Resuming family visits in every care home deserves to be a priority.
Nobody should lightly dismiss the mortal danger Covid-19 poses to residents.
About a third of all lives lost to the virus were in care homes which were turned into killing fields by, at least in part, the Conservative Government’s reckless incompetence.
Yet the success of the NHS mass vaccination programme would allow those still blocking visitors, except for end-of-life visits, to reopen their doors for controlled, protected, face-to-face reunions between loved ones.
We may need to be cautious when easing lockdown restrictions across the UK but ending loneliness is a noble goal.
Stop cronyism
Contracts handed at public expense to Tory donors, friends and associates put into a VIP queue… this is a pandemic scandal that must be investigated.
Labour puts the value of these deals at up to £2billion during the pandemic and some of them, which saw taxpayers’ money channelled to companies with links to Conservative ministers and Downing Street officials, certainly smell like a scamdemic.
Hard-working Britons paying their taxes deserve to know that their money is spent efficiently and wisely, so the suspension of Whitehall tendering during the virus crisis is a potentially huge scandal.
Turning Britain into a one-party state – a Conservative chumocracy – would create bad government. Let’s forensically examine who benefited financially from coronavirus.
