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2 1 April 2020 TROUBLEMAKER
Socialist Worker

Government knew the NHS

could not cope with the virus

THE THINGS critical care beds. ‘‘ PIGS OF
THEY SAY THE NHS failed a test of its in the NHS’s “surge capacity”,
while mortuaries were rapidly THE WEEK
ability to withstand a major
‘I shook hands pandemic more than three overwhelmed because of a
years ago but the results
lack of doctors able to certify
with everybody’ were not made public. causes of death.
The three-day practice run
Questions were also raised
Boris Johnson before it was across the government found about the supply of life-saving
confirmed he has coronavirus Britain would be quickly over- protective equipment for
‘Thoughts and whelmed by an outbreak. doctors and nurses, sources
It highlighted a shortage
told the paper.
prayers of whole of personal protective equip- THE GOVERNMENT knew the NHS wouldn’t cope with a pandemic tion in a 2016 speech—in one Chalking up the fines
Speaking about the opera-
ment, morgue capacity and
nation with @ of few public references to the
The test—codenamed government source told the the track.” More than 1,000 exercise—then-chief medical
BorisJohnson’ Exercise Cygnus—was car- Sunday Telegraph newspa- organisations took part in the officer Dame Sally Davies #1 ‘There will
Former Tory health secretary ried out in October 2016. But per, “There has been a reluc- 2016 exercise. said, “We’ve just had in the UK be anarchy’
Jeremy Hunt on Twitter. The its findings were deemed too tance to put Cygnus out in the NHS trusts, the military a three-day exercise on flu on
‘whole nation’? sensitive to be made public. public domain because frankly and doctors’ associations a pandemic that killed a lot of THE MET Police
threatened to fine a
were asked to show how they people.
The results of the study it would terrify people.
‘Very best wishes were said to have prompted “It’s right to say that the would cope with a major “It became clear that we bakery boss £80 for
criminal damage after
to the Prime ministers to draft emergency NHS was stretched beyond influenza outbreak. could not cope with the she put temporary
legislation that formed the breaking point [by Cygnus].
The report used modelling excess bodies, for instance. It
Minister and his basis of the wideranging “People might say we have by the same Imperial College becomes very worrying about lines outside her shop
Coronavirus Bill that was blood on our hands but the London team whose work is the deaths, and what that will
to keep her customers
family’ rushed through the Commons fact is that it’s always easier now being used to track the do to society as you start to safe from coronavirus.
last week.
to manage the last outbreak Covid-19 outbreak. It is said get all those deaths, [includ-
The incident took
Shadow health secretary One former senior than the one coming down to have found significant gaps ing] the economic impact.” place outside the
Jonathan Ashworth shows Grodzinski bakery in
some national unity Edgware, north west
CELEBRITY CHEF wanker of the week US BILLIONAIRE hedge London. The officer told
‘Misunderstand- laward goes to Gordon Ramsay. l fund manager Bill Ackman the woman that she had
Ramsay laid off more than 500 of his
ings’ staff. Axed employees took to social media has made $2.6 billion out of graffitied the pavement.
the coronavirus crisis. Ackman
The woman said,
Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley to blast Gordon Ramsay Restaurants for had bet that the outbreak “This is not graffiti, it’s
explains away his attempts to ending their contracts out of the blue. would cause a market crash. chalk, it washes off. So
keep shops open Staff have been told by email they will Did his claims that “hell is you would rather all my
get paid up until 17 April, but say there coming” on national TV help to customers don’t stand
‘People are going is no guarantee their job will still be stoke the market panic? two metres apart?”
available. Ramsay is “worth” £185 million.
The officer replied,
to have to choose ‘It’s my money, now fuck off’ “It’s still a criminal
what they want Evictions are on the rise offence. The law is
the law and it doesn’t
to die from, ‘Kink community’ on change because of what
hunger or the despite Tories’ pledge Tory fetish for cuts is happening.
“There would be
virus’ anarchy in the world.”
Head of Airbus contractor AN EVICTIONS firm says A MEDICAL fetish firm
Derichebourg Aeronautics it is taking on extra staff says it has donated
Services Pascal Lannette to kick out “a record its entire stock of
urges French workers to number of tenants”. disposable scrubs to an
resume production The coronavirus NHS hospital that was
‘Suspend their legislation leaves up to “desperate” for supplies.
20,000 renters at risk of
In a thread posted
studies’ losing their homes because Tenants are still being evicted on Twitter, MedFetUK That’ll teach it
wrote, “We have been
it is not backdated.
Advice from York university Instead, a bar on contacted this week by
for students who are too poor court proceedings only have been gained. We representatives of NHS #2 Boys in blue
to have IT equipment and kicked in last week. And are evicting a record procurement all over MedfetUK merchandise
internet access to study offsite landlords can still inform number of both private the country, trying to pollute pool
tenants of an intention and commercial tenants. source basic protective seriously wrong. In fact,
to evict them after late “We have appointed equipment and clothing. it’s scandalous. POLICE have dyed the
June. This forces many new agents to cope “When we, a tiny “This is the result normally bright blue
to prepare to move out. with the rapid increase company set up to serve of a decade of chronic water of a beauty spot
One email from a in evictions. a small section of the underfunding and cuts in Buxton black, in a bid
property management “Estate agents, property kink community, find which has left the NHS to deter people from
company read, “We own management agents and ourselves being sought barely able to cope under gathering there.
a business which has a landlords are very keen to out as a last-resort normal circumstances, The disused
department where we evict evict tenants as they need supplier to our National much less when faced quarry at Harpur Hill
private and commercial the rent paid in full during Health Service in a time with the onslaught of a was considered too
tenants when court orders these difficult times.” of crisis, something is global pandemic.” picturesque by plods.
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