Now we have BSE rearing its ugly head  - Blame Someone Else!

Guardian saying the NHS app-ocalypse is delayed until June:

Plans to introduce coronavirus tracing have been hit by fresh uncertainty as it emerged that a mobile tracking app will not be ready until June.

Reading about the care homes disaster in the UK it makes me wonder how anyone sane can say the government has done a good job.

The bloke is a public menace !

As soon as possible? I hadn’t realised they had said that? Is this in addition to Peter English’s comments?

“The BMA wants schools to reopen as soon as it is safe to do so and the evidence allows – this could be before June 1 or after.”. (Note as soon as it is safe and the evidence allows. Very different to ASAP).

I think Brian has become IDS 

See if he turns up at PMQ's today and that will hopefully put you and a few others out of their misery 😃

Boris reminds me of a WW1 general, sending out his ministers to be mown down by the ranks of machine guns from the press while he stays in a dug-out, sorry, comfortable hotel, well back from the front line.

Or do you prefer the Duke of Plaza Toro "He led his army from behind / he found it less exciting" (G & S)

I tried to access this site last night but it was down. I was interested in whereabout's this work was available as assume in my head it mostly around Norfolk and Lincolnshire. Can't see anything on the site. I couldn't do the work as my back would not last 5 mins.

It's the second part of the verse that should worry us, DEW...

In enterprise of martial kind,
When there was any fighting,
He led his regiment from behind--
He found it less exciting.
But when away his regiment ran,
His place was at the fore, O--

Taken from

https://www.elyrics.net/read/g/gilbert-&-sullivan-lyrics/in-enterprise-of-martial-kind-lyrics.html

R.

Yes they are all certainly getting a run out in the spotlight. Share the blame!😀 I expect he will do PMQ's, but if he can save his energy for the long fight ahead still then glad if he is trying to save his strength. TBH, he does not need to be there for the updates, same old numbers, same old crappy questions personally I don't watch these now and get the summary afterwards. Saves hour and a half.

Perhaps Owen Paterson can put forward this plan to the nation rather than just to the cabinet? (as noted in the article, he claims it isn't true)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/14/tory-minister-wanted-uk-pensioners-to-be-low-wage-fruit-pickers

Surely you’ve noted Brian’s fondness for lobbing hand grenades into the discussions?

Yes indeed, although he does run the risk of having thrown the pin by mistake. 

He calls it a 'debate fertiliser'.

As some of us suggested last week the new slogan wouldn't last:

The Government has begun using a new slogan in its coronavirus response following criticism that its "Stay Alert" message was too vague.

It is advising the public to "Keep our distance, wash our hands, think of others and play our part. All together".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/19/keep-distance-new-coronavirus-slogan-quietly-pushed-replace/

I'm not totally appalled by the idea, having as a pensioner done asrt-time fruit-picking for the last 15 years or so and enjoyed it. Mind you, there are other things to be fitted in such as 24/7 care for my wife ;and also the picking itself being apples and pears - bending all day for ground-level picking would kill my back after a few hours. So not all plain sailing.