PPSh 41 w/ pair of Tokarevs - 7.62x25mm
“The question is not: who has the guns? But rather: what do the people with the guns do? 10,000 or 100,000 proletarians armed to the teeth are nothing if they place their trust in anything beside their own power to change the world. Otherwise, the next day, the next month or the next year, the power whose authority they recognise will take away the guns which they failed to use against it.”
The home secretary has said she is sorry if people feel there has been a failure to supply sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE) to NHS staff, as it was revealed that 19 UK health workers had died after contracting coronavirus.
Speaking at the daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing, Priti Patel was asked twice if she would apologise about the lack of PPE being provided to frontline workers. “I’m sorry if people feel that there have been failings,” she said. “I will be very, very clear about that.”
However, she added: “But at the same time, we are in an unprecedented global health pandemic right now. It is inevitable that the demand and the pressures on PPE and demand for PPE are going to be exponential. They are going to be incredibly high. And of course we are trying to address that as a government.”
Speaking to Sky News after the press conference, the shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said: “It wasn’t really an apology, was it? It was one of those half-hearted apologies where you use the word ‘sorry’ to give the impression that you are apologising but you are not actually in reality apologising.”
Patel’s comments came as the health secretary, Matt Hancock, said that 19 UK health workers had died after contracting the virus. He faced intense criticism on Friday after requesting that NHS staff do not overuse protective equipment and instead treat it as “a precious resource”.
Ashworth said: “We hear stories every day of healthcare workers on the frontline forced to cut up curtains to make their own PPE. We’ve heard stories of nurses in bin liners because they couldn’t get PPE, and those nurses have now come down with coronavirus. This really has been unacceptable, simply not good enough.”
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