Anybody had any experience of it? Must admit ours has been poor.

Sons family requested self-tests. Took over 2 days to arrive via Amazon, when supposed to be next day. One tested positive. Took them nearly 29 hours between test result being received and being contacted to ask who they’d been in contact with. One ‘advisor’ told them they did not need to self-isolate despite a positive test if they were showing no symptoms! Apparently it was the girl’s first day and she seemingly misread her script!

Three of us went to a drive in test centre on Friday. Seemed to be a huge job creation scheme. That aside, despite various ID checks they gave us cards to take away on which they’d got the two women’s position in the car the wrong way round. Luckily, we all tested negative but had one of the ladies lasted positive and the other negative, we would not have known which was positive and which negative!

Seems a lot of money is being chucked down the drain.

Ah, how I've missed you and your made up stories, glad to kow you are well.

You are asking to be questioned by those who think they know better and believe everything Johnson says. They actually believe we have a world beating system despite yours and many others experience to the contrary.
We will now just need to wait for SC, IR80 and very little Wayne to come on to remind us how much worse it would have been for you if Labour was in charge.

ah bless, the bleating whines of a beaten soul. Pathetic.

Corbyn would have had the IRA and Hamas running the test centres, then the tests would be sent off to Venezuela where they would then take a fortnight to turn round, by which time the positive testees would be dead as Corbyn hates the UK and is envious of anyone catching anything more than they should. Or something like that.

Stupid boy (or is it girl?)!

The one stonewall fact is that we dont have a "world beating" test and trace system, it's not even close.

The thing is, now that Johnson is wearing a mask, it's harder to know if he's telling lies.
Before, it was easy, as when his lips moved, you knew that he was lying.
Now, with mask in place, its not quite so easy

The core problem with it is people not leaving their details, a bit like the number of people not wearing masks.

Sorry to disappoint you Tovarisch or agent 13 or whatever, but I won't be coming on here defending or slating any of the political parties so please don't try and infer that I'm anti labour , while your at it please cut out the personal stuff as I don't want to get embroiled in your bitterness towards good old Boris.

Scimnel knows no better, he hates everyone and everything that is's a rampant poorly educated socialist.

The core problem is that we do not have a "World Beating" test and trace system.
Primarily because those in government didn't understand modern technology, rendering the mobile app useless.
Like playing a Betamax video on VHS

I take your point that people need to "comply" in order to make any system work effectively but, if you know that and I know that, just why didn't our Prime Minister realise that we were MILES AWAY from a world beating system.

I'm all for a bit of enthusiasm but, Boris is more used to bullsh***, which helps no one.

He would have been better placed in leaving "world beating" out of the conversation.

He's anti tory because he didn't qualify for the sale of his council house under Thatcher's rule.

It must be working better than any of us knew because they can now stand down 6000 tracers despite the success rate falling. I wonder if this could be another government u turn, no it isn’t because according to Dido it was always their intention to use local tracing system it’s just nobody knew. They had apparently listened to what others had suggested months ago but due to Johnson not wanting to be considered not his own man he persevered with the current failing system.

I'd love to track and trace the money which has been dished out during this pandemic. Millions of pounds to government chums for 'techy stuff' which will never work in the situation it's intended to, and will never be questioned why.

I can't wait for Jaws 5, you might stop trotting out the same old same old.

The ELECTED Government (not the minnow socialists in the sewer of hate and despair) rere doing their best.

Stammer promised a change in politics, all he has done is given more reasons to never vote for the lunatic left.

That’s strange because he is more popular and trusted than Johnson.

For Dominic Cummings, yes. For the country, no.

With that reply, I take it you're happy with the millions being dished out to the Tory chumocracy? Dido Harding and mates of Cummings. Millions which could be spent on the schools you're so keen to get the kids back to. If only I believed you were so concerned about kids getting an education. You're just like the rest of the right wing headbangers. You just want kids in school so there is child care for their parents to get back to work and keep the wheels of the economy turning to the levels of pre 2020.

This current government and its cheer leaders are abosulutely terrified that the UK will set sail on a whole new course for the 2020s as they may not fare as well as they did pre 2020. They had it good back then, and they want to keep it that way. They are desperate for things to return to the good old days of 2019. And you say it's the left who live in the past.

if you dont understand the importance of the economy then we should remove your right to vote, lefties just think we can borrow and spend. Lab-bore have never done anything positive for the country, even the NHS is a f'd up beurocracy because of them. Look at all the cities in decline, Labour councils and idiot electorate.

Cities are in decline because the 'cathedrals of retail' model they are built on is a relic of the 20th century. Why would people travel, pay for parking, spend hours traipsing round generic shops for far eastern made tat when they can just browse the Internet in the comfort of their own home and have a multitude of products delivered the next day? Cities are due a massive reinvention, and I'm afraid retail should be near the bottom of the list of priorities.

I hope you have a decent Co Op ...funeral plan, save us all the cost of an idiots burial.

If you have a pension (which I doubt you have ever earnt enough to invest in), economies drive progress, not the Hovis theme tune and Last of The Summer W(h)ine. Cleggy.

Yes, economies drive pensions but as Mrs Thatcher taught you, tying up capital in old, failing industries is not the way forward. Retail shops fall into that category and, as we will soon find, a lot of commercial property too (as part owner of a commercial property in London that will not be good for me).

If/when the likes of Marks & Spencer and Debenhams finally turn off their life support machines there will be holes in city centres akin to the blitz bombings. Nobody will ever take over retail spaces that big again. The huge BHS in Wakefield has been stood empty for years. It's a symbol of a failed retail model and the financial mismanagement that goes with it.

Landlords are suffering too, especially with tenants such as well known restaurants chains and coffee shops as tenants and especially if they (the landlords) have bank loans. Chains seem to be just saying to landlords, at least the smaller ones, they are not going to pay their rent for months.

Come on big lad, put forward a counter argument and tell us how / if city centres can be re-invigorated and cut out the schoolyard stuff.

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