Tuesday, July 07, 2020

Johnson blames the victims

The Guardian carried this story.


"Care leaders, unions and MPs have rounded on Boris Johnson after he accused care homes of failing to follow proper procedures amid the coronavirus crisis, saying the prime minister appeared to be shifting the blame for the high death toll."

The search engine Ecosia said there were "no results" for this story. The government spokesman on the Today program flatly denied Johnson's words when they were quoted to him!

The Prime Minister said, "“We discovered too many care homes didn’t really follow the procedures in the way that they could have but we’re learning lessons the whole time."

Of course there were no procedures for them to follow. There was no testing, There was no PPE. As George Orwell put it, "Ignorance is Strength". As long as the Tories can rewrite history, they can tell a story in which they are the heroes.




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