A somewhat non-woke view of the world, but local authorities need to show some leadership and stop passing the buck back to central government. They get elected, relish (mostly) the local recognition, but now need to take some responsibility.
It does not matter whether you are Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Jewish etc - behaving with complete disdain for your fellow citizens is unacceptable. Allowing people attend a gathering with hundreds of others (wedding, funeral or birthday) is stupidity. Councils and police are utterly negligent in doing nothing.
Local councils know precisely where the local sweatshops are. They have turned a blind eye to their existence for years when they should have either insisted on improvements or shut them down. It is no wonder Leicester has the problems it has.
There is no point in central government delegating some actions to local authorities if they do nothing with it. We may get a vaccine next year, we may have improved treatment options for those infected, but the complacency of local and national governments now lockdown is being relaxed almost guarantees a winter beset with problems.
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