The Pandemic Diaries - Penrith & The Border Labour Party

The Death & Infection Rates

These figures are taken from the following websites: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/ https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public Latest News the United Kingdom [source]…

June 2020: Confusion and Lockdown Fraying

1 June There have now been 6.1 million confirmed cases and 371,000 deaths linked to…

Labour’s Recovery Plan: red on the outside, green on the inside; still wearing socialism proudly, with planet-saving ambition powering it

As a born-and-bred Cumbrian I am encouraged that the whole Shadow Cabinet is taking rural,…

We Are Not All In This Together: Disparity in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19

The inquiry into disparities in the risk and outcomes of Covid-19 commissioned by the Department…

May 2020: The Progress is Much Too Slow!

4 May: The UK overtook the rest of Europe as the country with the highest…

The Questions That Dominic Cummings Hasn’t Answered

Questions 1. Dominic Cummings said that on 27 March he rushed home believing his wife…

The Mysterious Movements of Dominic Cummings: The Complete Dominic Cummings Timeline

18 March: At a Downing Street briefing, Boris Johnson says that “everyone” must follow the…

The Coronavirus and the Black Death

The coronavirus will probably kill far less than 1% of us. Although we have no…

A Turn For The Worse, April 2020

April 2020 On 1 April, April Fools Day, the Government revealed that only 2,000 of…

Johnson Announces “Operation Last Gasp” and Lockdown Begins, Late March 2020

Middle To late March The Care Home Fiasco Is Triggered On 7 March hospitals were…

Still No Lockdown in Early March 2020: “Take It On The Chin”

Early March “We are very, very well prepared” Johnson finally attended his first Cobra meeting…

Herd Immunity or Unprepared? February 2020

On 11 February, the WHO announced that the disease caused by new coronavirus would be called ‘COVID-19’.…