know, so that we can all work together to beat the
virus.
Two weeks after the Nike Conference in Edinburgh where 25 people may have contracted the virus, over 250 000 attended the Cheltenham four-day horse racing event and:
Prof Gabriel Scally, former director of public health in the south west and visiting professor of public health at the University of Bristol, said there “seemed to be” a high number of virus cases in Gloucestershire.’ Government data shows there have been 972 cases of the virus in Gloucestershire, and 147 people have died.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-52380282
Local Conservative MP Laurence Robertson, whose constituency Cheltenham is in, attended this year’s festival but said there should not be a public inquiry. Wonder why? All those deaths among his constituents? Surely he want answers? See this:
Gloucestershire MPs have received more than £8,000 worth of free tickets for sporting events since the last General Election, an exclusive investigation for Gloucestershire Live has revealed. Betting firms, media companies and sporting organisations are amongst those who have lavished 13 sets of tickets on our county’s politicians. Those tickets had an estimated value of £8,243 and covered horse racing and polo. Tewkesbury MP Laurence Robertson received more tickets than any other MP in our county and the second most of any MP in the country.
Robertson’s donors in 2019/20: Racecourse Association twice, William Hill three times, The Jockey Club three times, Chester Race Company, Coral Ltd, Betting and Gaming Council,
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10505/laurence_robertson/tewkesbury/votes
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
BBC Scotland has now broadcast 2 interviews with ANONYMOUS tour guides in connection withe the Nike thing.
pathetic!
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And know them through Ian Murray, not through GP’s, hospitals or testing centres.
Odd?…….. No, its the BBC.
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Hairdresser (sorry, barber) to Carlot…..
“Mr Carlot, you seem to have lots of dandruff!…… Oh, its OK, its sawdust”!
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Why were we not told for 12 days that track, trace and isolate might have been abandoned?
http://eureferendum.com/s
“By the 16 March, contact tracing had been formally abandoned for four days, yet Hancock was preening himself in front of the House, boasting that: “Our actions have meant that the spread of the virus has been slowed in the UK”, whence he paid tribute to the officials of Public Health England and the NHS “for their exemplary approach to contact tracing and their work so far”.
At no point had Hancock actually told the House that contact tracing had been formally discontinued….
…on 24 March, there was a Covid-19 update from Hancock. ..
….an intervention from SNP MP Owen Thompson, who referred to the “Keeling Study”, which had been published by the government on 20 March, noting that contact tracing has the potential to control Covid-19, although ultimate success relied on the speed and efficacy with which suspect contacts could be contained.
With this in mind, Thompson directly addressed Hancock, asking him: “is the secretary of state ensuring that we have rapid and effective contact tracing? The review showed that such action could reduce the number of people infected by each case from 3.11 to 0.21, and that would be a significant step towards greater containment of the current outbreak”.
Then, and only then, can I find any formal admission from the government that contact tracing might have curtailed, without any suggestion that it had been abandoned. In response to Thompson, Hancock said:
The hon. Gentleman is right that contact tracing is incredibly important, and the amount of contact tracing that we have done is one of the reasons why we have managed to be behind other European countries in the curve. At this stage in the epidemic, it is not possible to have contact tracing for everybody, as we can when there is a very small number. We are looking at how we can do that better and enable individuals to contact trace, including by using technology.
This was twelve days after contact tracing had been completely abandoned, yet all Hancock could admit was that, “it is not possible to have contact tracing for everybody”. …
…..The House has never been properly (or at all) informed of the reasons why tracing was abandoned, which is doubtless why the Commons Science and Technology Committee is pursuing the issue so assiduously.”
http://eureferendum.com/
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