Link to article I mentioned:
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Itâs fair to say that there are dodgy financial practices in the care industry - but equally a lot are independant businesses.
However attacking the workers in the care homes, even those run by overseas billionaires is a cowardly way of trying to absolve himself of responsibility.
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The Care sector has been the victim of lack of care through succeeding governments. Patient care is being subsidised by self supporting residents who pay over the odds to pick up the defecit created by inadequate payment from Councils via national government.
Closing down cottage hospitals when centralising cardiac care etc. instead of using them to keep older folk within their communities was a huge mistake.
No brain and foot in mouth yet again!
I heard one of the aâe lickers on the Today programme trying to explain it away by saying that no one really understood the procedures. That was so, but then why choose to attack care workers and not hospitals at the same time, especially when the care workers had been denied PPE which was diverted to hospitals.
The man is an utter disgrace and we need a whistle blower to let us all know the true state of affairs in No.10.
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Did a training course many years ago and the onus of good communication is on the sender. The sender has the duty, not just to transmit but to validate that the reception is clear and understood to be the same as the message sent.
It is a failure of duty to pump ambiguous garbage and then criticise because you didnât get your dream result.
It is also a leadership failing to attack team members publicly, particularly when the target is broad and generalist and unable to respond.
These people are unfit for office.
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Bolsinaro has been tested for covid!
Going on a course or not, it is only common sense not to attack the same people you and the whole country have been clapping for every Thursday night.
IMO effective communication with a small team to a nation should be based on the old adage, tell them what you are going to tell them, tell and then tell them what youâve told them AND keep you key points to three maximum. 
But to achieve that you do need to know what you are talking about. Blustering Boris could never be accused of that 
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Another longish read but quite damning of government performance in dealing with the pandemic.
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I read the article this morning and then watched the Ch 4 segment on the topic. Crace is right, Hancock has a gaunt, haunted look.
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I donât know which is the least defensible, a Prime Minister who read Classics at Oxford yet cannot explain himself properly, or all his hangers on trying to explain what he really meant.
What he meant was pretty clear but all the government does is push something out there, if it flies then OK, if not tell people how they misunderstood or did not âgetâ that it was humorous/not serious. Thereâs never an apology.
It is a tactic employed by every right wing populist leader at present (cf Trumpâs many examples but notably the bleach thing).
Itâs just gaslighting.
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⌠why donât British people take their holidays at home?
I suggest you refresh your memory by checking the weather forecast here.
- President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has [tested positive] for the coronavirus, after months of downplaying the seriousness of the pandemic.
Shame
We did feel very smug recently when we had a staycation⌠But as we live in France we popped to Provence.
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Hardship indeed Mat! My regular holidays in the UK came to an end when my son was very young. Three successive trips to North Devon ruined by rain. After that I took him to Greece and later Spain once Iâd realised the latter wasnât completely all about package holiday resorts. Happy days on the beach with blue skies and well away from noisy drunken Brits.
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Absolutely, classic Trump.