I heard Michael Marmot speak at a zoom seminar of the Dartington Social Research Unit in the summer of 2021. If you google his name you will find a number of references to his work on health inequalities. What he told us at the seminar was that the government had commissioned a report from him in 2011. They then ignored it and introduced an austerity policy instead. He did a further report in 2020 which highlighted things like the consequences of this policy on death ages and rates and reduction in life expectancy – after ten years of unnecessary austerity and pre covid. It is obvious that the quality of life of the elderly and vulnerable must also have suffered.

The amounts wasted and given to a variety of dubious organisations has shown all too clearly how money can be found when the government wants to.

What we also now know is that for a variety of reasons the impoverished groups are less likely to get vaccinations.

And yet the population in sufficient numbers supports a government which continues to dictate these policies.

And MPs who know the Prime Minister has lived down to his reputation over many years of being a born liar also continue to support him. It is all about saving their own skins and finances and nothing about promoting the wellbeing of the country.

I always thought that when an apple was rotten the whole of it should be discarded, not just a few of the smaller pips.