Your post means nothing. Instead of whingeing try getting behind the government for the good of the nation at a time of crisis. Everyone except Corbyn and some of his acolytes appear to be accepting this.

The Labour mayor of Manchester is a beacon of sense in all his statements on LBC radio. The government is doing its best so try being constructive for a change.

Surely the constructive approach is a critical analysis of the response, not, as you seem to be suggesting, a blind support of our government's actions at a time when those actions matter more than ever?

Whatever your thoughts on Corbyn are, and I accept that there are very few who will say a positive word about him on here, it seems pretty reasonable for him to feel a little schadenfreude at the minute. He has essentially had his political credibility shattered in the past 5 years, because his proposals were too radical: spending too much, nationalising everything, bumping up welfare to implausible levels, offering a criticism of capitalism, whatever it was. Well, now we are in a situation where the government has plundered more money than he could ever have dreamed of, nationalised half of industry, is essentially paying the wages of the majority of Britain's workforce, and capitalism looks very much like its hit a crisis it may never recover from.

Is he being disingenuous in saying he was proved right? Yes. But I think there is a deeper significance to what's happening here, which is that the free market ideology which has dominated our politics for 40 years, and even to some degree the nationalistic one which fuelled Brexit, are luxury ideals that cannot survive moments of existential crisis. When our lives are at risk, it is cooperative, communalistic networks which save us from sliding in to barbarism.

My prediction? Boris will come out of this looking good, as most leaders around the world will, but he lacks the political imagination required to restructure an entire society, which with every day that passes looks more likely to be required. When society collapses, you need something more than a man who is essentially a PR-savvy narcissist at the helm.

So the government should have locked us all down for 3 months and zipped its purse shut with the words not my problem you should've saved up.
Boris has intelligent people around him so no doubt the talk of normality is already being discussed.
Jeremy has diane abbot... end of chat.

Surely the constructive approach is a critical analysis of the response, not, as you seem to be suggesting, a blind support of our government's actions at a time when those actions matter more than ever?

Whatever your thoughts on Corbyn are, and I accept that there are very few who will say a positive word about him on here, it seems pretty reasonable for him to feel a little schadenfreude at the minute. He has essentially had his political credibility shattered in the past 5 years, because his proposals were too radical: spending too much, nationalising everything, bumping up welfare to implausible levels, offering a criticism of capitalism, whatever it was. Well, now we are in a situation where the government has plundered more money than he could ever have dreamed of, nationalised half of industry, is essentially paying the wages of the majority of Britain's workforce, and capitalism looks very much like its hit a crisis it may never recover from.

Is he being disingenuous in saying he was proved right? Yes. But I think there is a deeper significance to what's happening here, which is that the free market ideology which has dominated our politics for 40 years, and even to some degree the nationalistic one which fuelled Brexit, are luxury ideals that cannot survive moments of existential crisis. When our lives are at risk, it is cooperative, communalistic networks which save us from sliding in to barbarism.

My prediction? Boris will come out of this looking good, as most leaders around the world will, but he lacks the political imagination required to restructure an entire society, which with every day that passes looks more likely to be required. When society collapses, you need something more than a man who is essentially a PR-savvy narcissist at the helm.

Oh come on she cant count so probably cant spell her own name either. Point was have the government done the correct thing in helping the masses? If jeremy and his cohorts would have done the same then you cant really criticise.
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Yeah but would a Labour government under Corbyn have spent the last 10 years cutting the NHS to the bone? Would they have prioritised finance and big business over social workers and public sector workers?

It's almost like a dark comedy...

Corbyn: save our NHS

Tories: Get Brexit done (employs private healthcare official as health secretary)

*Global pandemic pushed NHS past breaking point*

Tory voters: no one could've foreseen that the NHS was underprepared...