From:
slider@anashram.com
30th march. (yesterday coz the figures have since gone up by yet another
563 today)
Boris Johnson is facing calls to release data showing why he needed to
lock down the U.K. to slow the spread of coronavirus last week.
The British prime minister ordered the most sweeping curbs on the
population ever imposed, shutting restaurants, gyms, schools and shops,
and banning people from gathering in public.
In the hours before Johnson made his decision on March 23, his official spokesman, James Slack, said such a crackdown would be based on data on footfall in shops and streets, as well as information on how people were interacting in parks and other public spaces.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-31/boris-johnson-faces-calls-to-release-data-behind-u-k-s-lockdown
Yet despite repeated questions to Johnson’s officials, the government has refused to provide this data that prompted the lockdown. Now members of Parliament from across the political spectrum are calling on Johnson’s government to release it so the public can see why the stringent measures
were needed -- and whether they could or should have been taken earlier.
Johnson’s government has faced repeated questions over its virus strategy, which has differed from other countries in the speed and extent of the lockdowns imposed, and on the use of testing. By Tuesday, 1,789 people in
the U.K. had died, up from 1,408 the day before -- the biggest daily rise
so far.
While it was “entirely proper” for ministers to base their decisions rigorously on the data, “the basis of the decision should be put in the public domain immediately,” said David Davis, a senior Conservative who
has served in the cabinet alongside Johnson. “There is no excuse for delay since the information must have been available before the decision was taken.”
Legislators said the government must work harder to be transparent at a
time when people’s liberties had been dramatically curtailed and
Parliament has been closed. There are also concerns that police are
misusing new powers handed to them in emergency legislation, targeting individuals for buying certain items in shops such as chocolate Easter
eggs.
‘Extraordinary Powers’
“We’ve handed over extraordinary powers to the government for obvious and good reason,” said opposition Labour Party MP Wes Streeting. “But it’s important that the Government is clear and transparent about how and why
those powers are being used.”
The Scottish National Party and the Welsh nationalists Plaid Cymru also demanded the data be released. “It would be better if the Government is as transparent as possible,” said Ian Blackford, the SNP’s Westminster
Leader. “The data should be published.”
The U.K. and Welsh governments cannot even provide vital virus testing or protective equipment for health workers, “let alone lockdown data” for the public, said Liz Saville Roberts, Westminster leader for Plaid Cymru.
“They may well be happy to operate without legitimacy as they’re evidently operating without competency.”
Asked again on Tuesday -- a week after the question was first put to him
-- why the government is not releasing the data, Slack said the government would be transparent where possible but was bound by European Union data protection rules.
“Where it’s possible to publish data, and where we think doing so will
give the public a better understanding of the threat of the virus, then we
are committed to doing so,” Slack told reporters. Officials added that
there was evidence transport use had fallen dramatically since the
lockdown was imposed.
Democracy campaigners at the Electoral Reform Society urged House of
Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to convene the Liaison Committee of senior parliamentarians during recess, to scrutinize the government’s expanded powers.
“Cabinet is showing that politics can continue to function during this crisis,” Chief Executive Officer Darren Hughes said. “Parliament must show the same, with the speaker leading the way in providing accountability at
this urgent hour.”
### - aww c'mon, be fair, they needs quite a long time to FUCK with the
data properly innit! LOL :)))
and is just curious really why they wouldn't wanna release it?
(prolly reveals a complete about-turn moment when they suddenly reversed
that really crummy idea of just letting it run its course as a means to "building up the herd immunity" crap? and don't wanna look bad/remind
everyone of it etc...)
and don't think they can't do it either lol, they can (and do) anything
they like where 'data' is concerned? (i flinch every time they just use
the term heh)
e.g., that time in the falklands, when one of our nuclear subs sank the bellgrano killing maybe 1000 soldiers on board? the argentinians claimed
they were leaving the area after being warned off, whereas our lot
reckoned they had ignored the warnings and were heading 'towards' the
falklands not moving away, and that that's why they gave the order to sink
it!
calls were then made to 'produce' the log of that nuclear sub to examine
what was logged at the time before and after etc, and do ya know they unbelievably claimed??
they claimed they were unable to produce it because it had somehow become
(wait for it lol) "mislaid" and that they couldn't find it??? LOL
ffs! how the fuck do ya 'misplace' the log of a nuclear fucking submarine
for christsakes??
can't ya just imagine the security surrounding such an item??? lol...
and they gots away with it too!!!
and if'n they can gets away with summat like THAT then what *can't* they
get away with eh?
anything mate! absolutely anything at all...
public 'reality' all being very carefully scripted and edited from behind
the scenes to run very smoothly...
like a theme-park has to be for example?
'theme' being the appropriate term here heh ;)
roll-up folks! roll-up! getcher' tickets to ride!
aaall-aboard for the next ride! :)
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