 1990s. It has sole charge of the health and social care systems — and is responsible for almost every aspect of the coronavirus response, from running hospitals to securing care homes to testing, tracing and making lockdown rules.
In other words, Labour is running the show. And compared with England's Conservative administration, it is falling woefully short on almost every measurable front, at times displaying surreal levels of incompetence.
Take testing, now widely accepted as the most crucial way to identify and contain virus outbreaks and save lives.
Over the past week, the English Government carried out between 90,000 and 133,000 tests every day. In Wales, that figure ranged between 956 and 1,421.
So, two months into this crisis, the Labour government has been delivering no more than 1,421 tests a day — that's not far off one hundredth of the number of tests England seems able to complete (when, by comparison, Wales has one eighteenth of the population).
Between Monday and Friday, the average number of tests per day in Wales was 1,263. And this hasn't been an unusually poor week.
In fact, the total number of people that an administration run by Mr Starmer's party has tested since the pandemic began is 54,584. That's about half the number being tested in England every day.
What lies behind this failure is a combination of negligence and stupidity.
For example, until very recently, tests carried out in North Wales were being sent on a day-long journey to Cardiff for analysis because Welsh officials refused to use an English 'mega-lab' facility in Alderley Park, Cheshire, which was about an hour away.
The numbers comparison is all the more striking when you consider the bullish promises Labour made to the people of Wales about testing when the lockdown had just begun.
On March 21, for example, the party's Health Minister, Vaughan Gething, set a target of 9,000 tests a day by the end of April — a figure that seems to have been chosen to compete with the 100,000-a-day target set by England's Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
The 9,000 target was reiterated by Labour's first minister, Mark Drakeford, on April 3. He promised the people of Wales that his government would hit 5,000 tests a day by the middle of the month.
Just over a fortnight later, though, the headline-grabbing figure was dropped. With daily tests around the 700 mark, Mr Drakeford conceded on April 20 that targets were being abandoned, blaming circumstances 'outside our own control'.
What exactly those circumstances were remains unclear.
However, giving evidence in the Senedd (Welsh Parliament) last week, the chief executive of Public Health Wales, Dr Tracey Cooper — who in theory is helping to run Drakeford's testing system — revealed she was 'not familiar' with the 9,000 target figure and had never been made aware of it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...pompous-attacking-Tories-handling-crisis.html
Do our Italian friends and partners (as Boris would no doubt call them) have any comments on the Belgian government?
