Posted by mattyovrio on 15/4/2020, 5:35 pm, in reply to "Re: Piers Morgan"
And here is another one for the fans of austerity and still deny it has killed people King also said austerity measures put in place in 2010 have cost lives:
I think it is really difficult because it goes right back to 2010, when the government came in with a very clear policy to reduce public spending across the board, including the NHS and I’m afraid these austerity measures did lead to the cutting back on the risk management programmes and clearly this also managed to cause problems with flooding across the UK.
We were much better prepared for better spending for the Environment Agency on that and equally unprepared for pandemics. For me, this is very upsetting because we had set this preparation process in place, as I say, back in 2006.
Asked by Ferrari if it is as simple to say that the austerity measures cost lives, King replied: “Absolutely. That is what I’m saying.”
On what the government needs to do, King said the answer was testing:
Until we get testing done on a very much wider scale, we’re not going to begin to manage this.