Uk Has Highest C-19 Fatales In Europe, Second Highest In The World

[Gromit]

We are a rich country, with a well funded health service.
What went wrong?

[jim360]

As a matter of pedantry, the Mersey Enquiry wasn't a public enquiry, at least in the modern understanding of the term. So not really relevant.

[Peter Pedant]

// > What went wrong? Nothing
Wow, sounds like Monty Python's Black Knight - "'tis but a scratch"...//

or waterloo ( 1815 for those of us who think it ended the Great War)
Ld Paget - my god they have blown my leg off!
Wellington to his brother ( for it is they) by god they have sir

wellington might have been asked what went wrong
and answered - count sir! I have two of them!

or the Marxist Liberator Mugabe beloved by ALL of AB
was asked by his first Min of agriculture ( white by the way ) -after the country had been rendered a desert economic basket case
" What went wrong" the min was on his way south
and Mugabe replied - I dont see that anything went wrong

[Peter Pedant]

//As a matter of pedantry, the Mersey Enquiry wasn't a public enquiry,//


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Wreck_Commissioner%27s_inquiry_into_the_sinking_of_the_RMS_Titanic

er yeah ok an inquiry isnt an inquiry
altho - - - I have to admit I dont know the rules of public inquiries in 1910. had power to apply an oath - which is a good sign

[Peter Pedant]

// 1912, Sydney Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, asked Lord Loreburn, the Lord Chancellor, to set up a commission of inquiry. The Lord Chancellor appointed Lord Mersey as the inquiry's President.[2]//

just to clarify
ah.... that is much better...

[zebo]

Darryl Huff, 'There are Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics', worth a read.

[Peter Pedant]

Huff wasnt the first
it is a quote from Disraeli innit ? 1870s