And about 60% of the voting public.

Isolation for those coming back from overseas and especially those from worst hit areas should have been imposed from day 1, along with flight restrictions.
Hit the thing hard and hit it early, may have been sensible, instead of "lets leave it as long as we can", which just means it takes longer to get through.

It’s too late we have allowed the majority of those wishing to enter the country come in or come back. The majority of airlines no longer operate a flying schedule so the impact will be minimal other than for the Farages of this world who will no doubt be once again breaking the stay at home policy to travel to his favourite destination in Kent.

I honestly thought there was a quarantine period for people travelling here. It's been in place in most other countries for at least at a month now.
It seems ridiculous that it wasn't already in place.

Welcome to the pandemic response Johnson style.

The likes of wire-quin will be proud of Nige.
He's fighting them on the beaches.

He's only fighting those who dont look English so, it's ok

Well done Rishi & HMG. The furlough scheme now extended to the end of October, with flexibility from August to bring people back part-time and still participate in the scheme, with the employer also contributing.

Outstanding levels of support. Fantastic. Although it's likely most mortgage holidays will end within this period, this again helps protect and save millions of jobs and homes.

Any sniff of appreciation or gratitude from the left?

Anything?

Anyone?

Hello?

Are you going to apologise for the many errors made by the government and the excess deaths this will have caused.

Just had a chuckle that the Chancellor has rejected claims that people could get 'addicted' to furlough.
Good to be back at work.
No office staff, most of the bigwigs are working from home.
Just the troops on the ground making the most of 'toss-off' central.
Happy days.

Fantastic work financially (although how much of it is a smoke screen to deflect away from inadequacies in other areas I'm not sure).
However, as you say, none of this means anything to the potential 40k that have lost loved ones etc.
How many more deaths have been avoided by the actions the government took? Unknown and debatable
How may have died that didnt need to? Unknown and debatable and questions need to be asked.

With regards to Sweden I agree, however I heard a stat yesterday and still cant get my head round it.50% of the households in Sweden live alone?
And x amount more are married without kids and very rarely to peoppenover 25 live at home.
If that's the case then that completely changes their demographic to ours?

I saw on twitter that Rishi Sunak has now announced more spending in three months as Chancellor than Gordon Brown did in 10 years.

If even right wingers now regard this as a policy to be applauded it shows how much Corbyn and McDonnell shifted the argument.

It's got rock all to do with shifting the argument.
This really is needs must and plugging holes to prevent drowning.

As I mentioned in a previous post, just imagine the absolute outrage from the right wing politicians had Labour been in power at these most testing of times.
People are saying that Starmer should go along with the government and offer unequivocal support but, I stagger to think of how things would be the other way around (politically speaking).

Having started the furlough scheme and with lockdown not yet lifted for the vast majority of the population, Sunak had no choice here and the fiscal hole grows ever larger.