It does make you think. Let's hope in time we get a more complete picture.

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Varadkar has said the same about Ireland.

Fair enough. The initial problem, imo, was that no-one knew what we were dealing with and to a certain extent still don’t. It would appear the virus was around before we were aware and the Chinese seem to have been somewhat secretive about the whole issue. With regard to decisions being taken I can only conclude that these were on the advice of Senior Civil Servants, who the Government seem to have total confidence in (bizarrely). As an example, years ago when Poland were about to join the EU, an advisor whom I was friendly with, told the Government that only between 10-12000 would come and most would go back after a short time. This is not a dig at the Poles but trying to highlight the type of advice the Government receives. Couple that with each department working to a budget, there are disasters waiting to happen.
Hopefully the present situation will lead to massive changes in the way the Civil Service operates, but there again....

Slightly happy ?No way, much prefer no deaths and tip my cap to Boris and say i was wrong, but unfortunately i was right, they are not that good,although done well in places, but far to many clangers, and over 30000 dead, so no slightly happy mate, but not suprised!

This kind of conspiracy theory is all over the internet.

Would you kindly give us the source of this particular version so it's probable reliability can be assessed.

When you do you might like to first check out this fact checking site:-

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Edited by Wisbech Eagle (07 May 2020 5.47pm)

Reports are we had it here in December. How on gods earth could any government know how bad it was getting or going to get. Any one was going to get 'spannered' in that scenario.