Our government in action: more like inaction. And certainly slow motion.
Whenever a new crisis hits they start thinking, not acting. They stall, then come give hollow reassurances that things are not too bad and everything will soon be back under control.
It has been going on since the start of the pandemic and we are getting more proof every week.
Typical is their reaction to the lorry driver shortage that is threatening to cripple many business, affecting all our lives.
For nearly two weeks the transport secretary for England, Grant Shapps, has blamed people for panicking at the pumps while he panics about what to do.
His not so bright idea: get 5,000 drivers over from Europe when we need 100,000. Call up the army? A favourite ploy, a last throw of the dice. I remember us using the army green goddess fire engines during a strike when I was in local government over forty years ago.
Each day the government dithers while the sleepy PM, after a week’s silence, wakes up to tell the nation, yes, don’t panic, that it is getting better while garage queues continue.
‘Army on standby’ announced the headlines two days ago. Today it is ‘Army to deliver fuel in days'.
What a way to run the country.
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